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07/28/2010

Grant for emergency response at Rush

07/28/2010

Rush University Medical Center will use a $10 million state capital grant to build out what’s being called the McCormick Center for Advanced Emergency Response on the first floor of the hospital’s new building at 1650 W. Congress.
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1000 S. Michigan sells for $11.3M

07/28/2010

The auctioneer Rick Levin said an affiliate of First American Bank won a July 27 auction for the vacant land at 1000 S. Michigan, purchasing the land for 11.3 million.
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What are you missing online?

07/28/2010

Speaking of print and digital media, have you visited ChicagoJournal.com lately? A sampling from our blogs: "A weekly Sunday errand up State Street resulted in a pleasant chat and tour for a fellow from New Zealand," Blagica Bottigliero writes in her Sidewalk Observations.
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Barista champ works down the block

Intelligentsia’s Michael Phillips takes 2010 coffee crown

07/28/2010

Michael Phillips, the assistant director of education at Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, realized he wanted to make a career in coffee several years ago while he was living in Minneapolis.
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Brewing up beer, and community in Chicago

The ethic underlying soon-to-open Haymarket Pub and Brewery focuses on local connections

07/21/2010

One hundred years ago, the beer Chicagoans drank came from long-forgotten places like the Illinois Brewing and Malting on 38th Street, Ogren Brewing on Irving Avenue and Pfeifer’s Berlin Weiss Beer Company on Leavitt Street, among many others, according to Bob Skilnik’s 2006 book Beer: A History of Brewing in Chicago.
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Coal conundrum

Sierra Club, Greenpeace join fray over coal-fired plants in Pilsen, Little Village

07/21/2010

Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Burne and representatives from the environmental group Greenpeace joined several city aldermen and community activists last week to announce their commitment to seeing what backers call the “Chicago Clean Power Coalition ordinance” signed into law.
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Slain officer worked South Loop beat

Officer Michael Bailey shot and killed after shift guarding the mayor’s home

07/21/2010

Michael Bailey, a Chicago Police Department officer, was shot just after 6 a.m. Sunday, July 18, by gunmen in the 7400 block of S. Evans and pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital less than an hour later.
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Wheels start turning for new park

Two-acre open space included in 2006 Roosevelt Collection deal

07/21/2010

The real estate firm that put up the Roosevelt Collection project and the Chicago Park District are negotiating over the contours of a new park in the South Loop, representatives from both organizations have confirmed.
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Taxman cancels Gateway meeting

Developer says changes are being considered

07/21/2010

Representatives from the Taxman Corporation pulled out of a July 14 meeting with the West Loop Community Organization about The Gateway, a hotel-commercial-rental project the Skokie-based builder has pitched for the much of the southwest corner of Madison and Halsted.
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