Reggae-heavy festival in Union Park this weekend.
Tag: Vol. 38 No. 46
Issue of Aug. 6 – 12, 2009
Posted inNews & Politics
Mr. Big Spender
The Central Loop tax increment financing district—the oldest and largest TIF of them all—came in with a boom and went out with a binge.
Posted inBlogs
Bikers: Beware of Thing-Throwing Jackasses
A new Colorado law making it illegal to throw things at cyclists elicits comments from Chicagoans about the horrors of bike commuting here.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
If Treasures Could Talk
Painter and musician Mary Barnes-Gingrich donates a suite of four canvases, The Four Seasons, to the Recycled Art benefit at the Art Center in Highland Park. Paintings from the Como Inn restaurant and studies by Tricia Vail are also among many items for sale at the benefit.