Introducing Art Department

05/20/2009

This week Chicago Journal debuts Art Department, a new column by Chicago editor and writer Daniel Tucker. We’ve charged Tucker with taking a critical look at West Loop, South Loop and Near West Side art galleries, museums and exhibitions, and telling us about the artists and projects they showcase. Read More...

What about that Web site?

05/20/2009

It’s new. And seemingly improved — lots more comments are coming in about stories and editorials and even the blog entries. But how do you navigate it? A couple of readers have asked.
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Condo dwellers talk safety law implementation

05/13/2009

The Life Safety & High-Rise Ordinance, passed in 2004, requires a pool of pre-1975 commercial and residential high-rise buildings in Chicago to be brought up to an amended fire safety code by 2017. According to the city’s Web site, approximately 200 commercial and 1,100 residential buildings are obligated to make improvements. Read more...

Meetings where we sit in rooms and auditoriums and halls and talk

05/13/2009

Here they are again — upcoming community meetings over the next two weeks: Read more...

A manifestly good time with a touch of the dystopian

05/06/2009

This year’s Manifest, an annual art festival put on by the Columbia College community on S, Wabash Ave. in the South Loop, promises to be a doozy. The party goes down May 15, with events all day, starting at 9 a.m. Read More...

Park advocacy group awarded

05/06/2009

Save Grant Park, the citizen's group fighting the Chicago Children's Museum's proposed move to the north end of the iconic downtown park, has been awarded the 2009 Harold Washington Award by the Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization. Read more...

Rush doc gets nod in HBO doc film

05/06/2009

Dr. David Bennett, director of Rush University Medical Center's Alzheimer's Disease Center, will appear in the upcoming HBO documentary The Alzheimer's Project. The documentary, scheduled for broadcast on HBO and at HBO.com from Sunday, May 10, to Tuesday, May 12, spotlights the disease and its affect on millions of sufferers and their families. Read more...

Meetings you might want to attend

05/06/2009

Issues that loom large on the Near West and Near South sides will be discussed — debated? screamed about? — in upcoming meetings over the next two weeks: Read more...

By the time this paper hits the streets ...

05/06/2009

Chicago Journal’s new Web site will be online. Please do check it out. In addition to a stylish visual format that will make for easier navigation, the site will offer two new blogs: Chicago Journal editor Micah Maidenberg will write the Near Loop Wire while Bonnie McGrath, a longtime contributor to the paper, will write a blog called South Loop Observer. Read more...