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2 seriously wounded in South Side shooting
Chicago Breaking News
Feb 06A man and a teenage boy were seriously wounded late this morning in a shooting on the South Side in the city's Marquette Park neighborhood. »
Suspect fires shot at police serving warrant
Chicago Breaking News
Feb 03Chicago Police arrested a person who shot at them this afternoon while they were serving a search warrant in the West Englewood neighborhood. »
Shots Fired At Police Serving Warrant In West Englewood
CBS Chicago
Feb 03Someone fired shots at police officers Friday afternoon as they tried to serve a warrant in the West Englewood neighborhood. »
Matt Damon Visits Englewood School
NBC ChicagoLocal Beat
Feb 01Actor in town to headline benefit performance at Metro. »
5 arrested for graffiti on Navy Pier Ferris wheel
WGN Radio
Feb 01Five students who attend a Southwest Side career training program were arrested after defacing the Ferris wheel on Navy Pier while riding it, police said. »
Latest Blog Posts in Detail
Elections 2012: The week in review
ChicagoNow Muckrackers
Feb 03What's making headlines on Elections 2012, on Chicago Muckrakers weekly. On Wednesday, Gov. Pat Quinn delivered a state of the state address in which he focused mostly on job creation and the state's ailing economy. Quinn suggested a higher tax credit ... »
Illinois Attorney General Sues NTC
Illinois Review Political Analysis
Feb 03Continuing to ignore real, systemic corruption in Illinois, Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against Nationwide Title Clearing Inc. (NTC), claiming that the company filed faulty documents with Illinois county recorders. "The practices ... »
Chicagoist: More Neighborhoods Get "The Chicago Neighborhoods" Treatment
The Sixth Ward
Jan 31Chicagoist recently featured the many designs from The Chicago Neighborhoods project. Amongst those shown there are the logos for Chatham, Englewood, & Bronzeville. We already know people from Chatham on Facebook already like the design created for tha... »
The Art in Brewing Beer: Arcade Brewery
Bad At Sports
Jan 30This post is part of an ongoing series about art and beer. Over the weekend, I met artist and brewer Christopher Tourre at his house as he and Lance Curran, his partner in Arcade Brewery, brewed a five and a half gallon batch of beer they call Oatmilk... »
Edgewater’s Winthrop Kenmore corridor – Arson Alley and Appalachians and Indians tumbling like flotsam
Yochicago
Jan 30The so-called Winthrop Kenmore corridor has long been a troubled area, home to a largely transient population. According to Compass Rose: In the 1960s and 70s, when the neighborhood was at its low point, the Winthrop-Kenmore corridor was called Arson A... »