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West Loop scores with HQ relocation

05/05/2010

The West Loop just got a major shot in the arm. On Monday, the popular T-shirt company Threadless announced they’d like to move their headquarters from Ravenswood to 1260 W. Madison.
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How not to have an event

Red Bull blew it, but reaction overblown

04/28/2010

Why Red Bull approached the set-up to the BMX competition they wanted to hold at Harrison and Wells the way they did we don’t know. It sure didn’t help their cause.
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The Gateway rental tower

Let's not be so fast to nix this

04/21/2010

In last week's Chicago Journal, we reported on a story that’s rarer than an endangered mink: the contentious community meeting about a proposed development. In this case, the story sussed out some of the tensions generated by the Taxman Corporation’s proposed Gateway Project, eyed for the southwest corner of Madison and Halsted.
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Beef with Mike

04/21/2010

Also in last week's paper was freelance writer Michael Nagrant's take on which is the finest of three very-fine Near South and Near West corned beef emporiums - Manny's, Moon’s or Eleven City Diner.
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Why we need frameworks

Individual environmentalism isn’t enough

04/14/2010

We love recycling. We think people who take reusable mugs to coffee shops for their morning fix deserve a medal. We offer a tip of the cap to those who eat food grown locally, eschewing plums from Chile.
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Troubling foreclosures

Suits on two up-and-coming streets

04/07/2010

Perched as we are on an edge between recession and recovery, where economic indicators offer both the terrible (high unemployment) and the hopeful (growth domestic product up 5.7 percent in the last quarter of 2009), the rush of foreclosures filed against Krzysztof Karbowski’s properties, detailed in this week’s Chicago Journal, are altogether depressing.
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New projects on Taylor

A signal of better times - we hope

03/31/2010

We focused this week's front-page story about Taylor Street on two real estate development companies that have invested millions to dramatically improve two buildings on that Near West Side business corridor.
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Street sweep

03/31/2010

So far, we've observed the debate about how Chicago's street sweeping is conducted from afar, following the debate through other local media.
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Local school councils - still underrated

These aren’t just advisory roles

03/24/2010

Anyone remember the old Chicago Journal over- and underrated list? It was a "compendium of swipes and valentines that never fails to elicit frothy letters and angry phone calls," according to a January 2007 article.
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A few thoughts ...

03/17/2010

Briefly, on a few items in this week’s Chicago Journal: We have little doubt that funds will be raised — eventually — to pay for the restoration of artist Edgar Miller’s incredible Depression Era sculptures, installed into a Near West side public housing project in 1938 and removed three years ago.
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