Occupy Chicago: Tent City Raid Leads to 175 Arrests
Demanding their constitutional right to free assembly, the crowd of about 150 non-violent demonstrators waited patiently for the slow moving police procession to reach them.
Demanding their constitutional right to free assembly, the crowd of about 150 non-violent demonstrators waited patiently for the slow moving police procession to reach them.
WBEZ | Posted 11.19.2011
Six weeks after the end of the seventh annual Lollapalooza in Grant Park, Chicago's prestigious "front yard" still has not been restored to its condit...
Posted 11.09.2011
As happy as Chicago may be to find a break in the sweltering heat this week, seasoned pros know the blustery breezes of fall foreshadow the creeping a...
Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 10.09.2011
The desecrated Grant Park looks like a rock 'n' roll battlefield -- the fields are muddy and bare, waste is strewn about and a stench of stagnant wate...
Jeff Pollack | Posted 09.20.2011
Next month will mark the 15th year of Perry Farrell's brain-child, Lollapalooza (not counting the cancelled tour of 2004). It's a great festival with ...
Posted 09.04.2011
While this year's Taste of Chicago festival, the first managed by the city's Park District, lacked some of the chaos that peppered last year's event, ...
Posted 08.30.2011
The new non-profit organization grabbing the reins of Navy Pier as of July 1 on Thursday unveiled their plans for a $155-million facelift to the facil...
The Huffington Post | Joe Erbentraut | Posted 08.07.2011
With today's announcement of the day-by-day, hour-by-hour schedule Lollapalooza 2011, festival-goers finally have the opportunity to plot their plan o...
Posted 07.16.2011
After a long and dramatic journey, Chicago's new Mayor Rahm Emanuel was sworn in Monday. Chicago residents gathered in Millennium Park on an unseason...
The Huffington Post/AP | Posted 07.16.2011
CHICAGO (AP) -- Rahm Emanuel was sworn in Monday as Chicago's first new mayor in more than two decades, a historic power shift for a city where the re...
Posted 05.25.2011
In 2008, the Chicago City Council approved a controversial measure to move the city's Children's Museum from its current home in Navy Pier to a mostly...
Posted 05.25.2011
Remember Lollapalooza? Ok, it was just a few weeks ago--but it seems like ancient history, and many are already speculating about Lollapalooza 2011. ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Independence Day roundup and text courtesy of Citysearch. July 4th, summer's quintessential party, is upon us. Find out where in Chicago to get all-...
Posted 05.25.2011
Obviously, most people battle the crowds and heat at the annual Taste of Chicago for the food, but the musical lineup always attracts a crowd as well....
Posted 05.25.2011
Though the lineup isn't officially announced until April, The Daily Swarm claims to know who is headlining Lollapalooza this year--and considering the...
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011
While ending America's wars sounds logical and direct, I am beginning to doubt I will ever see this in my lifetime, as long or short as it may be. The country has become inextricably engaged in these conflicts.
WBBM Newsradio | Posted 05.25.2011
We do know a little more than three million people have come out to enjoy the food fest over the past 10 days. And that number is down by about half a...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Because some things are better from afar, here's a slideshow of the food, crowds and fun (?) at Taste of Chicago. If you're actually heading to Grant ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO - A Cook County judge has found that Chicago officials acted properly when approving a plan to relocate the Chicago Children's Museum to Grant...
Mike Doyle | Posted 05.25.2011
Outer-neighborhood Chicagoans tend to think downtowners suffer through our central-city lives. It's hard to describe the devotion some of us feel for our high-rise 'hood.
Crain's Chicago Business | Posted 05.25.2011
A Cook County Circuit Court Judge on Tuesday could rescind the Chicago Children's Museum's ability to build a new two-story home in Grant Park....
Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
Between Wall Street and the banks and the oil companies, and saving Detroit, which has been going out of business on a daily basis for 35 years, is there some way we aren't getting screwed?
Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm grateful to Obama supporters who didn't trumpet their insiderness and perks to everyone within earshot. Gratitude is one thing. Tolerating one-upsmanship another.
Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011
Barack Obama, whose hair is slightly grayer now, was elegant and majestic as he delivered his acceptance speech; the victory was and is ours.
Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 05.25.2011
Barack Obama declared victory in Grant Park amid celebration and the wafting scent of an herb now available for medicinal purposes in Michigan and Fook caught the celebration on tape. Hear it on this edition of Keeping Score In Chicago.
Mark Cassello | Posted 12.17.2011