Back to school, again

Classes resume following end of teacher’s strike this week

09/19/2012

More than 350,000 Chicago Public School students returned to their classrooms Wednesday after the Chicago Teachers’ Union ended its eight-day strike on Tuesday.
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St. Ignatius' secret garden showcases past

Prep school gives new purpose to old architecture

09/19/2012

Even at a casual glance, St. Ignatius College Prep is a striking structure. Elegant and elaborately detailed, the campus at 1076 W. Roosevelt Road harkens back prestigious European colleges. The fact that it towers high above most of the buildings for several blocks in each direction helps accentuate it even further.
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Boozy restaurant heist

09/19/2012

A supervisor arriving at the Park Grill Plaza at Millenium Park restaurant at 5:18 a.m. Monday, Sept. 17 observed four men running out of the restaurant at 11 N. Michigan Ave., taking 75 bottles of alcohol and a sandwich.
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Second City backs up CPS kids

Training center offered free improv, sketch-writing classes during strike

09/19/2012

Second City, one of the city’s most proven developers of brilliant young comedic minds, stepped up to the plate to help out during the strike. Like many other organizations, they were simply hoping to help out in a time of need for many Chicagoans.
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North Grant Park construction prep begins

Daley Bicentennial field house closed Saturday, fencing likely to be up by Oct. 1

09/19/2012

The Chicago Park District shut down North Grant Park field house last weekend, kicking off a three-year process that will tear up what’s now Daley Bicentennial Plaza and replace it with Maggie Daley Park.
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West Loop man preps racers for October's Chicago Marathon

Runner who has completed 84 marathons lends a hand to others

09/19/2012

Brendan Cournane has done a lot of running. The West Loop resident has run 84 marathons, including races in all 50 states of the U.S. He’s closing in on finishing a race on every continent, too.
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Local schools cope with strike

As teachers march outside, kids still in building at Smyth, South Loop

09/12/2012

The majority of public schools around the city are closed at least through Wednesday (with the exception of charters), but South Loop Elementary is one of the few buildings being kept open as part of CPS’ Children First plan.
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Muralists hope to repaint Pilsen

Ald. Danny Solis paying to remake 1.5 mile stretch of 16th Street

09/12/2012

Over the decades, some railroad tracks have decayed and begun to crumble. They’ve also become easy targets for graffiti — both innocent and gang related. So around the area, community groups and local officials have found a solution: Murals. You can find them covering the sides of train tracks from Oak Park to Hyde Park and Rogers Park, gussying up walls all over the city and suburbs.
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Jones Prep plan for local kids detailed

Neighborhood students will take one special class, all others same as selective enrollment

09/12/2012

Two years after Chicago Public Schools officials signed off on plans for a new Jones College Prep in the South Loop, the school’s principal revealed details of one of the new building’s most notable features: a neighborhood component.

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Partygoers beat 73-year-old

Chicago police reports - 1st District

09/12/2012

A 73-year-old man was beaten by as many as four offenders Friday, Sept. 7 after he asked partygoers in a condo building in the 900 block of South Clark Street to “tone down” the noise in the building at 11:30 p.m.
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