Image by Getty Images via Daylife Crain’s says that the Tribune has closed on the sale of the Cubs. “Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tribune has insisted in the past that much of it be financed with debt to limit the media company’s exposure to the capital gains tax. The Chicago-based media company... »

By Patrick Barry of LISC Chicago July 6, 2009 – Remember Sunday Parkways, that experiment last fall that closed down Chicago boulevards to cars and opened them up to thousands of cyclists, pedestrians and skaters? It’s back. Renamed Open Streets, it will take place this year on Saturday, August 1, across 7.5 miles of wide-open... »