Track Chicago's snowplows

City's new website lets you watch as they work

01/12/2012 4:25 PM

The city’s first major snowfall is finally upon us, and that means snowplows are out in force. According to a press release from the city’s streets and sanitation department, all 278 of the city’s snowplows are out scraping the roads for rush hour.
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Johnson Publishing finds new home, clearing way for Columbia

Library, center for black music research to take over building

01/11/2012 2:28 PM

Johnson Publishing Co., the publisher of black-focused magazines Ebony and Jet, has found a new home in the Loop in the Borg-Warner Building, at 200 S. Michigan Ave.
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Bugs in the window

or something else

01/11/2012

I've seen some odd things in the windows at the Congress Hotel, but fuzzy red bugs left me pretty perplexed Read More...

The new is already kind of old at the Adler

and I've seen it twice just to make sure

01/05/2012

I was trepidatious when they got rid of the old Zeiss projector at the Adler and I think my fears weren't so unfounded. Read More...

West Loop restaurant One Sixtyblue closing this weekend

Michael Jordan-owned restaurant to reopen in spring with new concept

01/04/2012 6:38 PM

One Sixtyblue, the West Loop restaurant co-owned by Michael Jordan, announced Wednesday evening that they’re closing their doors after this Saturday, Jan. 7.
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New Rush Hospital opens for business this weekend

Hospital CEO talks logistics of moving emergency room patients

01/04/2012

After years of construction and months of training and tours, Rush University Medical Center’s new building will finally start serving patients this weekend.
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NYE Redux

New Year's Eve's new tradition for us girls in the South Loop

01/02/2012

I used to leave the neighborhood on NYE, or like a lot of people--just stay home. But now it seems like I am in on a South Loop tradition. Read More...

A hearty welcome from one South Loop eatery to another

It's nice that the foodies in the South Loop like each other

12/29/2011

Panozzo's welcomed Acadia to the neighborhood by eating there and posting a glowing "review" on its Facebook page Read More...

Two arrested for shooting at Roosevelt el platform

Teens, 16 and 14 years old, charged in 21-year-old's shooting

12/29/2011 5:10 PM

Two teenage boys have been arrested for the shooting of a 21-year-old man at the Roosevelt Green and Orange Line el station Monday night.
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Judge rejects plan for massive development near McCormick Place, Motor Row

Future in question; property owners must file new plan by January 19

12/28/2011

A federal bankruptcy court judge has smacked down a bankruptcy plan for a massive proposed development known as Prairie Blocks near McCormick Place and Motor Row.
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