Judge appoints receiver for Block 37

11/20/2009

CB Richard Ellis Inc. has been appointed as receiver of Block 37 in the Loop. Bank of America filed a $128 million dollar foreclosure lawsuit against Block 37 developer Joseph Freed & Associates LLC last month. Read More...

Printers Row mainstay Blackie's featured

11/18/2009

Don Terry, writing in the Sun-Times, calls Blackie's "the place that to me most makes the South Loop where I live feel like a real neighborhood." Read More...

Steelers fan poisoned in a South Loop bar?

11/17/2009

A Pittsburgh television station is reporting that a Steelers fan says he was poisoned and left blind at Kitty O'Shea's, a bar in the South Loop. Read More...

Chicago's most walkable communities calculated

11/10/2009

Chicago Journal's coverage neighborhoods -- the Near South Side and the Near West Side -- do pretty well on this calculation of the city's most walkable neighborhoods. But overall, Chicago's still behind San Francisco, Boston and New York. Via windycitizen.com. Read More...

Finishing gaps in the lakefront

11/05/2009

Around 100 acres of lakefront property on the South Side could be transferred to the Chicago Park District. Chicago elected officials will propose legislation to do just that early next year. Read More...

Stroger files 22K signatures for reelection bid

11/03/2009

The race for president of the Cook County board is on. Two of incumbent President Todd Stroger's challengers filed more signatures for their spot on the ballot. Read More...

Big protests expected at bankers' confab

10/26/2009

The American Bankers Association -- whose members have received billions in taxpayer bailouts -- are meeting in Chicago. And so are the protesters, according to this piece from Bloomberg News. Read More...

Population in Cook County up because of recession

10/26/2009

Interesting column from the Trib's Greg Burns today, who writes, "The number of people leaving Cook County has plunged by 17 percent since the latest peak in 2006, while the numbers moving in have shot up. With Chicago's high rate of births and Immigration, Cook County's population grew during 2008, reversing recent trends." Read More...

Eastgate Village and Mercy Hospital examined

10/13/2009

The Sun-Times digs into land dealings and special tax districts that helped Mercy Medical Center, located on the Near South Side. Read More...

The Felony Franks dispute hits Wall Street

10/13/2009

Today, the Wall Street Journal gets into the Felony Franks story. One new tidbit from the piece: a civil-rights law firm in Washington D.C. has contacted Felony Franks owner Jim Andrews about litigating over Ald. Fioretti's introduction of an ordinance banning overhanging signs on Western Avenue. Read More...