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Geaux Bears!
On Sunday the Bears begin their march toward the Super Bowl, a game they haven't reached in 20 years. Incidentally, that was Super Bowl XX--those NFL [...]
Hey, how about your own gap?
Minding the Gap, An Assessment of Racial Disparity In Metropolitan Chicago (PDF file) is a 2003 study from the Jane Addams Hull House Association.
Th [...]
Cabrini-Green tower falling near N. Town Village
One of the biggest complaints among residents of North Town Village, probably the best known mixed-income project in the redevelopment of the Chicago [...]
Slice of Chicago history dies with Berghoff
As YoChicago's Michael Austin pointed out in his Dec. 28 post, the legendary Berghoff Restaurant, 17 W Adams St, will close its doors on Feb. 28. It's [...]
The message from Central Lake View
I'm puzzled by the Central Lake View Merchants Association's street banners along Belmont and Sheffield. They're the only ones I've ever seen in Ch [...]
Old Town, Fit Town
Old Town must be the fittest neighborhood in the city with three full-service gym/spas within a couple of blocks of each other. Obviously there are en [...]
Battle of the highrises: Da Bears or Da Park?
If you were shopping around new highrise condo towers which vista would have the most appeal? A bird's-eye view of Soldier Field on game-day from high [...]
Watch your head near the Sears Tower
Steph, our woman in the West Loop, reports from downtown: Last night as I came off the Quincy el, I was puzzled to see a few big chunks of spattered s [...]
Best bakery name
Colorado can have its punny Baked in Telluride--a clever name for a bakery in the legendary ski town that is also known for its neo-hippies and their [...]
Curtain call for Gold Coast theater?
YoChicago's Hank from Ye Old Town Triangle reports: The Village Theatre is up for lease! Uh oh. The Village is one of the few remaining small movie h [...]
In Chicago, home is where the hearth is
The advent of home theater rooms is apparently helping the traditional, romantic fireplace to stage a comeback in the living room after being banishe [...]
Single-family homes slated for old Chicago iron company site
You know it now as the old site of the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, but soon hundreds of people might be calling the stretch of land at 105th Stre [...]
Park Boulevard ground-breaking
Yesterday was just another Thursday to most people in Chicago, but it was a pretty big deal for former residents of Stateway Gardens, the Chicago Hous [...]
Chicago woman Trumped on "The Apprentice"
We'd hire you Rebecca. We thought you were a class act on crutches. For those of you scratching your heads, YoChicago is referring to 23-year-old fina [...]
The Air & Baseball Show?
The venerable Studs Terkel, lucid and feisty as ever at 93, spoke to a jam-packed room full of admirers at The Book Cellar in Lincoln Square on Thursd [...]
North Town Park gets the nod
If you thought the creation of North Town Village, which replaced the former Cabrini-Green public housing development, was a staggering transformation [...]
Monster movie premiere!
Frightening! Spine-Tingling! Tonight only! They'll be rolling out the red carpet in Wrigleyville tonight at 8 p.m. when writer/director Ben Grinnell o [...]
Park Boulevard mixed-income development to break ground
The mixed-income development Park Boulevard will break ground at West 35th Street near South Federal Street, on Thursday, the latest project in the ci [...]
Pilsen protests condos planned for TIF
Back in 1998, proponents of a tax-increment financing district in Pilsen were almost condescending as they tried to sell it to neighborhood residents [...]
Dog days in Chicago highrises
Just how pet-friendly can a highrise condo be? Dog-ownership is common in highrise-happy neighborhoods like the South Loop and developers often tout d [...]