Story by Renee I. Pandy Submitted on Tue, 06/10/2008 – 02:54. Richard Chalmers was living on Chicago’s North Side when friends moved to Bronzeville and began complaining about the shortage of coffee shops there. Chalmers, 44, said he began thinking about the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago’s Southeast Side as a place to launch a...
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Story by Ashley Izbicki Submitted on Fri, 06/06/2008 – 04:56. Helicopters, snakes and butterflies may not seem to have anything in common, but in a dance studio with metal poles and mirror walls, all three are giving women an innovative work out. Strippers and firefighters aren’t the only ones sliding down poles. Fitness studios...
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Submitted on Tue, 06/03/2008 – 23:08 When the Illinois House adjourned May 31, it failed to vote on an adoption bill that would unseal state adoption records. State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago), an adoptee herself, sponsored HB 4623 , which would give adoptees 21 and older access to their original birth certificates unless the...
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Submitted on Thu, 05/22/2008 – 20:11. Story by John Lendman In the shadow of Chicago’s skyline, a country fair atmosphere brings together dozens of local farmers and producers for the Green City Market. But this is no ordinary farmers’ market, because this one sells only organic goods. Mayor Richard M. Daley cut the ribbon...
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Submitted Thu, 05/22/2008 – 18:22. Imagine attending college for free. Sound too good to be true? You really can get a college education debt-free if you know where to look. At Berea College in Kentucky, your tuition bill would be exactly $0. The small Christian liberal arts college in the foothills of Appalachia south...
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Story by Erica Christoffer and Becky Schlikerman May 19, 2008 – More than two-thirds of Chicago’s City Council committees consistently break Illinois law by keeping inadequate records that make it difficult if not impossible for the public to get even the most basic information about how its government works – harming citizens and the...
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Submitted on Thu, 05/15/2008 – 19:31. Lakeview residents and business owners are skeptical of a proposed multimillion-dollar development to include hotel rooms, rental apartments and stores near the busy intersection of Clark and Addison streets. The project calls for two nine-story buildings. A 137-room Hyatt hotel will face Clark Street and an apartment building...
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Story by Joshua Porter Submitted on Wed, 05/14/2008 – 21:40. The historic Goldblatt’s Building at the corner of Chicago and Ashland avenues may be the site of a new West Town branch library, according to a key community leader. Aaron Bilton, former president of the East Village Association, made the announcement at the April...
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Story by Nicole Faust Submitted on Tue, 05/13/2008 – 01:45. In what could be a positive turn of events, a Chicago man may be discovering rehabilitation not only for his past crime but his mental health as well. The 19-year-old charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle was found unfit to stand trial...
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Submitted on Tue, 05/06/2008 – 02:19. A local solidarity group occuped the Lisle office of a major agro-chemical corporation May 2 to protest the recent killing of a leader of landless peasants in Brazil. Chicago Friends of MST — supporters of the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil, or Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra...
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