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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Cabrini row houses to go?

Policymakers and tenant leaders aren’t in agreement as CHA considers the future 586 public housing units

06/23/2010

Cambridge Avenue in Cabrini-Green, just north of Chicago Avenue, is a study in contrasts. On the west side of Cambridge, refurbished yellow brick surrounds new metal doors and sleek house numbers while cheerful landscaping brightens the space in front of row houses. On Cambridge’s east side are dilapidated, mostly empty structures worn by decades of use and neglect.
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Surviving the cuts

Parents look to raise money and find volunteers

06/23/2010

With Chicago Public Schools set to lay off teachers and slash funding for programs to close its budget deficit, parents and community stakeholders at some public schools around downtown will lean on fund raising strategies and outreach efforts to try to mitigate the worst of the cuts.
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Lake View hotel gets permit

Four-story, $12 million project

06/23/2010

While controversy continues to swirl around M&R Development’s Addison Park on Clark project in Wrigleyville, the Zoning Board of Appeals recently green-lighted a small boutique hotel to the south of that site.
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A trip to South Shore Valley

Heart of the 'hood

06/23/2010

I moved to Lake View when I was 11, coming from South Shore Valley, a quiet middle0class neighborhood on the city’s South Side. I recently took a ride back to my old ’hood, and was happy to see that much of it, including my first house at 8754 S. Bennett, actually looks better than it did about four decades ago.
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Housing market digging out of price pit

The Home Front

06/23/2010

The Windy City housing market appears to be gradually digging itself out of the Grand Canyon-sized price crater created by the Great Recession.
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Ticker tape time

06/16/2010

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An estimated two million people packed the streets of downtown Chicago Friday to celebrate the Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks.
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Unfurling the black umbrellas

Flash mobbers silently protest at BP namesake in Millennium Park

06/16/2010

BP Bridge, which connects Millennium Park to Daley Bicentennial Plaza, was eerily quiet a bit after the noon hour last Friday, despite the estimated two million fans who thronged nearby downtown streets, cheering the Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup win.
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Connecting through art

Notebaert Museum brings in muralist Hector Duarte

06/16/2010

Every spring, the monarch butterfly travels 2,500 miles north from its winter home in Michoacán, Mexico across the United States in one of the most beautiful and mysterious migrations in nature. Like the monarch butterflies he paints, renowned muralist Hector Duarte, 58, knows intimately about the struggles associated with that passage north. Read More...

Pols catch Hawks fever

Heart of the 'hood

06/16/2010

Blackhawks fever is everywhere, and our local pols are getting in on the act. One lucky guy is lifelong Hawks fan Rep. Mike Quigley (D-5th), who has been "giddy" since he hoisted the coveted Stanley Cup into the air while celebrating with the team in the locker room after its championship game in Philadelphia.
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