From the archives: Fred Anderson
04/15/2010 10:00 AM
Chicago Journal editor Micah Maidenberg is on vacation this week. We'll be posting a few stories from the Chicago Journal archives until he returns. First up: A profile of Fred Anderson, the jazz musician and impresario behind the Velvet Lounge.
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South Loop meets Paleolithic
and a little sandwich at Hackney's did it
04/10/2010
Who would ever have thought that a typical little jaunt in the South Loop would bind the present to the past...about 27,000 years Read More...
Restaurant round-up
04/09/2010 2:36 PM
Comings and goings in the West Loop and South Loop. Click for a round-up of recent neighborhood restaurant news.
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Pete's heads into land-use approval process
04/08/2010 4:30 PM
Pete's Fresh Market is officially seeking the land use and zoning permissions it needs to open a new store at the southeast corner of Madison and Western. Read more...
Award-winning author at Whitney Young H.S.
04/08/2010 2:38 PM
Chicago Journal contributing reporter Melissa Albert recently reviewed author and Whitney Young High School teacher Brigid Pasulka's novel A Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True. Read more...
Filming in the South Loop
04/08/2010
Chicago Journal columnist and blogger has a new post up about running across filming in the South Loop, near 9th and State. Later, the crews had their cameras and lights out at 14th and State.
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Moviemaking everywhere
and then some
04/07/2010
Everywhere I went tonight I saw them filming. Odd scenes of a surreal life in the South Loop Read More...
The raccoon public health threat
04/06/2010
Next week, the city council's health committee is set to discuss a resolution introduced by Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd) about the public health threat posed by the proliferation of raccoons in Chicago.
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Book group goes viral
My book club is having its 15 minutes
04/03/2010
This morning my book club hit the streets in the morning paper--and is on the internet, too. Will it change our lives forever? Read More...
Nifty census map shows lagging response rate
04/01/2010
The Tribune has published an interactive map showing local response rates to mailed census forms. How are neighborhoods covered by Chicago Journal doing?
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