Police station construction gears up

06/16/2010

The Public Building Commission has scheduled a meeting June 17 for firms interested in bidding to put up the new 12th District police station, a 44,000-square-foot structure.
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3rd Ward infrastructure meeting

06/16/2010

Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd) will hold a town hall meeting focused on infrastructure improvements slated for her ward this Thursday, June 17, at 6:30 p.m. at the Illinois College of Optometry building, 3240 S. Indiana.
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Landmark status for Viceroy

06/16/2010

Aldermen approved official historic landmark status for the Viceroy Hotel, 1519-21 W. Warren, at the May 12 council meeting. The building, which was finished in 1930, is studded with terra cotta ornamentation on its façade.
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Openings and closings

06/16/2010

Sometimes retail and restaurant news comes in crashing waves, and this appears to be one of those times. Noted, therefore, are the following fairly recent openings and closings on the local food-and-drink scene.
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On our blogs ...

06/16/2010

If you missed browsing through ChicagoJournal.com’s blogs this week, you missed a rundown of the 26th annual Printers Row Lit Fest, a question for South Loop developers and documents pertaining to a potential parking lot.
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Unfurling the black umbrellas

Flash mobbers silently protest at BP namesake in Millennium Park

06/16/2010

BP Bridge, which connects Millennium Park to Daley Bicentennial Plaza, was eerily quiet a bit after the noon hour last Friday, despite the estimated two million fans who thronged nearby downtown streets, cheering the Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup win.
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Gardens are growing

Two new green spaces inaugurated in early June

06/09/2010

As a trickle of rain turned into a downpour last Saturday morning, workers from the GreenCorps brigade unloaded plants, short hedge shrubs and flowers at a small parcel at the southeast corner of Adams and Hamilton, their yellow slickers allowing them a measure of protection from the intensifying weather.
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Blue Carts everywhere. Someday.

At council hearing, few details about recycling program expansion

06/09/2010

Chicagoans included in the city's Blue Cart recycling program get their cardboard and paper, their empty bottles and aluminum cans picked up by city sanitation workers, who cart the load off.
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23-year-old killed

Neighbors worry as Napoleon Gilmore falls to gunfire

06/09/2010

Twenty-three-year old Napoleon Gilmore was shot and killed on the Near West Side last week, apparently during a dice game gone awry. A Chicago Police Department spokesman said officers found Gilmore unresponsive in the 1300 block of W. Washburne with a single shot in his chest June 3 at approximately 2 p.m.
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Trading commerce for art

In the face of retail vacancies, Pop-Up Art Loop creates temporary galleries

06/09/2010

Inside a small retail space at the corner of State and Adams stands an unexpected array of sculptures. Intricate cardboard mock-ups of a lion’s head, a hovering hawk with prickly brown and orange feathers and a sitting room with a fireplace, each made mostly from old Nike shoeboxes have, for the time being, replaced the merchandise, customers and employees hoped for in the Loop storefront.
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