Loft walk is back
09/16/2009
The community organization South Loop Neighbors is bringing back its annual loft walk after canceling the event last year as the economy tanked and neighbors focused their energies elsewhere. Read More...
Dump e-waste responsibly at UIC
09/16/2009
So you've got a giant old computer screen in your closet, three broken cellular phones and a Sega video game system that hasn’t worked since 1997. Saturday's your chance to safely rid yourself of the old electronic devices, at an event sponsored by the University of Illinois-Chicago. Read More...
Thanks to our summer interns
09/16/2009
A sincere thank you goes out to Danny Fenster and Kelly Rix, two Columbia College journalism students who interned this summer for Chicago Journal and its sister paper Skyline. Read more...
Ephemeral
Aspiring architects imagine temporary Prairie Avenues
09/09/2009
Near the end of Arthur Meeker’s 1949 novel Prairie Avenue, two
characters arrive for one of the street’s famous balls. Novelties
abound as Chicago’s wealthy entered the home for the farewell party.
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Going once, going twice
Foreclosure auctions reflect continued housing market pain
09/09/2009
At 11 a.m. most mornings in Chicago, a group of mostly middle-aged men rush into a tiny, crowded room in a Madison Street high-rise building in the heart of the Loop. The uniform is Polo shirts, khakis and sneakers. Many have just come from the Cook County Sheriff’s foreclosure sale a few blocks away on Wacker Drive. Read more...
Fioretti vows to stall dormitory
Alderman says developers need binding commitment from a school
09/09/2009
Kargil Development, known for its residential buildings throughout the South Loop, received the go-ahead Tuesday to purchase 1136-40 S. Wabash from the city of Chicago for $8 million. The developers envision a 287-foot dormitory tower for the land, providing 420 two-bedroom suites and 20 resident assistant rooms for a total occupancy of 860 university students. Read More...
United monies approved
From 'burbs to city with help from taxpayers
09/09/2009
An injection of $35 million in city subsidies will lure at least 2,500 United Airlines employees from Elk Grove Village to one of the Loop’s signature buildings. Read more...
Hotel hit
09/09/2009
A was man walking into his hotel in the 100 block of N. Wacker Aug. 27 at 5:55 p.m. when another man approached him from behind and struck him in the shoulder. Police observed the incident, detained the man and transported him to the 1st District police station. Read more...
Roeder on post office buyer
09/09/2009
The Sun-Times business columnist David Roeder has sources telling him that it was Bill Davies, an British businessman thought to live in Monaco, who won the bid for the $40 million empty Loop post office at 433 W. Van Buren. Read More...
Lectures feature pols
09/09/2009
The University of Illinois at Chicago’s Future of Chicago lecture series this year features a number of politicians speaking about the public bodies they are members of. Read more...