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2006-2007 vehicle stickers are on sale.
City of Chicago- The city encourages residents to buy the new stickers online. They will no longer be available at the DMV in the 5400-block of North Elston or the 9900-block of South King Drive. City officials said the locations could no longer handle the volume of people. For more information, or to buy a city sticker, visit chicityclerk.com/licenses/citystickers.html
Evanston's Farmers Market Stands Out
Evanston Roundtable- "Quality Products, at Fair Prices, Sold by Nice People, Can't Go Wrong." Adolph Dongvillo of St. Joseph, Michigan at Evanston's 2004 market. Anyone who moved to Evanston after 1975 may be excused for thinking the farmers market is a natural part of the territory; it seems so quintessentially Evanston. But it was not always so. When my husband and I arrived here in 1957, we bought summer-fresh produce from a truck farmer on the high Ridge Road. At Rengels' farm stand in Wilmette, we stood in line on Saturday mornings, hoping the corn-on-the-cob supply held out. More...
District Wants To Crack Down On Blog Content Students Would Be Held Accountable For Online Behavior
(CBS) In the age of information, more and more young people are using social networking Web sites to share their personal lives with others.Sometimes, they're sharing information that is not only private, but inappropriate.
CBS 2's Mai Martinez reports on how one school district hopes to crack down on such behavior.Students know the following Web sites by name: MySpace, Zenga and Facebook. But some of the information they're sharing could soon land them in trouble, at least in one suburban school district. More....
Recent rains came too late to save many trees
Redstreak - Jim DeHorn suffered through the big drought of 2005 along with the trees he advocates for as coordinator of the Openlands Project's TreeKeepers program. Now the rains have come. Why is DeHorn so glum? Because he sees so many trees that didn't make it through the winter and so many that may not survive another. Like a mourner at a gravesite, DeHorn stood by a leafless green ash last week at the North Park Village Nature Center, 5801 N. Pulaski, and remembered it in better days. More....
Hit-run near zoo enrages neighbors
Tribune More....
Charges pending in hit-run death near zoo
Sun Times
Chicago Police Officer Steve Shoup was busy pulling over motorists Sunday afternoon at an intersection near Lincoln Park Zoo a day after 4-year-old Maya Hirsch was killed there by a hit-and-run driver. He wrote five tickets to drivers who rolled through stop signs at Belden and Lincoln Park West. "I'm calling it a 'Maya stop' in honor of the little girl who died," said Shoup, one of the officers who responded to the fatal accident Saturday. More....
CHA chief's former ward rakes in contractor cash
Sun Times
It doesn't build things, and its precincts hold no public housing projects. But for the 17th Ward Democratic Organization, money from public housing contractors keeps rolling in. The 17th Ward organization, which has ties to Chicago Housing Authority chief executive Terry Peterson, took in 61 percent of its 2005 political contributions from CHA contractors, up from 37 percent the year before, according to a recent study by the Better Government Association and Residents' Journal, a publication for CHA residents. More.....
Big bet on Loop office rebound
Crains
The investment arm of CB Richard Ellis Inc. has agreed to pay $137 million for the largely vacant office tower at 190 S. LaSalle St. — a bold wager on the recovery of the downtown office rental market.Emerging from a crowded field of bidders, Los Angeles-based CB Richard Ellis will pay more than $170 a square foot for the nearly 800,000-square-foot skyscraper, people familiar with the transaction say.
That's a steep price for a building that's less than half leased. More... More....
Bank Heist Hotspot
Daily Southtown
With greater frequency, a teller's friendly "May I help you?" is answered with "gimme the cash" in hundreds of banks around Chicago. Bandits are breaking records, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation responding last year to 238 bank robberies in the Chicago metro area, up from 160 in 2004. Robbers, masked and barefaced, armed and insinuating weapons, knocked off 47 Southland financial institutions, from Beverly to New Lenox, more than the 30 in the western suburbs and 19 north of the city. More.....
Women's Soccer Team Releases Apology For Negative Attention
Daily Northwestern
Members of the Northwestern women's soccer team came together and issued their first official comment Saturday following allegations of hazing on May 15. The team wrote a letter addressed to "the Northwestern community" and passed it on to coach Jenny Haigh with the intention of having it released to The Daily. More....
Syphilis rates a sore spot for Chicago
Medill
Syphilis infection rates spiked by 36 percent in Chicago and 20 percent Downstate from 2004 to 2005, with the vast majority of cases being among men who have sex with other men.
Syphilis infection rates spiked by 36 percent in Chicago and 20 percent Downstate from 2004 to 2005, with the vast majority of cases being among men who have sex with other men. More....
The ABC's and MBA's of Risk
Crains
There's money in the risk business. There's money in teaching it, too. Several Chicago-area business schools are looking to cash in on the trend by expanding the scope of their risk-management progra... More...
Lyme Disase Ticks Found Here
Sun Times
Those two discoveries -- the result of tips from local forest preserve workers -- were the first populations documented in DuPage or Cook counties. More....
Data crackdown gets its man--wrong one
Tribune
Few would mistake John Kolar for a security threat.The 85-year-old North Riverside resident sports thick bifocals, and what's left of his hair is gray. He speaks in calming, grandfatherly tones and is known to wear sweater vests.He looks more like Mr. Rogers than Mr. Moussaoui.Earlier this month, however, Kolar was denied a new driver's license--not because of a driving infraction, but because he was snared by security measures put in place by the Illinois secretary of state's office in the wake of 9/11. More...
