Also, less than a quarter of Chicago teens reportedly attend their neighborhood public high schools.
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Historians: The Bronzeville Culver’s is being built on the site of a former Confederate smallpox cemetery, and other Chicago news
Also, an auto parts maker is opening a south-side plant that will create about 300 new jobs.
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Chicago police union hires Jason Van Dyke, and other news
Also, don’t rule out a 2019 mayoral run from Cook County sheriff Tom Dart.
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How much will Chicago’s new digital manufacturing institute end up costing taxpayers?
President Obama and Mayor Emanuel tout a $70 million grant for a site that already received $10 million in public subsidies.
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A dream unrealized for African-Americans in Chicago
When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, most blacks here were living in poor, segregated neighborhoods. They still are.
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As schools starve, Mayor Emanuel finds $5 million for hot dogs
As schools starve, Mayor Emanuel delivers a $5 million subsidy to Vienna Beef.
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This week’s Chicagoan: Gary Stern, founder and CEO, Stern Pinball
This week’s Chicagoan: Gary Stern, founder and CEO, Stern Pinball
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Marguerite Horberg’s post-HotHouse venture, Portoluz, revisits the WPA
Here’s a business model for hard times: hit the street and sell whatever you’ve got. Marguerite Horberg, founder and longtime potentate of the now defunct world-music club HotHouse, was doing it last week, on the sidewalk in front of Robin Richman’s shop on Damen during Richman’s annual yard sale. Horberg was offering passersby vintage clothing […]