10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (667+ words) HUMBOLDT PARK — An alderperson who federal agents handcuffed and threatened with arrest is now planning to sue. The Oct. 3 incident made national headlines, with video of a federal agent roughly grabbing and then handcuffing Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th) being shared widely…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (157+ words) EDGEWATER — An Edgewater group is hosting a town hall this weekend to allow neighbors to hear from more than a dozen candidates vying to be the next representative for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District. Since Rep. Jan Schakowsky announced this year she…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (762+ words) DOWNTOWN – Hundreds flooded Downtown streets Friday as part of a planned nationwide general strike condemning federal immigration crackdowns in Minneapolis, where federal agents killed two U.S. citizens this month. Veterans Administration nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal…...

3+ week, 4+ 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…...

3+ week, 1+ 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....

3+ day, 16+ 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,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (544+ words) HYDE PARK — An overhaul of Metra’s 59th Street station is set to begin early next year, and the station and lanes of nearby streets will close while the project unfolds. A $74 million project to make the 59th Street station accessible, remove and…...

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…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (895+ words) LOGAN SQUARE — A group of Logan Square renters are asking their retiring landlord to sell the building to them or find a preservation-minded buyer who would not displace them, setting up an early test case for a new city renters…...

3+ mon, 19+ hour ago   (776+ words) AVONDALE — Hanging on the door of Mark Thomas’ office is a black leather jacket with one sleeve dyed red, jewels and spikes on the back and band names on the front. Although the jacket’s 40 years old, it’s in mint condition....