The Glenwood Sunday Market will hold its fourth annual “Heat It Up!” chili cook-off in Rogers Park this Sunday, giving people a chance to warm up and escape from all of the snow. At least 21 different chefs, or teams, will participate in the competition by bringing their own unique chili to the Glenwood Bar, […]
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A gun control activist said the National Rifle Association’s agenda is full of “bumper sticker” rhetoric and called firearms unsafe at a talk at Columbia College Chicago last week. Lee Goodman, an organizer for the Stop Concealed Carry Coalition, spoke to a Columbia College Chicago journalism class about gun control laws in Illinois and across […]
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Christopher Roundtree’s murderer may get away because people won’t speak up. The shooter gunned down the 29-year-old earlier this month in Chicago’s South Side Englewood neighborhood. In another murder, two years ago, 17-year-old Robert Tate refused reveal the name of his shooter to police, taking that secret to the grave. Both cases are the result of Chicago’s street […]
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Sexual assault crisis centers can finally count on a new source of funding—strip clubs. The Illinois “skin tax,” that went in to effect on Jan.1, requires strip clubs that serve alcohol to pay a tax that would raise money for underfunded rape crisis centers. Clubs have the option of paying a $3 surcharge per customer or […]
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Celebrate Women’s History Month by honoring women in the South Loop who are pioneering roles models.1st Annual South Loop, Saturday, March 9, 2013 from 3 to 5 p.m. at Overflow Coffee Bar at 1550 S. State. If you are a Columbia student looking for a venue for your art or musical talent, contact Amanda at (312) 772-2356 or [email protected] […]
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Riders on the CTA Red Line will have to switch to Green Line trains starting May 19 when a section of the so-called Dan Ryan branch of the system will be closed for repairs. The $425 million project will replace and rebuild Red Line tracks from Cermak-Chinatown to 95th/Dan Ryan. The project will take five […]
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Last Fridays (of the month, that is), leaves after 6 p.m. THE monthly gathering of bicyclists making their presence known downtown since 1997. Slowly winds a dozen miles or more. Radically inclusive, thousands attend in good weather. It is on for tonight for stalwarts February 22, 2013 from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Daley Plaza, […]
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