17 People Ill After Chicago Food Fest
You might want to avoid eating at Pars Cove Persian Cuisine is it’s anything like their booth at the Taste of Chicago where at least 17 people have been confirmed poisoned by the food from that booth. At least five of the 17 had salmonella poisoning and three of those had to go to the hospital. No worse than swimming at North Avenue Beach I suppose.
[via Forbes]
Gas Prices Spike In Chicago
Shutdowns and Midwestern refineries in Kansas and Indiana are about to cause drastic increases in gas prices at the pump. A spike of $.20 per gallon is expected throughout the Midwest and $.40 per gallon in Chicago. Make plans accordingly.
[via NBC5.com]
New math might knock off Dallas from top of crime list
DALLAS — Police recently discovered they have been over-reporting certain types of property crime to the FBI, a revelation that could change Dallas’ reputation as one of the nation’s most dangerous cities.
Well Dallas could just go the route that Chicago has taken which is to simply not report crimes to the FBI. It doesn’t make the crimes go away but it sure gets Chicago off those top 10 lists of certain crime indices.
[via Houston Chronicle]
Thunderstorms Cause Mass Power Outages in Chicago
Heavy storms Tuesday afternoon and evening took out power for tens of thousands of Chicagoans in and out of the city. Around 39,200 people have had their power restored but there are still hundreds of Chicago residents who do not have power this morning.
[via Associated Content]
End of road for suburb’s icon?
In a strip mall parking lot in the suburb of Berwyn, made famous in the movie “Wayne’s World”, there is a giant’s like going up through eight cars stacked on top of each other. Some call it public art. But it may be going away soon depending on what the mall’s owner decides to do with the property.
[via Chicago Tribune]
Man Charged In Chinatown Ecstasy Scheme
It seems there’s more than just a list of gambling going on at Chinatown’s Mahjongg parlors. A man namedHai Du Xiong was arrested Tuesday at 4 a.m. for selling 200 pills of MDMA (ecstasy, E, in this case, Benz) to an undercover for about seven bucks a hit. He was buying them for four dollars per pill.
[via CBS2 Chicago]
Two Chicago Teens Shot on South Side
Two teens on the south side who were walking on 45th St near Champlain around 130 Monday afternoon were gunned down by someone firing from a silver Cadillac SUV. A witness was able to identify the shooter. But the two boys, ages 14 and 15, were not gang members, so I’m not sure why they were targeted.
“Theres just been so much violence in the area. It’s no longer safe to walk the streets no matter who you are. No one wants to live like this, in fear. But what can you do? What a world we live in when innocent people, kids, get shot near their homes,” said South Side resident Lakisha Jackson.
The same day on the South Side two other people died in separate incidents when they were hit by cars.
[via Associated Content]
400 kilos of cocaine seized in Will County
A huge bust for local police, 400 kg of cocaine were seized coming from the north side of Chicago. The cocaine was in bags with red dye to make the bags appear like marble beef. Of course, you would normally store meat in some sort of refrigerator.
[via Chicago Tribune]
Chicago shows way on tourism
Tourism in the Canadian province of Ontario is down, way down. It’s been called the “perfect storm” of 9/11, the weak US dollar relative to a stronger Canadian dollar, new and more strongly enforced requirements when crossing the border which are at the very least confusing for those who don’t realize that they don’t need passports quite yet. But many Americans just gave up.
So Toronto is being told they need to look to cities like Chicago and Montréal as models for tracking tourism. The main two examples are Millennium Park and Navy Pier. Millennium Park has been a huge success with tourists and it’s hard to imagine downtown Chicago without it. Well, it’s hard to imagine downtown Chicago with a crowd of tourists without Millennium Park. And Navy Pier continues to attract people every night with new conventions or attractions or shows and the free fireworks every Wednesday and Saturday night. Of course, we have nothing to do with the weak US dollar. Well, actually, as a major manufacturing center in this country I guess we kind of do because we want our dollar to be weak so that other countries can buy our manufactured goods. That provides little to relieve to Chicagoans who would like to but can’t afford to travel abroad because their wallets are full of nothing but worthless greenbacks.
[via Toronto Star]
Owner: Crime forces apartments’ closure
[via Rockford Register Star]
