Chicago bike sharing program arrives

Stations at Hancock Tower and the park district's headquarters

08/11/2010

Last Thursday, after a two-hour excursion, Jared Mullendore and friend Melissa Siewe rolled their rented bikes into a B-cycle station at the Hancock Center, having finished a little pleasure riding to the beach and a trip to nearby shopping districts. Some kinks are still being worked out, but city dwellers and tourists alike have started riding through lakefront neighborhoods using bikes rented from a new bike sharing program that launched on July 30. Read More...

Alderman Vi Daley will retire

Contenders for 43rd Ward seat ready their campaigns

08/11/2010

Concluding more than a decade of leadership in Lincoln Park, Ald. Vi Daley (43rd) announced last week that she will not seek re-election to city council next year. Instead, Daley will step down at the end of her current term, when a new alderman is sworn in next May.
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Second TIF injection for WaterSaver

Commission OK’s $5.2M for 45,000 square foot addition to West Erie facility

08/11/2010

The city’s Community Development Commission Tuesday signed off on a second dose of subsidies toward an expansion plan for a River North faucet manufacturing company.
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A tale of two mansions

Heart of the 'hood

08/11/2010

The trouble all started a couple of years ago when George Giannoulias started building his four-story home at 21 E. Cedar St., next door to Dr. Gordy Siegel and his wife Clary’s circa-1891 house at 25 E. Cedar, a place where Frank Lloyd Wright once lived.
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The masses ride in Chicago

08/04/2010

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Hundreds of bikers cycled through Loop streets last Friday for the monthly Critical Mass bike ride.
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Staking positions

More strike talk at Near North hotels

08/04/2010

Sapped by prolonged contract negotiations, union workers for Hyatt Hotels last week voted to authorize a potential labor strike at the company’s four Chicago-area hotels. The hotel workers union Unite Here Local 1 and a number of major hotel chains have been at a bargaining impasse over wage, staffing and benefits agreements since August of 2009, when the union’s last contract expired.
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Soapboxer's delight

08/04/2010

Looking out over the crowd gathered at the northern rim of Washington Square Park last Saturday afternoon, Otis McDonald took a moment to let the last wave of applause and jeers die down before he resumed his address. The argument of the hour was about gun laws, and whether or not restrictions on ownership should eased in the city.
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Moving down the road

Changing things up after 132 Chicago Journals

08/04/2010

The electronic calendar that I’ve used to organize my schedule for the past two-and-a-half years is thick with short-hand notations like these: 6:30 p.m. South Loop School LSC; 6 p.m. Fannie May site meet; 7 p.m. Beat 1224 CAPS; 9 a.m. Zoning Board of Appeals; 10 a.m. Park ribbon cutting.
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Reform may bring relief from faulty home appraisals

The Home Front

08/04/2010

With home foreclosures and short sales dotting every Chicago-area neighborhood and suburb, homeowners who are paying their mortgages on time are scratching their heads and wondering what their house really is worth.
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Docs take to the small screen

07/28/2010

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With his glitzy roster of elite clientele from Chicago and around the world, Dr. Leon Forrester Tcheupdjian is the self-proclaimed king of liposuction. A forerunner in field of cosmetic surgery since the 1970s, Tcheupdjian has brought numerous surgical and non-surgical techniques to the country that loves to nip, tuck and augment their troubles away. With his daughter and head nurse Leslie Forrester by his side, the pair are Chicago’s own "Plastic Royalty." At least that’s how NBC felt earlier this year when they signed up the twosome for a reality television show shepherded by Towers Productions.
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