Just Kids made me feel proud to consider myself a writer. To explain to my loved ones what I do, who I am and what I hope to one day achieve. And now I was lucky enough, I hoped, to share all those things with an unsuspecting commuter or 20.
Saturday, April 7, 2012 marked Occupy Chicago's official reemergence after a milder than expected winter with a citywide day of action, known as "Take the Spring."
Though it can be admired for filling a void in the local music scene by booking underground sounds and hosting independent concerts that might not oth...
"So what are you waiting for? Your money's going to be no good in a year anyway. Buy this calendar," proclaims the Kickstarter video promoting "The Ap...
For the vast majority of Chicagoans, summer serves as the city's saving grace, arriving on the heels of months of cooler temperatures and precipitatio...
Two "persons of interest" are in police custody and are being questioned in the beating of a 14-year-old boy in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood th...
A 14-year-old boy was in a coma early Wednesday after being brutally attacked in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood while walking home from his girlf...
When Logan Square Kitchen owner Zina Murray announced last week that she was heading to court to challenge three violations she described as "groundle...
The Logan Square Kitchen, a collective kitchen space based on Chicago's near Northwest Side is no stranger to red tape, but after nearly 20 inspection...
As Chicago's real estate market continues to turn away from condominiums and toward apartments, demand for (and, therefore, the price of) apartments i...
The sun shone on Beth White and Ben Helphand on an August Sunday as they stood on a North Side viaduct, each with their feet planted in the middle of ...
The Cook County State's Attorney's Office says two Chicago cops accused of unprofessional conduct will not face local charges. The office says it exam...
Logan Square has changed a lot in recent years. It seems that a new bar or restaurant pops up weekly, and the swelling young population in the area is...
Today, as HuffPost and AOL unite to launch the Huffington Post Media Group, we're celebrating by making a statement about the importance of giving bac...
Restaurants come and go, some quicker than others. Glimpse in Logan Square could be the area's shortest-lived venture: it's slated to last all of four...
"Nerds of Chicago, unite!" writes Chicago Magazine's nightlife reporter Amalie Drury about the Whistler's Wednesday night event. The Logan Square bar-...
Setting up an urban garden in Chicago is hard enough. Aside from the difficulty of growing crops in a concrete environment that spends much of the yea...
Save for a single tree, the lot at 3230 W. Armitage is completely bare. It's plenty big, wide enough for two or maybe three brownstones, but there's n...
Esperanza Medina didn't want jurors to see her cry. She was more interested in showcasing the cruel handiwork that turned her life upside down.
So on...
Thanks to the Logan Square Preservation Society, some of the most beautiful historic homes on the Northwest Side are opening their doors this weekend....
The decomposed bodies of a man and a woman were found Monday night in the basement of a boarded up multifamily house in Chicago's Logan Square neighbo...
"I've lived in Logan Square for about 20 years now," says Marc Ruvolo, cofounder of long-running Chicago indie/punk label Johann's Face. "There's no r...