http://www.windycitizen.com/taxonomy/term/%2A The latest reader-recommended stories from Chicago. en http://www.windycitizen.com/node/6915 <img src="http://www.windycitizen.com/files/" style="height:72px;" align="right"/> <p>endless Hancock fascination...</p> http://www.windycitizen.com/node/6915#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:59:45 -0500 6915 at http://www.windycitizen.com http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/impact-of-the-foreclosure-crisis-in-chicago <img src="http://www.windycitizen.com/files/files/foreclosure10.20.jpg" style="height:72px;" align="right"/> <p><!--paging_filter-->What happens to a neighborhood when the foreclosure crisis hits home, leading to abandoned bank-owhed homes? Who pays the price? What is the cost?</p> suntimes.com http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/impact-of-the-foreclosure-crisis-in-chicago#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:40:02 -0500 3223 at http://www.windycitizen.com http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/can-you-conquer-the-urbanathon <img src="http://www.windycitizen.com/files/files/urbanathon10.20.jpg" style="height:72px;" align="right"/> <p><!--paging_filter-->The Men's Health-sponsored 10.5-mile endurance run along Chicago's lakefront drew 3,200 who braved an endurance course of monkey bars, concrete barriers and a nice, long stair climb at Soldier Field.</p> suntimes.com <p><a href="http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/can-you-conquer-the-urbanathon">read more</a></p> http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/can-you-conquer-the-urbanathon#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:44:23 -0500 3222 at http://www.windycitizen.com http://www.windycitizen.com/node/3217 <img src="http://www.windycitizen.com/files/files/obamapick.jpg" style="height:72px;" align="right"/> <p><!--paging_filter-->Chicago Tribune Editorial Board endorsement: On Nov. 4 we're going to elect a president to lead us through a perilous time and restore in us a common sense of national purpose.</p> chicagotribune.com <p><a href="http://www.windycitizen.com/node/3217">read more</a></p> http://www.windycitizen.com/node/3217#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:56:20 -0500 3217 at http://www.windycitizen.com http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/first-pay-for-grades-checks-issued-to-chicago-students <img src="http://www.windycitizen.com/files/files/studentpay.jpg" style="height:72px;" align="right"/> <p><!--paging_filter-->More than 1,650 CPS students paid for good grades. 'This is investing in you,' Harvard economics professor tells teens.</p> chicagotribune.com http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/first-pay-for-grades-checks-issued-to-chicago-students#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:08:06 -0500 3216 at http://www.windycitizen.com http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/around-the-coyote-takes-over-a-new-neighborhood <img src="http://www.windycitizen.com/files/files/coyote.png" style="height:72px;" align="right"/> <p><!--paging_filter-->For eighteen years Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood has been host to the Around the Coyote Festival. The festival begins tonight and runs through the weekend, but not in Wicker Park.</p> chicagopublicradio.org <p><a href="http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/around-the-coyote-takes-over-a-new-neighborhood">read more</a></p> http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/around-the-coyote-takes-over-a-new-neighborhood#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:01:52 -0500 3215 at http://www.windycitizen.com http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/the-list-is-open <img src="http://www.windycitizen.com/files/files/EATTHELIST_10_13.jpg" style="height:72px;" align="right"/> <p><!--paging_filter-->EattheList works with local restaurants to create Prix Fixe menus.<br /> We profile the restaurant, location and menu and then notify our subscribers of deals we have setup. </p> eatthelist.wordpress.com http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/the-list-is-open#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:31:50 -0500 3201 at http://www.windycitizen.com http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/uncommon-ground-the-washington-post-profiles-hyde-park <img src="http://www.windycitizen.com/files/files/hp.jpg" style="height:72px;" align="right"/> <p><!--paging_filter-->"No American president has been elected from a place quite like Hyde Park, the home of Sen. Barack Obama."</p> washingtonpost.com http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/uncommon-ground-the-washington-post-profiles-hyde-park#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:00:36 -0500 3196 at http://www.windycitizen.com http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/protest-slated-over-police-assault-rifle-plan <img src="http://www.windycitizen.com/files/" style="height:72px;" align="right"/> <p><!--paging_filter-->Some city residents, led by a youth empowerment group, will demonstrate against Chicago police plans to let street cops carry assault rifles similar to those carried by U.S. soldiers in Iraq.</p> chitowndailynews.org http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/protest-slated-over-police-assault-rifle-plan#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:24:31 -0500 3195 at http://www.windycitizen.com http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/public-housing-residents-say-contractors-arent-hiring-cha-occupants <img src="http://www.windycitizen.com/files/" style="height:72px;" align="right"/> <p><!--paging_filter-->Chicago Housing Authority officials pledge to get contractors to adhere to the requirement to hire some public housing residents to work for them.</p> chitowndailynews.org <p><a href="http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/public-housing-residents-say-contractors-arent-hiring-cha-occupants">read more</a></p> http://www.windycitizen.com/link/2008/10/public-housing-residents-say-contractors-arent-hiring-cha-occupants#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:23:42 -0500 3194 at http://www.windycitizen.com