Getting to 50

Heart of the 'hood

07/14/2010

My husband’s aunt, Mary Ann McDermott, worked for many years at Loyola University, both downtown and at the school’s Lake Shore Campus, and she helped to prepare generations of nurses as both a dean and administrator.
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Residents worry about losing rental help

Obscure federal program helps half of residents at 510 W. Belmont, but its time is up soon

07/07/2010

Amrita Dayal moved into 510 W. Belmont in 1978, a single mom and recent immigrant who had arrived from India just a few years earlier with $8 to her name. Thirty-two years later, she's fighting for the building to remain the affordable housing haven it has been for her.
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A village in which to age

Skyline Village seeks to develop a communal support system for the elderly in Streeterville

07/07/2010

Aging can be a sobering process. For some in their fifties and sixties, the likelihood of their latter years being played out in a senior living home - where friends and family are often replaced by caretakers and physicians - is an unsettling prospect.
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Blackies takes more hits

In mid-May, two foreclosure suits filed

07/07/2010

Two recent foreclosure suits filed against Boston Blackies marks another bad turn for the owner of the ill-fated Chicago-area burger chain. Elmhurst-based Suburban Bank & Trust has filed foreclosure suits against owner Nick Giannis for defaulted mortgages at the chain’s original location at 164 E. Grand in Streeterville and at 222 E. Algonquin Road in Arlington Heights.
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In musical, Old Towner realizes a dream

Heart of the 'hood

07/07/2010

Congrats to Old Town resident Joslyn Jones, who is finally living the dream she has had her entire life. This summer, Jones stars in the musical "Once On This Island." The show runs through Aug. 29 at the Marriott Lincolnshire. It’s the moment she’s waited for ... forever.
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Gang bust touches Marshall Field Apts.

Police: Conservative Vice Lords connected to heroin distro in Old Town

06/30/2010

A collaborative investigation between the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office has reined in heroin-dealing operations at the Marshall Field Homes, a subsidized-housing complex in Old Town, police said last week. Read More...

White to build community center on Chicago Avenue

Secretary of state has long been active in Cabrini-Green area

06/30/2010

Secretary of State Jesse White has announced plans to build a gymnasium and community center in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood. Preliminary designs for the building, which will be a Chicago Park District property, include a gymnasium, locker rooms, computer labs and a community meeting area.
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The eye has it

30-foot high sculpture lands in Pritzker Park

06/30/2010

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The eye stares east from a steel berth in Pritzker Park at Van Buren and State, watching as lines of commuters board the southbound buses and pedestrians amble out of restaurants. Thirty feet high, with lines of bloodshot red tracing across the sclera, "Eye," is a sculpture designed by Tony Tasset, an artist and professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
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Nearly baring it all

06/30/2010

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Although it doesn’t take muggy and hot weather to convince Pride Parade participants and watchers to bare some skin, it didn’t hurt on Sunday as the annual show made its way down Broadway in Boystown.
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Beautiful, sexy and loving

Heart of the 'hood

06/30/2010

I was in Lincoln Park near Wilson Avenue on Sunday at the Metro High School reunion picnic when what seemed like tens of thousands of people — many of them dressed to the nines — started streaming in from the Pride Parade, which kicked off in Lake View.
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