Wicker Park’s bustling Six Corners now buzzes with the newly opened La Colombe Café, located just beneath the Damen Blue Line stop. Kate Markham, Chicago’s retail manager of La Colombe, said the coffee shop aims to strip the coffee culture to its simplest parts to rebuild it without the elements coffee drinkers have grown accustomed […]
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LVL3, a contemporary art gallery in Wicker Park, unveiled its latest group exhibition April 5 called “Tropical Depression,” which features the work of Chicago-based artists Kate Ruggeri, Nicholas Rummler, Laura Hart Newlon and Kate O’Neill. Gallery director Vincent Uribe said in selecting the artists, the gallery partnered with Chicago’s ACRE Residency, a non-profit organization with […]
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Students are expelled more often in Chicago’s privately run charter schools than in district schools, according to a report released Feb. 25 at a school board meeting. Last school year, 307 students were expelled from charter schools with a total enrollment of 50,000 students. In public schools, 182 students were expelled among the district’s 353,000 […]
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