Category: City Side

The governor has wasted no time alienating the very people who helped him get elected.

Aldermen risk Daley’s wrath to insist on affordable space.

A new fee for lap swimming at Park District pools prompts a crusade by a couple of aquanauts. So far, the city doesn’t seem to be listening.

Can anyone save the old Mercantile Exchange Building from the endless tide of development?

While unsuspecting cyclists watched Radiohead in Grant Park, a city crew quietly made their propert disappear.

As the library prepares to take its 16-millimeter-film collection out of circulation, a movie lover scrambles to show the world what’s about to be packed away.

The CTA’s improved access for the disabled may be just a smokescreen for deep service cuts.

New Life for the Eloteros’ Cause

The CTA had activist Adam Kerman arrested for leafleting at a subway stop. Think it had anything to do with his leaflets?

A medly of independent candidates have cooked up a new plan for beating the old system.

Small theaters are suddenly being targeted by city inspectors. Is the city out to singe the fringe?

Elote vendors are still under fire over health issues, but a peaceful solution may be on the horizon.

The city seems determined to make a disabled man’s life even more difficult.

Ever heard of a driveway tax. Neither had Mary Peavy, and it nearly cost her her house.

Why is this state job-training office creeping father and farther away from the disabled clients who use it?