Do we really need the Great Chicago Fire Festival?
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A leaner, yuppier Walmart arrives downtown
With the opening of its first downtown store, Walmart sticks its foot firmly through the city’s door.
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Hooray for abysmal labor conditions—we’re getting Walmarted
People who are so excited about Walmart’s growth in Chicago aren’t thinking about what it really means for workers.
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Finally–a TIF That’s Actually Needed
A TIF that may actually do what a TIF is supposed to do
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Final Stage?
Patrons of the Amphitheatre’s unique events may have to look elsewhere for their fun.
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The Plot to Destroy North Kenwood
That’s probably an overstatement. But Mary Bordelon isn’t taking any chances.
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Black Metropolis
35th and State was the cultural and financial epicenter of black Chicago. Could it be again?
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New lines in an old battle: the gentrification of Wicker Park
They’re tearing down some of the dilapidated old buildings in the working-class area out west of the Kennedy Expressway, on the near-northwest side, and putting up a bunch of spanking new town houses. A lot of old-timers have been offered five times the money they paid for their homes. The realtors and brokers are all […]
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Bury My Heart at Lot 23
One of the state’s most important historic and archaeological sites is about to become a “private year-round residential/vacation community.”