Posted The CTA Holiday Train Rides Again to Chicagoist
We never intend to be all gloom and doom but when we have to be, we try to provide a little tonic for the soul to bring things back into balance. Take for example, a video of...
Posted Anti-Abortion Activists Protest First Day of "Bubble Zone" Oridinance to Chicagoist
Last month, the City Council passed an ordinance that requires anti-abortion activists to stay at least 50 feet from clinics and medical facilities that perform abortions, and 8 feet from anyone entering the clinics. In the...
Posted 61st Street Community Garden Has No Plans To Die On the Vine to Chicagoist
Garden pumpkin by liz_noise In 2000, the University of Chicago granted area residents access to a two-acre plot of land on 61st and Dorchester to develop a community garden. Over nearly ten years time, the garden...
Posted Streets and San Ready, Steady, Plow? to Chicagoist
Photo by josephp A mayoral aide says the city will be much better prepared for street plowing this winter than last. The aide even referred to last year's cost-cutting policy which entailed using less road salt,...