Zoning change for dorm proposal deferred today

07/16/2009 2:27 PM

Members of the city council's Committee on Zoning deferred an application this morning to change the zoning underlying a parking lot at Van Buren and Wabash. A partnership of developers wants the change to eventually construct a 37-story, 1,249-bed student dorm. Read more...

Capital bill paid for by video gambling signed

07/14/2009

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn put his John Hancock on a $31 billion dollar capital bill Monday with the promise of "creating and retaining" 439,000 job across the state. A look at the local impact.
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Hinz: Museum move in trouble

07/13/2009

Veteran Crain's Business columnist Greg Hinz is reporting the Chicago Children's Museum's planned move to Grant Park is in trouble. The museum says it is moving forward.
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For my bikers, there's something different

I miss the quietude of their night

07/13/2009

It used to be the bikers rode through my neighborhood in the middle of a dark and quiet night. Now things are a little louder and brighter Read More...

Tabing and Tamarin testify

07/12/2009 2:06 PM

Day two in the Congress Hotel's suit against 2nd Ward Ald. Robert Fioretti included testimony from Ty Tabing, executive director of the Chicago Loop Alliance, and Henry Tamarin, president of Unite Here Local 1.
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Near West man charged in homicide of his mother

07/11/2009 9:42 AM

The Cook County State's Attorney is charging James Atkins, 51, of the 1300 block of W. 14th St., with murdering his 82-year-old mother on July 8. Read more...

Jubeh on the stand

07/10/2009 5:47 PM

Hanah Jubeh was the last witness called by Congress attorneys on the first day of the trial stemming out of the hotel's suit against 2nd Ward Alderman Robert Fioretti. Jubeh finished her testimony on July 9. Read more...

Rendering of the winning Burnham design

07/10/2009

David Woodhouse Architects has been selected as the winner of the Daniel Burnham Memorial Design Competition.
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'It didn't need my signature'

07/10/2009

Ald. Fioretti testified on day one in the Congress v. Fioretti trial that permits for sidewalk cafes don't necessarily need an alderman's signature.
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Day two of Cong. v. Fioretti

07/09/2009 8:07 PM

A quick run-down on what happened today in Judge Guzman's court room in the Congress Hotel's suit against 2nd Ward Ald. Robert Fioretti.
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