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Your friend is getting married or may be he just turned 21 and you’re looking for a good place in Chicago to see naked women without having to first buy them drinks. You’ve probably also heard the troubles with going to a strip club in Chicago. Expensive, not many choices, not fully nude, or no […]
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,” […]
According to Wikipedia: “Whiting is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. Whiting is home to the largest oil refinery in the midwestern USA. [1] The population was 5,137 at the 2000 census.” That is, it’s in the extreme northwest corner of Lake County (Indiana, as opposed to the Lake County just north of […]
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 […]
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 […]