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News and notes
08/05/2009
August, traditionally marked by stultifying heat and a generalized slow-down in news and public affairs, promises to be neither this year. Here’s a few stories I’ll be following, and other recent news and notes. Read More...
Planning Ickes
Avoid the Lathrop experience
08/05/2009
We’re glad that Pat Dowell, alderman of the 3rd Ward, is a former urban planner. Those skills should serve her constituents well, as Ickes residents and other Near South Side community stakeholders start talking about the redevelopment of the Ickes parcel, which stretches southwest from State and Cermak. Read more...
Nice name
08/05/2009
Kudos to representatives of the Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance, the American Indian Center, the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Alderman Fioretti’s office and others for working together find a name for the park at 18th and Calumet. Read more...
The students, they just keep coming
07/29/2009
When a lot of my friends started getting a little concerned recently about another new dorm in the neighborhood, I simply tsk-tsked. Read more...
Body blow
Prairie Avenue Books is closing
07/29/2009
The news that Prairie Avenue Books is likely to close this September is a monumental gut punch to anyone who cares about independent retailing, architecture and design and, frankly, fascinating places. Read more...
Town home tax
07/29/2009
The City of Chicago departmental spokesmen who failed to answer Chicago Journal’s questions about why town home owners are paying disproportionately more for a new fee on garbage containers can be forgiven. The Daley administration doesn’t have much ground to stand on here, as our front-page story this week reveals. Read more...
Recovering river needs protection
One View
07/22/2009
The "Great Coyote Hunt" series (Chicago Journal, July 2 and July 9) was a wonderful reminder of the natural legacy of the Chicago region. The much maligned coyote living along the river at the South Branch meander site reminded me of the Chicago River itself - a critical part of our natural landscape that was mistreated for over a century that is starting to recover. Read more...
Olympic cost
Chicagoans cynical about the budget
07/22/2009
The reaction to Chicago 2016’s presentation Tuesday ranged from fulsome, chest-pounding praise for the Olympic bid, to interest in how small business owners could get in on the 2016 pie, to skepticism that Games here would cost as promised. Read more...