In the time it takes most restaurants to deliver an entree, one Chicago restaurateur delivered a cold, hard smackdown to a man he says stole a customer's iPhone. Juno co-owner Jason Chan told the Sun-Times he thought a man in a distinctive Freddie Krueger-style sweater looked suspicious when he walked into the tony Lincoln Park restaurant last ...
DNAinfo Chicago: LAKEVIEW — Broadway Youth Center will be working with a neighborhood group to write a "good neighbor agreement" that must be adhered to if the city approves the youth health center's special use permit, officials said at a meeting Monday night. The Howard Brown Health affiliate serves LGBT youths and young adults ages 12-24 and ...
WHAT'S NEW IN CHICAGO DINING? Chicago has shown it can go toe to toe with any other American city as a great restaurant town, largely for the diversity of the dining scene, its ethnic neighborhoods, its reasonable prices and a considerable mass of locals who like nothing more than going out to eat and drink with gusto. The city's media hype the ...
CHICAGO -- CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls were in the process of pulling away from the Cleveland Cavaliers when the game was robbed of any real significance. Derrick Rose was sitting at the end of Chicago's bench, and he was being attended to by a trainer. The sight of a grimacing Rose made for a tense scene at the United Center, but the dynamic ...
I've had to quit telling stories about crazy exes or women I've dated. The problem was that I started realizing that when my friends and I would talk about our crazy exes or what-have-you, more often than not, we weren't talking about ex-girlfriends or random dates who exhibited signs of genuine mental health issues. Now I did have a few where I ...
“A star-studded entertainment and ice skating show will highlight the official 2013 Detroit Tree Lighting Ceremony at Campus Martius Park. This year’s 10th Anniversary event celebrates the original grand opening of Campus Martius Park and the kickoff of Detroit’s Holiday season with a lineup that will complement the spectacular 19,000 multi colore...
The Lions now sit atop the NFC North by themselves for the first time since 2005. It was also the first time that they swept the Bears since 2007. With two division games left, the Lions are in the driver’s seat for the NFC North. Their next division matchup is against Green Bay on Thanksgiving. This is a favorable matchup considering that it w...
Interlopers with preconceived notions of morbid crime scenes, obscene poverty and the remnants of a city that resembles the fifth level of hell in Dante's Inferno regulalrly descend on Detroit, intent on startling viewers with the horrors of this city – real or not.No doubt Detroit does have more than its fair share of woes, and the city's image...
A bus carrying activists, history aficionados and visitors from other cities weaved across Chicago’s South Side Sunday. Marking five years since President Barack Obama‘s election, the one-time tour stopped at places that influenced the Commander-in-Chief’s life. Organized by Forgotten Chicago, a group that documents Chicago’s lesser-known infrastructure, the tour first stopped at Chase Tower, where Obama first met Michelle Robinson in 1989. It then headed to Altgeld Gardens, a housing project where a young Obama volunteered his time. However, he was not accepted at first, according to Cheryl Johnson (pictured center), whose mother worked with him on infrastructure issues at the houses, the Chicago Tribune reports. “Altgeld didn’t really accept outsiders, and he was considered an outsider,” Johnson told the riders. “He used to come to our house, he used to sit at our kitchen table,” she added. ”He had such cha ...
