Architects awarded for Ickes plan

12/22/2009 9:50 AM

DeStefano Partners has won a design award for a master plan the firm drew up for the Harold Ickes Homes, a Near South Side public housing development that was mostly demolished in 2009.
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• South Loop School discussion continues Monday

   12/19/2009 9:29 AM

• From the archives: South Loop and NTA

   12/18/2009 11:47 AM

• A movie theater and a big box store

   12/17/2009 12:03 PM

Silver screens in the South Loop

The South Loop has a full-service movie theater once again. Last week, Kerasotes opened the ShowPlace Icon inside of the Roosevelt Collection residential development, at 150 W. Roosevelt. On opening night, Jordan Stapleton took in a little Hollywood magic with friends.
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South Loop School council reverses itself on potential upper-grade move

12/23/2009 10:00 PM

South Loop School’s Local School Council voted Monday to support maintaining the school’s current structure until the 2011-12 school year, a decision that didn’t attract the support of South Loop principal Tara Shelton.
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What gets funded when

South Loop district slated for closure, despite project talks

12/23/2009 10:00 PM

How money collected by a special taxing district on the edge of the South Loop will be spent has proved to be a moving target this fall and winter. The Calumet-Cermak Tax Increment Financing district was created in 1998.
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UIC student's deportation halted

Homeland Security will stay proceedings for one year

12/23/2009 10:00 PM

Rigoberto Padilla, a junior at the University of Illinois-Chicago and an undocumented immigrant, will be allowed to stay in Chicago for one more year. Padilla was set to be deported to Mexico on Dec. 16, but the Department of Homeland Security deferred his deportation.
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New slots for boaters

Gateway Harbor marina construction expected to start in March

12/23/2009 10:00 PM

A new marina will be built at Gateway Harbor, between Navy Pier and the Chicago River's outlet to Lake Michigan. The Chicago Park District will oversee the construction of a 2,610-foot-long pier atop an existing pier, providing 240 new slips for permanent and transient boaters and 15,500 square feet of restaurant and retail space.
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Near West Side group reaches out to older people with gifts and company

Yankees fan delivers a big hit


Discussing St. Leonard's

Keeping people on the fringe of society for fear that they will err again more often than not will guarantee they do exactly that.

Poor approach

Why does CPS wait so long to play its hand?