TIF talk at 2016 forum
Excepting Village, no use of tax increment financing, bid boss promises
08/05/2009
Chicago 2016 officials found a receptive audience among the 40 or so people who gathered at First Baptist Congregational Church, 1613 W. Washington, Tuesday evening for the 27th Ward meeting about an Olympic Games here. Read more...
Who's up, who's down and who's holding steady
08/05/2009
In this week's Chicago Journal, we raid the research division of Chicago Public Schools to compare how three grades of students fared on an important standardized test at various schools on the Near West and Near South sides. Read more...
Don't accept rides from strangers
08/05/2009
A man was leaving a nightclub located at Division and Rush July 30 at 4:35 a.m. when he was approached by a man offering a ride home. The clubber refused, but the man in the vehicle produced a badge and said, "I am a cop. Now get in the f------ car." Read more...
Your Lolla photos?
08/05/2009
Going on your usual Grant Park constitutional this weekend? Snap a few shots of the Lollapa-looza festival in Grant Park. And send your best shots our way: mm@chicagojournal.com.
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Affordability is drawing in first-time homebuyers
08/05/2009
After three years of tumbling home values, the price is finally right, and Chicago-area buyers, many of them jumping into the real estate market for the first time, are beginning to snap up the bargains. Read more...
Police beat: Crime is down citywide. But that's only part of the story
08/05/2009
Comparing the first six months of 2008 with the first six months of 2009 shows that the incidence of serious crime - what the police department categorizes as "index crime" - fell 8.6 percent. Read more...
The last word
Unless a buyer emerges, Prairie Avenue Books will close
07/29/2009
Prairie Avenue Books, a retail anchor on South Wabash Avenue and touchstone institution for architects in Chicago and around the globe, will close this September unless a buyer scoops up the entire business from longtime owners Marilyn and Wilbert Hasbrouck. Read More...
Ire over container fee
Town home owners are disproportionately impacted
07/29/2009
Few were happy when the city council, at the behest of the Daley administration, agreed last year to slap a series of fees on the receptacles waste haulers provide to the businesses, condo boards and town home associations that hire them for garbage removal. Read More...
Costco inching forward
Questions about vertiport, contracting
07/29/2009
A Costco envisioned for a 16-acre parcel in the Illinois Medical District faces a complex approval process that likely means any ribbon cutting is at least two years away, representatives from the retailing behemoth said at a hearing last week. Read more...
Restructured
Chicagoans try to modify their mortgages at McCormick Placetheir
07/29/2009
Christoria King could not stop smiling. After her adjustable rate mortgage jumped from 8.25 percent to more than 12 percent over the past few years, King, a police officer who patrols in the South Loop, was forking over $2,689 a month for her home, depleting her savings to keep up with payments. Read more...