The borders and enclaves of the West Loop

03/11/2010 11:01 AM

In this week's Chicago Journal, columnist AmySue Mertens examines the West Loop's border issues and particularlistic enclaves within the neighborhood.
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Master planning continues at UIC

   03/10/2010 11:02 AM

Buyer sought for Roosevelt Road firehouse

   03/09/2010 4:41 PM

Generators on the agenda tonight

   03/09/2010 9:29 AM

City soup

Lighting illuminated the El stop at Polk and State streets Monday night after a San-Francisco-like fog descended on the city.
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Pilsen's muse

A cantina where art and politics, music and culture flow freely

03/10/2010 10:00 PM

Some nights Decima Musa, a bar and restaurant at the corner of 19th Street and Loomis in Pilsen, is calm and quiet, akin to a living room. Other nights the air vibrates with clinking beer bottles and live music. (No CommentsRead more...

UIC swims in fiscal morass

Faculty, taking furlough days, rally for Near West Side institution

03/10/2010 10:00 PM

Hundreds of furloughed University of Illinois-Chicago professors and students demanded that state government pay the $485 million it owes the University of Illinois system and prioritize higher education in next year's budget at a press conference on Monday.
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Healthy eats

Dissatisfied with after son’s food in the South Loop, couple starts company

03/10/2010 10:00 PM

Two years ago, husband and wife team Jason Weedon and Danielle Hrzic investigated their son’s lunch menu at his private preschool in the South Loop and were disappointed with what they saw. They wanted something better, and decided to intervene.
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Say hello to Lyuba

A 42,000-year-old baby arrives at the Field Museum

03/10/2010 10:00 PM

Lyuba, the best-preserved mammoth calf ever discovered, is the star of the Field Museum's latest exhibit, "Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age," which opened earlier this month. The exhibit transports visitors back to the Ice Age to get a sense of how these huge extinct creatures lived, thrived and eventually died.

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IN THE JOURNAL

Which witch runs this city?

Play sets sights on urban development, with a twist

Generating friction in the Prairie District

Residents fed up with generators’ noise

Buyer sought for firehouse


The principalities of the West Loop

When I am asked where I live, the answer varies because our area goes by so many different names.

Said it before

Say it again: income taxes should rise