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A Room Without A View: New Building Goes Up Just Inches From Woman’s Window
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1240+ words) WICKER PARK — The empty lot next to Lucia Whalen’s apartment had become a microcosmic prairie, its tall grasses and weeds visited by neighborhood cats, raccoons and other creatures. It was an unlikely patch of nature in a pocket of Wicker…...
Chinatown, Bridgeport Residents Sound Alarm Over Proposed Amtrak Facility
1+ week, 2+ day ago (884+ words) CHINATOWN — Residents are fighting against a proposed Amtrak maintenance facility they say could have significant environmental consequences for their communities. More than 100 neighbors packed into Pui Tak Center, 2216 S. Wentworth Ave., for a meeting hosted by the Coalition for a…...
Bridgeport Residents Furious About Amtrak Rail Yard Plans — And Fear Losing The White Sox
3+ week, 2+ day ago (800+ words) BRIDGEPORT — Some neighbors are up in arms over Amtrak’s plan to relocate its maintenance facility from the South Loop to Bridgeport, a move that could leave the neighborhood with a new industrial facility — and without a major league baseball team....
Amtrak's Bridgeport Plan A 'Knife Through The Heart' Of Neighborhood, Residents Say
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (905+ words) BRIDGEPORT — Maria LaGiglio says she will sell her house and move if Amtrak’s proposed 24/7 maintenance facility is built about 100 feet from her home. “I have a 9-year-old daughter. I will not raise her like 100 feet away from that maintenance facility,…...