By LORRAINE SWANSON
Editor
In an all too familiar scene that is being played out across city neighborhoods in Chicago’s bucket-of-blood summer, this time it was Uptown’s turn to gather in front of street shrine of holy candles and stuffed animals for a murdered neighbor.
More than a hundred residents turned out for an uneasy…
Build it and they will come. Mayor Daley and Ald. Helen Shiller open the new Target store at Wilson Yard.
Molly Phelan, who declared her candidacy for 46th Ward alderman on Wednesday, says she’s “sick of the lying, I’m sick of the kids getting killed in our streets, and I’m sick of money being taken from our schools and given away in backroom deals in city hall.”
Lake Effect News received the following information from 48th Ward Ald. Mary Ann Smith’s office regarding traffic control and street closures in the area. The city’s 15-minute fireworks display starts at 9 p.m. on July 4, along the lakefront between Lawrence and Foster, which adds up to hours of traffic…
A Sunday evening shooting sends hundreds celebrating Pride Weekend scurrying for cover in Uptown.
It’s no secret that James Cappleman has been planning another run for 46th Ward alderman. On Saturday, he officially jumped into the fray.
Uptown residents work against the clock to lobby city officials to scale back a developer’s plans to redevelop the former Columbus-Maryvile property. “It’s humongously out of scale with the buildings around it,” says architect Janis Tiffin.
Summer comes to Chicago’s Far North Side with many recurring summer-long events starting this week.
For the second time since March, fire broke out at Lawrence House in Uptown on Sunday. The good news is that the building’s fire alarm system is working.
