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Turning out the community
Push for services — and political power — in Chinatown is on
06/09/2010
Even the introductions at a meeting packed with hundreds of Near South Side Chinese-American residents Monday night served as a message of the community’s political potential.
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Robbery with gun threat
06/09/2010
A man wearing a baseball cap, khaki pants and a red striped jacket entered a store in the 100 block of N. Michigan June 5 at 11:45 a.m. and browsed for an hour before approaching a clerk and saying, "If you do not give me the money in the drawer, I’m going to show you my gun."
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Toast of the South Loop
06/09/2010
A live-action painter brushed and splattered canvases at the Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance’s second “Toast of the South Loop” event last Friday.
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Parking lot at Harrison and Wells floated
06/09/2010
Dog group forming; two meetings
06/09/2010
An advisory group for the dog-friendly area that will soon be built out in the northwestern corner of Skinner Park is in formation, according to Ald. Robert Fioretti's office.
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South Loopers pack food event
06/09/2010
Hundreds of South Loop residents gathered at the Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance’s second Toast of the South Loop on June 4 at the Glessner House at 18th and Prairie.
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Costco, med district ink lease
Retailer enters due diligence period
06/02/2010
South Loop fight club
Training in the sweet science at 9th and State
06/02/2010
Journal's founding editor heads to Indonesia
McNeil earns Fulbright, will travel to Indonesia to teach and learn
06/02/2010
Brett McNeil is hoping to play hockey in Indonesia. But he might have to settle for badminton. The former journalist, corporate investigator and hockey nut was just awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. In August he leaves for a 10-month stint teaching history in Indonesia.
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Hellenic Museum starts new building
Institution still needs to raise $5 million for project
06/02/2010
The National Hellenic Museum has been an itinerant institution during much of its history, occupying spaces on Franklin Street and then on Michigan Avenue before taking up its current location on the fourth floor of a commercial building at Halsted and Adams in 2004.
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