Summer Dance ends this year's program with a big swing in Grant Park

Last dance

09/01/2010

The dance day started Sunday in Grant Park with a couple of hundred people working out the steps for East Coast Swing as instructors from the Fred Astaire Dance Studio demonstrated from the stage.
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Aldermen ask CPS for magnet school access

Expanded Jackson program touted as solution to neighborhood complaints

09/01/2010

Responding to community wishes, two Chicago aldermen last week recommended that Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman expand the Andrew Jackson Language Academy to address claims of a poor choice in neighborhood schools by some residents in areas of the 2nd and 25th wards.
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Chicago entrepreneur makes a go in the online coupon business

Small-scale success

09/01/2010

It’s hard to image that a desire for inexpensive sushi and hairdos would drive a small business to success by topping electronic coupon searches in the South Loop. But one neighborhood entrepreneur is linking urban dwellers with the deals they seek.
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Swim. Bike. Run.

09/01/2010

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Thousands battled 90 degree temperatures to compete in the Chicago Triathlon along the shores of Lake Michigan on Sunday. A wave of swimmers dot the shore as they complete the two mile swim.
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Thousands beefing up business skills in Chicago MBA programs ... before economic recovery beings

Waiting for change

09/01/2010

If you are planning to take the GMAT, or Graduate Management Admission Test, in order to join over 18,000 MBA students in Chicago who are beefing up their skills for a rough job market, you may want to reconsider – for the sake of the economy.
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Condo sales up

New construction running ahead of 2009

09/01/2010

As bleak as Chicago’s new-construction condominium market looks, there are a few rays of sunshine filtering through the gloom, real estate analysts say.
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Parents: Smyth not good enough

Issues of poor performance at neighborhood school drive parents’ request for expanded choice

08/25/2010

A grumble is rising in certain areas of the University Village among parents with children assigned to the John M. Smyth Elementary School. As families with school-age children continue to move into the redeveloped South Loop, school space is becoming scarce at nearby magnet schools.
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Park expands life in West Loop

Years in the making, Adams and Sangamon Park opens

08/25/2010

With some old-school fanfare of speeches, a Boy Scout color guard and a few brass instruments, Adams and Sangamon Park officially opened Saturday and, in doing so, added more open space to the West Loop.
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Strike called off

Local 73 says UIC moved a little closer to tentative agreement

08/25/2010

With the largest labor strike of the Obama presidency days away, University of Illinois-Chicago leadership late last week budged from its zero-pay-increase stance and closer to a tentative agreement with Local 73 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
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Church moving to new home

Five-year lease with future options expected to expand the South Loop Community Church

08/25/2010

Sunday will be the last time 70 parishioners of South Loop Community Church settle into their seats at the Sherwood Auditorium in the 1300 block of South Michigan Avenue — a tight fit for their gathering. The temporary Sunday service quarters, used for nine years, will soon be left behind for life in a more inclusive whole-church space on South State Street.
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