Got a favorite Chicago cabbie?

02/23/2011

Ever had a great ride in a taxi? A guy who regaled you with his tales of urban heroism or just let you put on your favorite radio station? The City of Chicago wants to know about it.
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Molotov Cocktail in the South Loop

02/23/2011

At three in the morning on Feb. 16, a resident of the 1200 block of S. Federal St. said she was asleep in her bedroom when a loud noise woke her up. She sat and looked around, but not seeing anything unusual went back to sleep.
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Art of the state

20 years after the Berlin Wall, dissident artists display rebellious works

02/23/2011

The concept of struggling for one’s art is subjective. Facing negative criticism and misunderstanding, sacrificing a day job and a nice apartment for self-imposed relative poverty — this is what passes for the struggles of the contemporary Western artist.
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Fioretti gets 2

'There's going to be a lot of changes in the city council, and I will have a voice in it'

02/23/2011

After a long campaign for re-election, in which he was challenged by five candidates looking to knock him from his post as 2nd Ward alderman while he battled tonsil cancer, voters re-elected incumbent Bob Fioretti to a second term on Tuesday.
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Solis, Morfin head to runoff in 25th Ward

Incumbent Solis 1 percent shy of victory

02/23/2011

Incumbent Ald. Danny Solis couldn’t quite muster 50 percent of the vote in his 25th Ward in Tuesday night’s election, and is now heading to an April runoff with his 2007 foe Cuahutemoc Morfin.
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Dowell rolls in 3rd Ward

Incumbent avoids trouble with former alderman's daughter

02/23/2011

Ald. Pat Dowell won a second term as leader of the 3rd Ward Tuesday night in convincing fashion, clobbering former Ald. Dorothy Tillman’s daughter Ebony with more than two-thirds of the vote.
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Burnett cruises in 27th Ward

'We're going to see how tough Rahm is'

02/23/2011

Incumbent Ald. Walter Burnett won his fifth term as 27th Ward’s city council member on Tuesday, and by no small margin. He walloped his two challengers, Tom Courtney and GeVonna Fassett, by taking in 71 percent of the vote to their respective 23 and 7 percent tallies.
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CPS evaluates options for overcrowded, high performing South Loop School

Bursting at the seams

02/16/2011

There was good news and bad news at the South Loop Elementary school council’s biannual progress update last Wednesday. The good news is that students have scored impressively on an array of state math and reading standardized tests. The bad news is that school enrollment continues to increase and Chicago Public Schools has yet to devise a long-term plan to deal with the jump in South Loop’s student population.
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Outgrowing its Fulton Street brewery, Goose Island outsourcing two beers

Brewing up change

02/16/2011

Web Extra! Slideshow
Chicago’s biggest craft beer producer, Goose Island, is outgrowing its britches on the Near West Side. Fighting to keep up with growing demand as the craft beer market in the United States explodes, while still innovating and brewing new beverages, the company has reached a deal to outsource two of its beers to a brewery in New Hampshire.
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27th Ward candidates hope to work with businesses

02/16/2011

As Election Day approaches next Tuesday, Chicago Journal is gathering surveys from candidates for alderman in the West and South Loop neighborhoods to help our readers make better decisions about their elected officials. We conclude this week with 27th Ward candidates below. They have been edited significantly to fit.
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