Red Chicago

01/26/2011

Demonstrators stand on Michigan Ave. in Streeterville as they await the arrival of Chinese President Hu Jintao last Thursday.
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Cheese greater

01/26/2011

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Sunday started off on a happy note for Bears fans, but ended with a loss to the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship game at Soldier Field.
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Chicago mayoral hopefuls get local

Chico, Emanuel, Moseley Braun and del Valle and talk schools

01/26/2011

The race for the next mayor of Chicago just got complicated. With front-runner Rahm Emanuel’s status on the mayoral ballot suddenly in question again, candidates formerly clamoring for attention on the sidelines have a new lease on their campaigns.
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Francis Parker Neighbors furious over plans to light soccer field

Turn down the lights

01/26/2011

A group of Lincoln Park residents is up in arms over the Francis W. Parker School’s recently announced plans to have “stadium” lighting shine on its abutting soccer field.
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Chicago police arrest 39 in 'flash mob' spree

01/26/2011

A number of stores on the Mag Mile were rushed by a series of shoplifting “flash mobs” earlier this month. According to a Chicago Police Department business relations alert, on Jan. 16 and Jan. 19, teenagers in groups of 15 to 35 “entered various shopping establishments on North Michigan Avenue and grabbed merchandise, then ran from the stores with the stolen items.”
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Near South Side will keep rising

The Home Front

01/26/2011

The economy may be gloomy and the next real estate boom likely is a few years away, but the emerging Near South Side is on a path to be a high-demand Chicago neighborhood, urban planners say.
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Loosening the political tension

Heart of the 'hood

01/26/2011

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and if you want to make your valentine red-hot for you, send them for a treat — while showing that you’re sensitive and in tune with their political side — with a Mayoral Massage from Massage Envy.
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Rescues of the week

01/26/2011

Delphine is a spunky 3-year-old Shepherd mix. Found as a stray, she now has a second chance at finding a loving new home. She is good with other dogs and loves to take long walks. Delphine is great at playing fetch, and is a quick learner.
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Leaving Cabrini

12 years after first documentary, filmmaker returns for projects' end

01/19/2011

In her 1999 documentary Voices of Cabrini: Remaking Chicago’s Public Housing, filmmaker Ronit Bezalel threw a premonitory light on a group of Cabrini Green residents as they watched the gears of the machine that would eventually uproot their community begin to turn. Back then, the Plan for Transformation — a decade-spanning design to redistribute the city’s poor into economically-mixed communities — was still a budding twinkle in the eye of Mayor Richard M. Daley.
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Photos: Cubs convention

01/19/2011

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Cubs fans packed the Hilton hotel in Chicago for the annual Cubs convention on Saturday.
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