For HIV/AIDS patients, a new hospital-team effort
09/09/2009
Medical researchers from Rush University Medical Center, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Cook County Health and Hospital System will collaborate on a new research into the prevention, detection and treatment of HIV and AIDS. Read more...
Speaking of hospitals
09/09/2009
Mercy Hospital is planning to build out 14,000 square feet for a medical center on the first floor a 48-unit mixed-income building scheduled to be built as part of the next phase of Oakwood Shores, the development taking the place of the now-demolished Madden and Darrow public housing complexes. Read more...
And speaking of public housing
09/09/2009
Business and Professional People for the Public Interest’s new report about the Chicago Housing Authority’s Plan for Transformation says that far too many public housing families live in environments virtually identical to those that triggered the $1.6 billion public housing overhaul in 1999. Read more...
Signs of the times
Buildings department fines West Loop artist $20,000, then backs off
09/02/2009
Kathy Kozan makes her living transforming blank spaces - bank lobbies, restaurants, hospitals, other institutions - into art. The practice thus made the two-story brick façade on the east side of her building at 808 W. Lake an irresistible target. Read More...
Olympian oversight
Competing proposals with less than a month before '16 decision
09/02/2009
Should Chicago be chosen Oct. 2 to host the 2016 Olympics, the city will sign the International Olympic Committee's standard host city contract, which would require taxpayers to assume unlimited financial liability for unexpected costs. Read more...
Festa di Tutti i Santi
09/02/2009
The "Feast of all the Saints" procession traveled through the Near West Side on Sunday, featuring at least 10 different saints societies.
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Lake Street remake
Morgan el project gets federal help, intersection to be cleared of columns
09/02/2009
A new el station in the West Loop is getting some help from the ultimate infrastructure funder: Uncle Sam. The City of Chicago will use $8 million in federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality funds to help pay for the planned Morgan and Lake station, which would serve riders on the Green and Pink lines. Read More...
Buying Chicago history
Bidders and onlookers in Rosemont, where the old post office was sold
09/02/2009
Through a stately white lobby of glass and marble, at the end of the hallway that splits the Louvre Ballroom wing of the Hotel Intercontinental O’Hare in suburban Rosemont, a massive, $3,875 fine art print of Fidel Castro gazed from a distance at the back’s of men lining the hallway. Read More...
Insurance man, insurance plan
Commitment to buy policies for budget, venues, Village, Ryan says
09/02/2009
Private donations would fund the Olympic bid committee’s purchase of insurance policies designed to guard against overruns and unanticipated costs, Pat Ryan, chairman of Chicago 2016 and an insurance magnate himself, told aldermen Tuesday. Read more...
Near West stick-up
09/02/2009
Three men were standing on the sidewalk in the 1000 block of W. Maxwell Aug. 26 at 6:30 p.m. when another man wearing a royal blue baseball cap and a forest green T-shirt pointed a blue steel handgun at them and asked "What's in your pockets." Read more...