City Lit Sidebar – Independent Bookstore Day As she made her way from shelf to shelf with an armful of oversized children’s books, straightening and arranging as she went, Teresa Kirschbraun paused to survey her store. She smiled from ear to ear at the bustling room, normally a little quieter but that day full of conversation […]
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Leaning over a glass countertop that houses row after row of brightly colored blown-glass pipes, Will Boyer’s eyes scan the pieces back and forth. “These are bubblers, those are chillums,” he explains, pointing from one section of the case that stores water pipes to another that stores dozens of hollow, cylindrical smoking devices with a […]
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Shops that sell tobacco accessories will have to provide more information about their businesses under a measure passed by a Chicago City Council committee on Wednesday. Chicago’s 44th Ward Ald. Tom Tunney, who sponsored the ordinance, said tobacco sellers put paraphernalia in their windows that make them look like “bong shops.” Tunney’s amendment would affect […]
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Columbia College Chicago does not offer a discounted transit card to students taking summer courses, making it more expensive for commuters already paying higher tuition. Roosevelt University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, also in the Loop, did not offer discounted cards, called U-Passes, either. DePaul University and Robert Morris University did […]
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