Target makes inroads to Cabrini

Big box retailer gives land to Chicago Housing Authority that could go to public housing

02/01/2012

Plans for a Target store in Cabrini-Green are falling into place as the retail giant recently anted up its half of a land-swap agreement with the Chicago Housing Authority.
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From the grounds up

Lakeview's Heritage Bicycles General Store strikes a balance for cyclists

02/01/2012

Mike Salvatore carries a lot of titles these days: local business owner, returning Chicagoan, and — perhaps with a slight wince — a self-admitted bike snob. “It comes off so wrong, it’s not really what I mean,” he said. “It’s an intimidating culture if you’re not part of it — and to clear the air, I’m friends with a lot of the so-called bike snobs,” he said. His Bowery Lane Bikes an online bicycle manufacturer launched in 2008 and has caught its stride selling handmade, simple models reminiscent of a time before speed frames and double-digit gear systems. Read More...

Chicago Park District reveals final plans for North Grant Park redo

Skate park, ice skating ribbon, climbing wall highlight features at new park

01/27/2012

The far north end of Grant Park is set to be completely torn up next fall, and this week the Chicago Park District unveiled the final plans for the massive rebuild. The new park will replace the rigidly structured, concrete-heavy Richard J. Daley Bicentennial Plaza with a more pastoral park featuring winding paths connecting wide lawns and hills with active areas.
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Double-decker burger joint aims to elevate bar food

01/25/2012

Remember the old Wendy’s catchphrase, “Where’s the beef?” Well, after all these years I have the answer: At Deuce’s and the Diamond Club, 3505 N. Clark St.
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Riding out the waves

Gold Coast surfer’s arrest could restart conversation on where it’s legal to carve

01/25/2012

For a life-long surfer who has dropped in on both coasts, Rex Flodstrom doesn’t hold much against the seasonal waves of Lake Michigan. “I always say it’s pretty good, for a lake,” said Flodstrom, 40.
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Ward remap passes

Lincoln Park kept whole, 2nd Ward squeezed between 43rd and 42nd in Gold Coast, Old Town

01/25/2012

After months of backroom wheeling and dealing, Chicago’s ward boundaries have been officially redrawn, and Lincoln Park is nearly intact within the 43rd Ward. The 43rd Ward’s boundaries have shifted only slightly, moving a little further west to Racine rather than Sheffield, and losing a bit of ground on the ward’s south end. Ald. Michele Smith trumpeted the final boundaries as a victory.
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City steps up nuisance business laws

New amendment expands law beyond late-night operators, wipes out signature requirements

01/25/2012

The city is changing how it reviews operating licenses for businesses that get complaints from neighbors. Last week, the city council pushed through a series of amendments aimed at tightening Chicago’s deleterious impact and public nuisance ordinance — a set of regulations that give residents in Chicago a platform for “addressing negative quality of life and public safety concerns in their neighborhoods” caused by new liquor license applicants or existing liquor establishments.
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Swanky Streeterville retirement home nixed

Developer cites failure of the Clare in decision not to move forward with community at 850 N. Lake Shore Drive

01/18/2012

Last week, the resident group Streeterville Organization of Active Residents posted a message on its website stating that it had recently received a letter from Integrated Development Group LLC, in which the firm announced it would discontinue plans to develop its property at 850 N. Lake Shore Drive into a high-end senior living residence.
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Lincoln Elementary plan still up in air

School pushes CPS for some solutions to over-enrollment problems by March

01/18/2012

With the spring semester now underway, parents and faculty at Abraham Lincoln Elementary are growing restless as the district scrambles to solve the school's overcrowding issues. Within the scope of the Chicago Public Schools system, Lincoln Elementary, a kindergarten through eighth grade school on the city's North Side, suffers from an almost inverted ailment.
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Chicago ward remap seems close to approval, but remains unseen

01/18/2012

Chicago's political battle lines are being redrawn, and the new aldermanic ward boundaries increasingly look like they'll be along the lines of a map presented by the city council's Black Caucus.
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