There’s a mannequin staring down from the second-floor window of the Lock Up Self Storage on Lincoln. She has a blonde wig and a stoic demeanor—the sort of world-weariness that comes from being frozen in one spot against your will. When I moved the bulk of my earthly possessions into an eight-by-ten-foot storage unit in […]
Tag: North Side
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Taking the plunge
Early risers who wanted to greet the lake had a place to gather on Friday mornings this summer and fall. Friday Morning Swim Club, a group meetup for early morning swimmers, was created by five friends last summer and has become very popular over the past year. What started as a small gathering surpassed anything […]
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Lathrop launches lottery for affordable housing at revamped CHA complex
One of Chicago’s oldest public housing developments is getting ready to reopen starting this summer on the north side.
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Joe Swanberg’s Easy is easily the most north-side-centric Chicago show of all time—but that’s not so terrible
The writer-director’s personal portrait of the city fulfills the contract of auteur television.
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Rahm’s fleet-facility deal helps the north side more than the south side
The north side gets upscale development and at least $14 million a year in TIFs. The south side gets garbage trucks, and if all goes well, a dry cleaner.
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The politics of Chicago’s potholes
City Council lapdogs aren’t getting their streets fixed any faster than independents.
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Black and Latino areas still bearing the brunt of city job cuts
South-side workers account for three of every four jobs cut by the city since Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office in 2011.
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Unfriendly confines: Did racial discrimination start the Cubs’ slide?
P.K. Wrigley spurned black players at a pivotal time—did his actions start the Cubs’ slide?
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South-side legislator joins the fight for community schools—right before the election
In south-side legislative race, charges fly over who’s the real schools advocate.
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Free Help Applying for U.S. Citizenship
The Logan Square Neighborhood Association is offering free assistance to people applying for U.S. citizenship.
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4/1 — Free “Liar’s Tour” Bike Ride
Tonight from 7 to 10 PM, Lee Diamond leads a free bicycle tour of the north side that leaves from West Town Bikes.
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Who’s the Man? And Who’s the Dog He Bit?
Mark Brown: “Some readers, viewers and listeners, however, believe they have detected a pattern all right: that all it takes to make news on the North Side is a mugging while on the South Side it pretty much requires somebody getting killed, and even then, there has to be a sympathetic victim or other extenuating […]