3+ day, 12+ 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+ 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…...

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+ 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…...

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…...

3+ mon, 15+ 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....

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…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (441+ words) BEVERLY — After 10 years in Beverly, Ancestry Moon Art Studio will close its doors on Western Avenue, according to the art shop’s owner, Salima Cobb-Collins. Cobb-Collins opened Ancestry Moon in 2015. The former Beverly resident founded the art studio at 10338 S. Western…...

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…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1038+ words) UPTOWN — Neighbors are rallying to save two of the last remaining single-room occupancy buildings in Uptown, whose potential closure could leave longtime residents displaced or facing homelessness. The two buildings — the Chatelaine and the Northmere — are the latest single-room occupancy…...