September 12, 2008 Categories: Art & Entertainment At Play North Side Public Tags: crafts diy renegade craft fair
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Renegade Craft Fair This Weekend Adds Live Music This Year
Quorum Call: City Council Continues to Hold Meetings in Violation of Law
by Michael Acker. Sept. 11, 2008 – Aldermen continue to hold committee meetings with as few as two members present, despite concerns raised by a watchdog group that the Chicago City Council is in violation of state law. The Traffic Control and Safety Committee approved more than 200 agenda items at its meeting last...
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“Shot, Robbed or Beat Up:” Uprooted CPS Students Have Few Options
by Michael Neary of StreetWise Sept. 10, 2008 — The closing of Austin High School a year ago has left families in the neighborhood with stark choices, says a parent in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood, who asked to be identified only as “Johnny.” The only high schools with traditionally broad curricula that children can now...
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Chicago Zoning Committee Gives Green Light to Green Construction Project
Sept. 8, 2008 — A longtime Edgewater resident who wants to turn his home into an environmentally-friendly, multi-use building won approval from the Chicago City Council‘s Zoning Committee on Aug. 26. The proposal, if it wins approval by the full council, paves the way for Frank Pressel to convert his 2-story, single-family home in...
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How Things Happen Today in the Music Business
David Byrne and Brian Eno haven't collaborated since My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and if it took 27 years, the new music seems worth it. They are using a new distribution method, too. You can listen to all the songs, streaming, whenever you want, or download one song for free. Oh, and...
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Share Biking with Chicago
Post your videos and pictures by joining the site (see the sidebar on the right.) Then choose the "Add Something" tab or go to the Bicycling Tab and create a new page. You can embed video with the "Insert Media" button. Enter a title, choose some categories for your post, and don't forget to...
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Sunday Parkways Program Closes Down Roads, Opens Up Neighborhood
by Elisa Tavares Bell Sept. 4, 2008 – Ald. Rey Colon (35th) and other local leaders want Chicago cyclists and pedestrians to fill several major West Side boulevards in October to promote active lifestyles and community interaction. “We already know that telling people to eat less and exercise more is not enough,” Colon said...
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Southside resident complains about city zoning process
by Katie Przychodzen. Sept. 3, 2008 – Southside resident Menjiwei Latham said she felt excluded from the process last week after a Chicago City Council committee approved a zoning change against her requests. Latham, a retired elementary school teacher, said she met with Ald. Freddrenna Lyle (6th) last spring to discuss the building going...
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What Chicagotalks was Talking About — Labor Day 2008
“Tag Clouds” are a visualization tool. As an online publication adds “tags” which are identifiers designed to make electronic searches work effectively, the idea of viewing content by creating an image in which the most common tags are listed, and the size of the word indicates how often that tag was used, is gaining...
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Eat to Live This Saturday in Bronzeville
DuSable Museum of African American History – Give the People What They Need: Good Greens Festival 2008: Eat to Live With all the city's farmers markets and
various other grocery outlets around, it's hard to imagine that many
Chicagoans live in “food deserts,” or areas where fresh fruits and
veggies are scarce. Congressman Bobby L. Rush recently...
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