The suburb says the cameras provided no safety benefits, but did generate lots of angry phone calls.
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Mike Stephen extols the magic of the slow cooker, talks to a reporter who wrote about the rampant sub-par nursing home care in Illinois, chats about urban gardening with local blogger Mr.
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Rogers Park 'Ghettoplex' reopens, now less ghetto and more retro
After being under renovation for a while, the theater once known at the "ghettoplex" reopens. The movie theater was known for BYOB (bring your own bag, and get it filled with popcorn).
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"The downturn has accomplished what a generation of designers and planners could not," writes Michael Cannell, on FastCompany.com. "It has turned back the tide of suburban sprawl."
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Sounds like the Rezko property in the South Loop has some interesting residents - coyotes. And fun fact, according the Field Museum's coyote man, coyotes not only eat house cats, but ...
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When streets are renamed or built over, the old names are forgotten along with their namesakes.
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