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The Dark Knight redux
A curious crowd has gathered in Chicago’s Old Town, where a film crew has spent a good portion of the night setting up shop.
Word has traveled through the neighborhood that the latest in the “Batman” series, “The Dark Knight,” starring Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader, is shooting scenes. People, many […]
BP pollution tiff hits Chicago bond underwriters
A powerful Chicago alderman, upset about oil company BP’s plan to release more pollutants from an Indiana refinery into Lake Michigan, says municipal bond underwriting firms with ties to BP will be excluded from city business.
[via Reuters.uk]
Chicago man diagnosed with West Nile virus
Officials at the Chicago Department of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Obama To Talk About Guns At South Side Church
CBS 2’s Mai Martinez reports that he’s expected to address the shootings of 34 Chicago students.
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Naomi Walley said, “I’m glad that one of the candidates is addressing local violence because it’s become a huge problem, especially in Chicago and with all the deaths of teenagers and high […]
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 […]
Midwest tops for volunteers — but don’t boast, Chicago
Midwesterners are more likely to volunteer their time than are people elsewhere in the United States, according to a study released today.
The highest rates among the biggest 50 metro areas were in Minneapolis-St. Paul, where more than four in 10 adults volunteered.
Chicago, however, was not […]