- Landmark status closer for historic strip Chicago Journal
- Humboldt Park to get mini Wrigley Field Sun-Times
- Daley stands by $900M Olympics cost Trib
- Panel OKs free rides for seniors Sun-Times
- Can Kimball Hill save itself? Daily Herald
- Near West Side target of new program Chicago Journal
- City to authorize hotel expansion Sun-Times
- Transit funding and real estate Chicago Mag
- Group struggles with zoning changes Chicago Journal
- Historic Tinley Park building to be razed Southtown Star
- Aurora home aims to lift up refugees Trib
- ‘Mudrooms’ grow in size and importance Evanston Review
- Troubles plague Trump’s NYC tower AP (via Yahoo!)
- Merrill Lynch posts record quarterly loss AP (via Trib)
- 2007 home construction plunged 25% AP (via Trib)
Cultural=history footnote: That “Wieboldt’s” store on Milwaukee was given the name “Nieboldt’s” in Nelson Algren’s “The Man With The Golden Arm.” This is the location of a bungled shop-lifting attempt by Frankie Machine and his sidekick Sparrow.