Austin YMCA sold to housing group
The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago announced Friday that it was selling its center in the Austin neighborhood to an affordable housing agency, despite an appeal from community leaders who had...
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City vows crackdown on disabled-parking fraud
Officials from the Chicago Mayor's Office and Illinois Secretary of State Department vowed Friday to continue their crackdown on the fraudulent use of disabled-parking placards in the city.City and state...
Traffic reroute to accompany Chicago Marathon
Streets from Lakeview to Bronzeville will be closed Sunday as 45,000 runners make their way along the 26.2-mile Chicago Marathon route, one of three events that will slow city traffic...
City vows crackdown on disabled-parking fraud
Officials from the Chicago Mayor's Office and Illinois Secretary of State Department vowed Friday to continue their crackdown on the fraudulent use of disabled-parking placards in the city. City and...
Larger animals hearing call of the wild in Illinois
Coyotes took some getting used to as their numbers grew in the Chicago area and people grudgingly learned to accept an animal that still seems just a little too wild...
Unsung hero of debate prep: The stand-in
When President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney debate one another for the first time Wednesday night, they may feel as though they've already done so. As with stage lighting and...
Chicago’s burgeoning, diverse Asian-American community faces challenges
Devon Avenue on Chicago's North Side is vastly different from the coastal city in India that Sam Varghese left two years ago. Yet, in this growing population of old and...
Downtown seeing residential boom; population up 36% in last decade
Alexandra Anderson, a 25-year-old law student at Northwestern University, is among a growing number of people flocking to downtown homes in major cities across the United States, a group described...
Chicago’s burgeoning, diverse Asian-American community faces challenges
Devon Avenue on Chicago's North Side is vastly different from the coastal city in India that Sam Varghese left two years ago. Yet, in this growing population of old and...
Etha Fox, 1914-2012
Etha "Bea" Fox would have eagerly joined the American front line during World War II. But because women weren't allowed to serve in combat overseas, she instead became a lawyer...