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Are You Game for Making a Game? Global Game Jam Comes to Blue1647

Are You Game for Making a Game? Global Game Jam Comes to Blue1647

BLUE1647 is a site for the 2015 Global Game Jam and you’re invited! No age restrictions, its free, and in a safe place. The Global Game Jam is a 48-hour worldwide event where you go to a local site, find a team, and make a game based around a secret theme. What’s the secret theme? I can’t […]

South Loop Pushes for Neighborhood High School

Many families living in the South Loop struggle with the issue of not having a suitable neighborhood high school for their children. Litigation attorney and community leader John Jacoby faces the same problem with his youngest daughter who next year will be a freshman in high school. Having lived in Chicago for more than 20 […]

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Fire at South Loop Firehouse Restaurant prompts Landmarks Illinois to take action

A fire at a South Loop firehouse-turned-restaurant in early December has prompted Landmarks Illinois, a nonprofit preservation organization, to beef up its efforts to prevent future fires caused by construction-related accidents in historic buildings. The extra-alarm fire on 1401 S. Michigan Ave. was contained but caused heavy damage. Evanston resident Duane Yost, who was at the scene of the fire, […]

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