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July 2007

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• 07.31.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Monday and Tueday July 30-31, 2007   highrise, north side, austin, film, los angeles, gas, vegas, hotel, NBA, casinos, south side, transit, roundup, west side, shootings, wrigleyville, lake michigan, great lakes, gang (0)

  What’s the USA’s most-visited city?
  When you consider only hotel rooms sold, Vegas’ 40 million hits the jackpot, followed by the Orlando area (27.2 million), L.A. (25.5 million), Chicago (24.8 million) and New York City (23.9 million).
  [via USA Today]

  Teenage Boy Shot On South Side
  A 15-year-old boy was wounded Monday night in a South Side shooting […]

• 07.31.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Saturday and Sunday July 28-29, 2007   chicago lawn, hotel, aurora, oak lawn, elgin, subprime, southwest, fashion, south side, roundup, west side, robbery, history, real estate (0)

  Fashion ranking puts Krakow over Chicago
  Chicago didn’t crack the top 25 for fashion cities in one annual survey, but at least New York continues to trump Paris, Rome and Milan for No. 1.
  The Global Language Monitor, which tracks words and phrases used in media and online to create a list of the most influential cities […]

• 07.27.07
  Chicago News Update for Tuesday-Friday, July 24-27, 2007   restaurant, health-care, obama, indiana, pollution, illinois, lake michigan, roundup, transit, airport, shootings, gang (0)

  Judge Orders Chicago To Halt Bensenville Home Demolitions
  …a judge’s order stopped all major work in a section of Bensenville that would be affected by the O’Hare Expansion project. However, it was unclear how long Bensenville would be able to keep the city of Chicago from demolishing almost 400 vacant homes to make way for the […]

• 07.23.07
  Chicago ghetto bus tours   tourism (0)

  ‘Ghetto’ tour showcases Chicago projects
  The yellow school bus rumbles through vacant lots and past demolished buildings, full of people who have paid $20 for a tour of what was once among the most dangerous areas of this or any other city in the United States.
  …
  By the time the city started pulling down or rehabilitating […]

• 07.23.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Saturday and Sunday, July 21-22, 2007   wicker park, bucktown, berwyn, indiana, whiting, shootings, lake michigan, melrose park, roundup (0)

  Chicago’s infamous housing projects get tourist treatment on …
  Block after block, street after street, the town in western Cook County claims to have the nation’s largest concentration of Chicago-style bungalows, and now it has set out to make the most of it.
  To the tune of $131,000, Berwyn has begun an extensive campaign to get residents […]

• 07.20.07
  Cheap flights from Chicago to Manchester, England   travel, deal, airport (0)

  With taxes, airport fees and fuel surcharges mounting, cheap fares to Europe may never return to the ridiculous lows we once enjoyed. But if there are discounts to be had for travel later this year, here’s what one of them may look like.
  British carrier BMI has a fall fare sale that offers Chicago-Manchester, England, starting […]

• 07.20.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Friday July 20, 2007   grant, film, humboldt, baghdad, los angeles, postal, calumet, south side, shootings, park, education, event (0)

  Is Baghdad Safer Than Chicago?
  This past Sunday, Barack Obama gave a speech at the Vernon Park Church of God in Chicago in which he noted that the number of city schoolchildren killed in the last school year was higher than the number of soldiers from all of Illinois killed in Iraq over the same period. […]

• 07.19.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Thursday July 19, 2007   obama, north side, highrise, weather, park, west side, gang, real estate, roundup, food (0)

  Obama Unveils Plan To Cure the Ills of Urban America
  Senator Obama of Illinois rolled out a plan to cure the ills of urban America, just as one of his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, John Edwards, wrapped up a three-day trip focusing on America’s poor.
  In a speech yesterday in the capital’s poorest neighborhood, Anacostia, […]

• 07.17.07
  Chicago News Roundup for Monday and Tuesday July 16-17, 2007   camera, river north, flood, warning, olympics, shootings, roundup, transit, south side, west side, food (0)

  Flash Flood Warnings Issued for Chicago Area
  Flash flood warnings were issued today for Chicago and nearby areas by the National Weather Service as a series of severe thunderstorms moved across the Upper Midwest.
  The storms come packing heavy rainfall that the service could be as much as 5 inches in some locations. These storm drenched eastern […]

• 07.17.07
  SUV explodes outside nightclub   explosion, river north, nightclub (0)

  Police are looking into the cause of an explosion that severely damaged a sport-utility vehicle parked outside a River North nightclub overnight.
  No one was injured when the SUV exploded around 3:20 a.m. in the 300 block of West Erie Street, said Chicago Police Officer John Henry. Bomb and Arson investigators are on the scene this […]

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