Postal service honors Ebony and Jet publisher with stamp

Black Heritage series salutes John H. Johnson with 'Forever Stamp'

02/01/2012

John H. Johnson was a man who beat the odds. He turned a $500 loan on his mother's living room furniture into a multi-million dollar publishing empire that birth Ebony and Jet Magazines. He outfoxed Chicago's strict code of segregation when he became the first black person to own a skyscraper on Michigan Avenue.
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Going public

National Public Housing Museum design nears completion

02/01/2012

The reports of the National Public Housing Museum’s death have been greatly exaggerated. And, if everything goes according to plan, the museum would be fully open to the public by 2013.
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Chicago Bears owners: keep Crane High School open

Two weeks before giving school $20,000, McCaskeys ask schools chief to respect George Halas' alma mater

02/01/2012

The family that owns the Chicago Bears is joining the fight to save the Near West Side's Crane High School, lobbying Chicago’s schools chief to keep Bears founder George Halas' alma mater open. Read More...

Chicago Park District reveals final plans for North Grant Park redo

Skate park, ice skating ribbon, climbing wall highlight features at new park

01/27/2012

The far north end of Grant Park is set to be completely torn up next fall, and this week the Chicago Park District unveiled the final plans for the massive rebuild. The new park will replace the rigidly structured, concrete-heavy Richard J. Daley Bicentennial Plaza with a more pastoral park featuring winding paths connecting wide lawns and hills with active areas.
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Meet the new guy

A look back at new South Loop Ald. Will Burns' record, and how he got here

01/25/2012

Ald. Will Burns isn’t a complete stranger to South Loop. Between 2008 and 2010, he represented the 26th District in the Illinois General Assembly, a district that stretched from Gold Coast to South Shore neighborhoods, moving through South Loop along the thin sliver of land east of Michigan Avenue. But state representatives don’t have nearly the same impact on Chicagoans’ day-to-day lives as aldermen. And since the recent ward remap put Burns’ 4th Ward into the parts of South Loop, Burns has became more relevant than ever before.
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Crane teachers, activists unveil turnaround plan

With clock ticking on phase-out vote, no indication CPS is listening

01/25/2012

A coalition of Crane teachers, students, parents and Near West Side community activists unveiled a plan Friday night to turn around the 109-year-old high school at 2245 W. Jackson Blvd., focusing on adding programming and services to the school.
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City steps up nuisance business laws

New amendment expands law beyond late-night operators, wipes out signature requirements

01/25/2012

The city is changing how it reviews operating licenses for businesses that get complaints from neighbors. Last week, the city council pushed through a series of amendments aimed at tightening Chicago’s deleterious impact and public nuisance ordinance — a set of regulations that give residents in Chicago a platform for “addressing negative quality of life and public safety concerns in their neighborhoods” caused by new liquor license applicants or existing liquor establishments.
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Still developing

Former Alderman Ted Mazola forging through recession in University Village, South Loop

01/25/2012

Ted Mazola has a booming voice, an easy laugh, and a philanthropic vision for the vibrant, charming and diversified University Village neighborhood he has always called home. In the area where he lives and does business, the affable 62-year-old has been a one-term alderman of the 1st Ward, co-founder of the University Village Association, a driving force behind the rejuvenation of Maxwell Street and a board member of the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind.
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Ward remap passes

2nd Ward blown up, banished to North Side, but Fioretti promises to stick around

01/25/2012

Bob Fioretti is not happy. Less than a year ago, he was elected to his second term as alderman of Chicago’s 2nd Ward, a sprawling city council district that stretched from the Near South Side all the way west to East Garfield Park, becoming the dominant alderman in the South Loop and Near West Side, as well as much of the West Loop.
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Motor Row's Broad Shoulders Brewing aims to debut this summer

01/18/2012

Frank Lassandrello has been brewing beer since he was 18. No, it wasn’t necessarily legal, and no, it wasn’t necessarily good, but it certainly gave him a head start on his peers. As a freshman at Green Mountain College, he found it was simply an easy way to do what so many college students enjoy doing: imbibing alcohol. But 12 years later, with professional brewing experience at some of the Midwest’s most prominent craft beer breweries under his belt, Lassandrello is striking out on his own again with Broad Shoulders Brewing, set to open this summer at 2337 S. Michigan Ave.
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