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WEST GARFIELD PARK — A popular West Side hot dog stand has closed days after failing a building inspection and less than a week after a woman was shot and killed outside of the restaurant.
Original Maxwell Street, 3801 W. Harrison Ave., was closed to the public Sunday, though it is not clear if the closure was voluntary or forced by the city.
A worker wa...
CHICAGO — After a brutal summer season, Chicago is finally entering a stretch of nice weather.
Temperatures will peak in the 70s and low 80s this week, dropping into the 50s and 60s overnight. It’ll be sunny and dry for the majority of the week — a drastic departure from the onslaught of extreme humidity and severe storms Chicago has seen this summer, National Weat...
DOWNTOWN — A sculptor and architect have been hired to build a monument to Chicago’s founder at a new lakefront park scheduled to finally break ground this year.
The Chicago Park District has hired sculptor Branly Cadet and architect Rodney Leon to build a statue of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, Chicago’s first permanent non-native settler, at the to-be-built DuSab...
ROGERS PARK — As a new batch of first-year students flock to Loyola University’s Lake Shore Campus for the beginning of a new school year, the absence of the school’s iconic Sister Jean is palpable.
The late basketball chaplain died in October at 106, just weeks after retiring from her on-campus roles.
But members of the school community will still be abl...
CHICAGO — As thousands of Gary, Indiana, residents enter a second week without electricity after deadly storms, Chicagoans are stepping in to help with some basic necessities families are struggling to access.
DeAndra Gathings, owner of Rinse Cycle Valet, a laundry pickup and del...