But Protect Our Parks says more legal challenges are coming for the Jackson Park plan.
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Why won’t City Hall fight for Chicago’s homegrown music scene?
The Chicago Independent Venue League shouldn’t have to push back against the Live Nation handouts in the Lincoln Yards development—but City Hall doesn’t protect Chicago’s homegrown music scene.
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Report: The demand for legal guns is on the rise, and other Chicago news
Also, a study has linked high blood pressure to segregated neighborhoods.
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Ten surprising stories from the year in Chicago culture
From Theater on the Lake to spaceship on the park, 2016 was a weird time in the city.
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New school construction could further city’s segregation and other Chicago news
Also, City Council considers new measures on police reform.
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Prediction: Our failure to build the Lucas museum won’t haunt Chicago for decades
The George Lucas museum Chicago won’t built wasn’t that big a deal
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Let’s celebrate the loss of the Lucas Museum
A loss for Rahm is a win for the city’s discontented citizens.
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Rahm on Lucas Museum loss: ‘Welcome to the most important parking lot in the country,’ and other Chicago news
Also, the Becoming a Man program has reportedly lowered violent crime arrests among its participants by half.
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Lucas Museum says so long, Chicago
Lexit? Chexit? Either way, the Lucas Museum will not build in Chicago.
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Chicago Park District slams Friends of Parks’ ‘outrageous’ Lucas Museum demands, and other news
Also, iconic 90s show Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding returns to Chicago.
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Expect a ‘few hundred’ more police officers at the Pride Parade, and other Chicago news
Also, Lincoln Park Zoo is getting rid of its tigers Molly and Pavel.
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National museum group head slams Friends of the Parks
American Alliance of Museums head slams Chicago for not putting Lucas Museum on the lakefront.
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George Lucas is in talks with San Francisco about Lucas Museum, and other news
Also, Rahm discusses a plan to replace the Independent Police Review Authority.
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Anita Alvarez cedes Laquan McDonald case to special prosecutor, and other Chicago news
Also, what it means to have Empire, Chicago Fire, or the other locally filmed TV shows shoot in your home.
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Fans celebrated Star Wars Day with a faux lightsaber battle in the South Loop
Star Wars fans battled with lightsabers in a place much closer than a galaxy far, far, away—the South Loop.