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Exploring Chicago's Lakefront From Lincoln Park To Grant Park

Lisa Dworkin | Posted 10.13.2012 | Travel
Lisa Dworkin

Enjoy numerous recreational activities, first-rate shopping and untamed nature within the city limits.

Two Planes Collide On Tarmac At Chicago Airport

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.28.2011 | Chicago

CHICAGO (Associated Press) -- Two Delta Airlines aircraft have collided on the tarmac at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Delta spokeswoman ...

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo!

Gena Grish | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Gena Grish

I may or may not have signed my friend up for a Match.com profile without her knowledge to see the type of bites she would receive.

Two Fed Officials Endorse Easing

New York Observer | New York Observer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Presidents of two Federal Reserve banks -- William Dudley of the New York Fed and Charles Evans of Chicago -- today came out out in favor of a...

White House chief of staff to quit

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Rahm Emanuel, one of the key figures in Obama's administration, is set to step down in bid to become Chicago mayor....

Carmelo Anthony is La La Vazquez's bitch on reality show: She shoulda been Nuggets GM?

Westword | Westword | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Basketball fans everywhere have been debating where Carmelo Anthony is likely to land, with Chicago and New Jersey being the most rumored l...

Carmelo Anthony: If trade to Chicago Bulls won't include Joakim Noah, is Luol Deng available?

Westword | Westword | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

The latest reported it-city in Carmelo Anthony trade talks is Chicago, with some onliners floating the prospect of Melo being traded for Jo...

Gena Grish: Writer, Friend... and Nomad?

Gena Grish | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Gena Grish

In a relatively new relationship, when is it too early to leave some of your things behind?

700 New Voters

Karlo Barrios Marcelo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Karlo Barrios Marcelo

In recent weeks, over 100 volunteers hit the streets all over Chicago as part of the new group, Progressive Alliance - Cook County. Our goal: to register as many young voters as possible.

Photos: Lollapalooza Day One in Chicago with Lady Gaga, Matt and Kim, the Strokes

Westword | Westword | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Day one of Lollapalooza in Grant Park in Chicago is in the books. Freelance photographer Mark C. Austin brings back these photos from the fe...

Man Looking for a Rental, Roommate and No iPhones

NY Convergence | NY Convergence | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Vince Thomas, a man who is being transferred to the New York office of a Chicago based software company he works for, recently posted a listin...

Carmelo Anthony's best options: Demand trade to New York or Chicago -- or stay a Nugget?

Westword | Westword | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Carmelo Anthony has lots of options. Melo could sign a monster contract extension with the Nuggets, try to create a Melo-Chris Paul-Amare S...

Ritz-Carlton lawsuit settled

Denver Business Journal | Denver Business Journal | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

A 2009 state court lawsuit involving whether a Chicago lender could foreclose on downtown Denver's luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel ended Monday in light of ...

It's Just Me Against the Universe

Gena Grish | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Gena Grish

Have you ever noticed that when you're looking for someone to date, nobody is around, but the minute you take yourself off the market, it's as if somebody opened the floodgates of eligible men?

Continental earnings beat Wall Street estimates

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

KAMIL KRZACZYNSK/EPAIA Continental Airline plane gets ready to depart next to United Airlines planes at the O'Hare International Airport in Chicag...

And the Survey Says...

Gena Grish | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Gena Grish

As some of you have picked up on, either from my Twitter updates, or the quick mentions in my comments sections of past stories, I met someone a few months ago, and I want to see where it could go.

Why Our School Equity Lawsuit Is More Important Than Ever

David E. Thigpen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
David E. Thigpen

Two years ago the Chicago Urban League and a group of plaintiffs went to court to root out the state's fundamentally flawed and discriminatory funding system.

Was Your Dad a Baker? Because You've Got a Nice Set of Buns

Gena Grish | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Gena Grish

I decided to throw caution to the wind, something I'm actually used to doing in my dating life apparently, and take the oddly charming drunken stranger up on his offer for a date.

Queer as a Three Dollar Bill

Gena Grish | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Gena Grish

He greeted me with such enthusiasm that I could literally see the exclamation points forming around his head like in the cartoon bubbles. At that moment, I would have bet a hundred bucks that my date was gay.

No Peace Dividend From The Department of Corrections

Room Eight | Room Eight | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

The New York Times reported today that New York City's jail population is way down. "Among the 50 jurisdictions in the country with the greatest numbe...

Trans Wheelchair User Wins IML 2010

Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Tyler McCormick took home the title of International Mr. Leather in Chicago on Sunday, setting precedent in several ways for the 32-year-old global ...

Stuck Between a Rock and a (Not So Hard) Place

Gena Grish | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Gena Grish

Why is it that men always think that women want more than they do? Women are very capable of having friends with benefits and nothing more.

Winning numbers for Powerball $170M lottery jackpot

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

AP Photo/Charles Rex ArbogastBiren Shah, of Chicago, displays Mega Millions and Powerball slips at his newsstand Friday, Jan. 29, 2010The winning ...

Druid, Warlock and Rogue Oh My!

Gena Grish | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Gena Grish

Mr. Not-So-Prince-Charming and I met online (surprise!). As my readers and I have discussed in the past, meeting someone online is tough. It changes the whole game of dating.

For Rape Victims, a Dead End on Justice

Sarah Tofte | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Sarah Tofte

The vast majority of DNA evidence collected from rape victims in Illinois is never tested. This backlog is symptomatic of an overall failure by the criminal justice system to respond to sexual assault.