The Metropolitan Planning Council suggests a much more ambitious (and expensive) version of ultra-express buses than the CTA plans to roll out in the next couple years. Plus: a chance to build, or at least judge, computer apps for Chicagoans.
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Riccardo Michi, the owner of Riccardo Trattoria, takes it beyond flatware for his upcoming wine bar across the street, Riccardo Enoteca…
Are three-quarters of Illinois high-school graduates not “college ready”? If by “college-ready” you mean “even odds that they’ll get a D in at least one class freshman year,” then yes.
Top events this week: concerts, dance performances, overhead ogling—all free! Plus, what Grant Park Music Festival’s Carlos Kalmar is doing on his last weekend in town
The issue of redistricting congressional maps is back in the news, with the League of Women Voters of Illinois filing a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming that the new maps are unconstitutional. In July, 11 of 12 members of Illinois’s GOP delegation filed a federal suit challenging the new map. Congressman Tim Johnson, of the 15th District, was the sole Republican lawmaker not to join in the lawsuit. “I’m too busy serving my constituents…
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Back when house prices were rising steadily, sellers could usually expect to cover an agent’s commission with the profit made on the home’s sale. But in today’s down market, with homeowners often selling a house for less than what they paid for it, that commission often comes out of the seller’s own pocket…
The quickest route to image reinvention is a new hairstyle. But then comes that tired old dilemma: Beyond a trim, what can I really do? We found six Chicagoans eager for a makeover and put their fate in the hands of six salons with reputations for courageous coifs.
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