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Housing groups salute banking giant for rehab deal
One of the nation’s largest banks Friday provided details about an agreement with some nonprofit groups in Chicago-area neighborhoods devastated by foreclosures. The deal, revealed Wednesday by WBEZ,...
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Power-plant emissions bill dead, but not for long
A proposal for Chicago to regulate exhaust from coal-fired power plants may be dying. But the bill’s sponsor, Ald. Joe Moore, 49th Ward, says it will come back to life soon.Moore’s legislation is stuck...
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Rustbelt city wants immigrants, skilled or not
Lifelong Dayton resident Monica Schultz, 36, brings me to the East End block where she grew up. “This whole street was full of families,” she says. “Kids were running around playing, all within my age...
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Being here vs. living here: Why EveryBlock mattered
There is a lot of litter on my block. It is not all over the neighborhood or even in front of every house, but it is there and it grows seemingly uncontrollable as the temperature gets warmer. The...
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Divvy blues: Bike-share program leaves some behind
Chicago on Friday morning launched a new component of its storied transit system. Divvy, the city’s first bike-share program, kicked off with 65 solar-powered docking stations. The plan is to add...
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Logan Square, Pilsen and Avondale: Is gentrification always a 'bad' thing?
It all started with fried chicken.And $10 cocktails and doughnuts, too. Well, it is not just about the food and drinks, but often times, the things that drive us to certain neighborhoods now are not...
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Native numbers: How many Chicagoans were born in the city?
Editor's note: Representatives of the Ozinga family are profiled in the accompanying podcast episode and in a multimedia presentation below. At the time of this story's release, the family-owned...
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Swept from their homes, Chicago's Latinos built new community
Chicago is famous for its ethnic neighborhoods. And there’s a funny thing about them. A neighborhood’s identity can seem like it has been in place forever, even when big ethnic shifts took place just...
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Cabbage War: West Ridge vs. Rogers Park
We receive a good number of questions about Chicago neighborhoods: Among other things, we’ve learned how their boundaries are formed, how the city’s roster of neighborhoods grew through annexation, and...
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Longtime Rogers Park butcher hangs up his apron
At first glance, Ed & Erv’s Centrella Food Mart on Touhy Avenue looks like any other small neighborhood grocer. Step inside and the first thing you notice is the smell of mothballs. On the shelves...
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Emanuel counts surprising projects as neighborhood development
Critics of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel contend he focuses too much on what is good for downtown and not enough on neighborhoods.In campaign speeches the mayor vigorously rebutts that. One of his regular...
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