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Woman Found Stabbed To Death In Lincoln Park
CHICAGO (CBS) A woman’s body was found with a knife in her chest in Lincoln Park after emergency crews responded to a 911 call early Friday.
Police received a 911 call about 2 a.m. of a person down and when crews arrived to an area near Diversey Parkway and […]
There are several options for transients in Chicago, semi-homeless men, and usually it is men and some of these places only accept men. One is in Lincoln Park, mentioned in a previous post, called the BelAir Hotel at 424 W. Diversey Parkway. The location is nice with plenty of places to eat nearby and you […]
Wizard World lights up for ‘Dark Knight’
The Joker was serious business over the weekend at Wizard World Chicago, the pop culture and comic book convention that invades Rosemont each summer.
Warner Bros. chose the convention to show the first live footage of Heath Ledger as the Joker and shed a little light on “The Dark Knight,” […]
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 […]
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 […]