City soup

03/10/2010

Lighting illuminated the El stop at Polk and State streets Monday night after a San-Francisco-like fog descended on Printers Row.
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A Web site targeting you-know-what

03/10/2010

It all started with a walk around the neighborhood. Douglas Freymann, who’s lived in the South Loop for the past 13 years, was taking his pooches for a stroll Jan. 3. During that trip he noticed what he described in an e-mail he sent later that day as five different orphans. Five separate orphaned dog droppings, to be specific.
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Obscene crime scene

03/10/2010

A woman reported to police that when she returned home to her residence in the 700 block of W. Jackson March 8 at 9:30 a.m. she found that someone had placed a picture of a couple having sexual intercourse on her front door. Police told her to notify them if the victim saw any more suspicious activity.
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Healthy eats

Dissatisfied with after son’s food in the South Loop, couple starts company

03/10/2010

Two years ago, husband and wife team Jason Weedon and Danielle Hrzic investigated their son’s lunch menu at his private preschool in the South Loop and were disappointed with what they saw. They wanted something better, and decided to intervene.
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Buyer sought for firehouse

03/10/2010

The City of Chicago is seeking a buyer for an empty fire station at 1123 W. Roosevelt. Built in 1873, the structure has been empty since the summer of 2008, when the fire department’s Engine Company 18 moved out of the building and into a new, modern station at 1360 S. Blue Island.
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Say hello to Lyuba

A 42,000-year-old baby arrives at the Field Museum

03/10/2010

Lyuba, the best-preserved mammoth calf ever discovered, is the star of the Field Museum's latest exhibit, "Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age," which opened earlier this month. The exhibit transports visitors back to the Ice Age to get a sense of how these huge extinct creatures lived, thrived and eventually died.

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Generating friction in the Prairie District

Residents fed up with generators’ noise

03/10/2010

Debra Seger has owned the Wheeler Mansion, a graceful throwback to the Prairie Avenue Historic District's glory days at 2020 S. Calumet, for the last 14 years. Now a bed and breakfast, Seger says she's lost thousands of dollars each year from angry patrons demanding a refund because of the generator noise emanating from a nearby data center owned by Digital Realty. Read more...

UIC swims in fiscal morass

Faculty, taking furlough days, rally for Near West Side institution

03/10/2010

Hundreds of furloughed University of Illinois-Chicago professors and students demanded that state government pay the $485 million it owes the University of Illinois system and prioritize higher education in next year's budget at a press conference on Monday.
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Pilsen's muse

A cantina where art and politics, music and culture flow freely

03/10/2010

Some nights Decima Musa, a bar and restaurant at the corner of 19th Street and Loomis in Pilsen, is calm and quiet, akin to a living room. Other nights the air vibrates with clinking beer bottles and live music. Read More...

Refi at Sky 55

Rental market forces 'tremendous concessions' at South Loop building

03/03/2010

The battered economy has a prominent development group seeking permission to restructure the financing behind Sky 55, a glassy, 40-story tower that was one of the first rental buildings to go up in the South Loop during the boom years.
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