Category: Neighborhood News

Another old pal of the governor is denied a job merely because he’s a felon.

The neighborhood parks have never looked better, but we’re paying for it in staff and program cuts.

Alderman Manny Flores is on the hot seat again, this time over a giant Dominick’s that would replace Edmar Foods.

John Vasilopulos says he doesn’t dislike his neighbors because they’re gay. He just thinks they’re jerks.

The Park District was only tring to clean up a toxic playlot, but bad communication poisoned relations with the neighbors.

Activists are pressuring the City Council to set aside housing for the poor. But aldermen take their orders from a higher authority.

The Park District can’t afford $800 worth of equipment to keep a west-side weight room open? That’s less than the price of a plate at last week’s Millennium Park fund-raiser.

Daley says he wants more of them–so why’s the city tearing this one down?

While Mayor Daley trumpets this year’s school fixes, he’s quietly undoing last year’s.

You may still be boot eligible even if you no longer have three unpaid parking tickets.

The neoghborhood’s gone, but a multimedia cottage industry has grown up to ensure it won’t be forgotten.

Why the city didn’t want the wiseacres of Break the Gridlock at its pro-bike rally.

Certain poor black schools are sitting on some mighty promising real estate. How convenient that enrollment’s down too.

The sheriff’s guys can’t track down an alderman?

Without Daley telling them how to vote on the Wal-Mart issue, the aldermen began to turn on each other.