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2006-2007 vehicle stickers are on sale.
City of Chicago- The city encourages residents to buy the new stickers online. They will no longer be available at the DMV in the 5400-block of North Elston or the 9900-block of South King Drive. City officials said the locations could no longer handle the volume of people. For more information, or to buy a city sticker, visit chicityclerk.com/licenses/citystickers.html
Evanston's Farmers Market Stands Out
Evanston Roundtable- "Quality Products, at Fair Prices, Sold by Nice People, Can't Go Wrong." Adolph Dongvillo of St. Joseph, Michigan at Evanston's 2004 market. Anyone who moved to Evanston after 1975 may be excused for thinking the farmers market is a natural part of the territory; it seems so quintessentially Evanston. But it was not always so. When my husband and I arrived here in 1957, we bought summer-fresh produce from a truck farmer on the high Ridge Road. At Rengels' farm stand in Wilmette, we stood in line on Saturday mornings, hoping the corn-on-the-cob supply held out. More...
District Wants To Crack Down On Blog Content Students Would Be Held Accountable For Online Behavior
(CBS) In the age of information, more and more young people are using social networking Web sites to share their personal lives with others.Sometimes, they're sharing information that is not only private, but inappropriate.
CBS 2's Mai Martinez reports on how one school district hopes to crack down on such behavior.Students know the following Web sites by name: MySpace, Zenga and Facebook. But some of the information they're sharing could soon land them in trouble, at least in one suburban school district. More....
Recent rains came too late to save many trees
Redstreak - Jim DeHorn suffered through the big drought of 2005 along with the trees he advocates for as coordinator of the Openlands Project's TreeKeepers program. Now the rains have come. Why is DeHorn so glum? Because he sees so many trees that didn't make it through the winter and so many that may not survive another. Like a mourner at a gravesite, DeHorn stood by a leafless green ash last week at the North Park Village Nature Center, 5801 N. Pulaski, and remembered it in better days. More....
Hit-run near zoo enrages neighbors
Tribune More....
Charges pending in hit-run death near zoo
Sun Times
Chicago Police Officer Steve Shoup was busy pulling over motorists Sunday afternoon at an intersection near Lincoln Park Zoo a day after 4-year-old Maya Hirsch was killed there by a hit-and-run driver. He wrote five tickets to drivers who rolled through stop signs at Belden and Lincoln Park West. "I'm calling it a 'Maya stop' in honor of the little girl who died," said Shoup, one of the officers who responded to the fatal accident Saturday. More....
CHA chief's former ward rakes in contractor cash
Sun Times
It doesn't build things, and its precincts hold no public housing projects. But for the 17th Ward Democratic Organization, money from public housing contractors keeps rolling in. The 17th Ward organization, which has ties to Chicago Housing Authority chief executive Terry Peterson, took in 61 percent of its 2005 political contributions from CHA contractors, up from 37 percent the year before, according to a recent study by the Better Government Association and Residents' Journal, a publication for CHA residents. More.....
Big bet on Loop office rebound
Crains
The investment arm of CB Richard Ellis Inc. has agreed to pay $137 million for the largely vacant office tower at 190 S. LaSalle St. — a bold wager on the recovery of the downtown office rental market.Emerging from a crowded field of bidders, Los Angeles-based CB Richard Ellis will pay more than $170 a square foot for the nearly 800,000-square-foot skyscraper, people familiar with the transaction say.
That's a steep price for a building that's less than half leased. More... More....
Bank Heist Hotspot
Daily Southtown
With greater frequency, a teller's friendly "May I help you?" is answered with "gimme the cash" in hundreds of banks around Chicago. Bandits are breaking records, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation responding last year to 238 bank robberies in the Chicago metro area, up from 160 in 2004. Robbers, masked and barefaced, armed and insinuating weapons, knocked off 47 Southland financial institutions, from Beverly to New Lenox, more than the 30 in the western suburbs and 19 north of the city. More.....
Women's Soccer Team Releases Apology For Negative Attention
Daily Northwestern
Members of the Northwestern women's soccer team came together and issued their first official comment Saturday following allegations of hazing on May 15. The team wrote a letter addressed to "the Northwestern community" and passed it on to coach Jenny Haigh with the intention of having it released to The Daily. More....
Syphilis rates a sore spot for Chicago
Medill
Syphilis infection rates spiked by 36 percent in Chicago and 20 percent Downstate from 2004 to 2005, with the vast majority of cases being among men who have sex with other men.
Syphilis infection rates spiked by 36 percent in Chicago and 20 percent Downstate from 2004 to 2005, with the vast majority of cases being among men who have sex with other men. More....
The ABC's and MBA's of Risk
Crains
There's money in the risk business. There's money in teaching it, too. Several Chicago-area business schools are looking to cash in on the trend by expanding the scope of their risk-management progra... More...
Lyme Disase Ticks Found Here
Sun Times
Those two discoveries -- the result of tips from local forest preserve workers -- were the first populations documented in DuPage or Cook counties. More....
Data crackdown gets its man--wrong one
Tribune
Few would mistake John Kolar for a security threat.The 85-year-old North Riverside resident sports thick bifocals, and what's left of his hair is gray. He speaks in calming, grandfatherly tones and is known to wear sweater vests.He looks more like Mr. Rogers than Mr. Moussaoui.Earlier this month, however, Kolar was denied a new driver's license--not because of a driving infraction, but because he was snared by security measures put in place by the Illinois secretary of state's office in the wake of 9/11. More...
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