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Modernist 79th Street dry cleaners featured in film ‘Ali’ and Chance the Rapper’s video set to close
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (744+ words) Pride Cleaners, 558 E. 79th St., is scheduled to close Friday, after 67 years in business. Pride Cleaners is a Space Age spectacle in Chatham, with its radically tilted concrete roof and colorful freestanding Vegas-style sign beckoning customers " and devotees of modernist architecture " for…...
Loop skyscraper that replaced Louis Sullivan masterpiece heads toward landmark protection
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (870+ words) Looking up at 30 N. LaSalle St. in the Loop. When architect Louis Sullivan's famed Chicago Stock Exchange Building was wrecked in 1972 to make room for a 44-story office tower, it caused an outrage that made national headlines and birthed the city's…...
Broadview ICE facility a ‘black box’ where immigrants denied access to lawyers, medicine: lawsuit
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (495+ words) Heidi Rodriguez joins dozens of protesters near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in suburban Broadview on Oct. 17, 2025. For months, immigrants held at the federal Broadview ICE facility have been describing terrible conditions they've experienced: overcrowding, poor food, nowhere to…...
Woman shot by Border Patrol is charged; Brighton Park residents say feds antagonized the community
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (994+ words) A federal officer wears a gas mask in a confrontation with protesters in the 3900 block of South Kedzie Avenue in Brighton Park on Saturday. Authorities allege a man and woman were part of a convoy trying to disrupt federal law…...
As Sundays on State returns, businesses say street fests are a welcome boost
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (1206+ words) Michelle Post, general manager of Gayle V's Best Ever Grilled Cheese, prepares a sandwich in the Loop restaurant, a longtime vendor at Sundays on State. The Loop will host its annual arts and culture festival, Sundays on State, this weekend,…...
Car, bike, public transit: What’s the best way to get around town?
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (275+ words) Who would win in a race between commuters in a car, on a bike and riding the Chicago Transit Authority? Curious City team members (from left) Susie An, Erin Allen and Justin Bull competed in a good old-fashioned transit race…...
What’s That Building? Water Tower Place
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (800+ words) The mostly windowless exterior of Water Tower Place. Later this year will mark 50 years since Chicagoans had their first chance to enter Water Tower Place, an eight-story shopping mall at the base of a 74-story tower with condos and a…...
Chicago has been the rattiest city in the US for 10 years. Is rat birth control the answer?
11+ mon, 2+ day ago (148+ words) Arizona-based company SenesTech is deploying rat "birth control" in bait boxes across Wicker Park and Bucktown as part of a three-month pilot program. A city rat poisoning sign on a pole in an alleyway near the 5800 block of North Kenmore…...
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