Developer looking at student housing in S. Loop

07/15/2009

South Loop developers Keith Giles and Jerry Karlik want to build a 21-story student housing tower at 1136-40 S. Wabash. Read More...

Battle over evictions at federally funded housing

07/14/2009

At a Rogers Park subsidized housing complex, orphans could lose their home. Read More...

Searing critique of Olympic ward meetings

07/10/2009

Tribune business columnist David Greising takes Mayor Daley to task on the Olympics meetings. Read More...

Near West food desert and farmer's market

07/10/2009

Tribster Mary Schmich checks out the Neighbors' Development Network's new farmer's market. The print edition of the column includes a photo of neighbors Andre Perrin and Amy Knapp. Read More...

Chicago: the country's second best news town?

07/07/2009

Check out this hilarious post Gawker.com offered up about which major American city is the best news town. Read More...

Gallery owners take a look at the South Loop

07/06/2009

Is the South Loop Chicago's next gallery district? Read More...

Violence at the Taste of Chicago

07/06/2009

Mike Doyle examines the accounts of violence at the Taste of Chicago in the Tribune and Sun-Times and compares them with what officers commenting on the Second City Cop blog and Twitter users at downtown found. Read More...

SouthtownStar writer P. Kadner on Springfield

07/02/2009

Title of this opinion column: "Does anyone in Springfield know what they're doing?" Read More...

Bar planned for Roos Collection

07/02/2009

A longtime restaurateur is planning a bar for the movie theater at Roosevelt Collection. Read More...

A little windfall...

07/01/2009

Last March, when the Wednesday Journal chain of community weeklies stopped publishing two of its Chicago titles -- the Booster and the News-Star -- the chain mailed those papers' 4,000 subscribers a letter offering them a choice: they could request a refund for the undelivered issues, or they could show their support for community journalism by letting the company donate the money to the Community Media Workshop. Read More...