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CTA plan: Priority lanes for some Loop buses
Tribune reporterThe Chicago Department of Transportation and the Chicago Transit Authority released a plan Wednesday for Bus Rapid Transit that could save commuters in the Central Loop three to nine minutes on each trip, CTA spokeswoman Lambrini Lukidis said. The system...Tags: Transportation, Chicago Transit Authority, Trips and Vacations, Travel
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CTA Red Line trains diverted due to man injured on tracks
CTA Red Line service was diverted to elevated tracks throughout the Loop area tonight because of a man injured on the tracks near the Chicago Avenue subway station. The man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious-to-critical condition,...
Tags: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Transit Authority, Hospitals and Clinics
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'Once' and 'Evita' coming to Chicago next fall
By Chris Jones, Tribune theater criticThe first national tour of "Once," the Tony Award-winning musical based on the movie of the same name about an Irish street musican and his Czech angel, is headed to Chicago. "Once" will play the Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph St.) for three weeks,...Tags: Evita (musical), Once (musical), Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Oriental Theater
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Loop bank branch robbed at midday
Tribune reporterA Loop bank branch was robbed shortly before midday today and the bank robber made off with cash, police said. The Citibank branch on the 100 block of South Michigan Avenue was robbed at about 11:50 a.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer...Tags: Citigroup Incorporated, Michigan Avenue, Theft
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Home values in some hard-hit Chicago neighborhoods turning around
Some of the Chicago neighborhoods hardest hit by the housing crisis are starting to come back, or at least appear to be bottoming out. Home values in the Pullman/Riverdale/Roseland neighborhoods, for instance, rose by an average of 18.6 percent last year...
Tags: Realty, Condos, Religion and Belief, Financial and Business Services, Foreclosures
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Depression-era artwork returning to public display
For 38 years, a 6-foot-by-20-foot mural sat rolled up in a local history teacher's home, an all-but-forgotten remnant of a Depression-era effort to bring art directly to the people. But a four-year community fundraising campaign and a yearlong...
Tags: Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Uptown, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Government Postal Delivery, U.S. Postal Service
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First lady coming home to address youth violence
First lady Michelle Obama will return to Chicago April 10 to speak at a working lunch hosted by Mayor Rahm Emanuel that is aimed at addressing youth violence in the city. According to an announcement Wednesday by the first lady's office, she will urge...Tags: Allstate Corp., White House, Chicago Mayor, Michigan Avenue, State of the Union Address
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Straddling the worlds of high finance and community activism
In 1972, Jim Reynolds was less than two months shy of graduating from Chicago Vocational High School, with plans of becoming a television repairman. Raised in Englewood on the city's South Side, he had been studying the trade for two years when his...
Tags: Joe Paterno, Illinois Governor, Gold Coast, Bobby Rush, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company
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Cops: Man grabbed teen girl on Red Line train
Chicago Police are warning Red Line riders to be on the lookout for a man who rode the “L” next to a 16-year-old girl from Rogers Park to the Loop Monday morning, then “grabbed her in an inappropriate manner,” police said in a...
Tags: Rogers Park
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CTA rail system slowest in five years
RedEyeNearly 17 percent of CTA track is under slow zones this month, which is the slowest the rail system has been in nearly five years. The slow-zone snapshot for February shows 16.7 percent of the rail system is under slow zones, which is when a train...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority
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Group sues over new Chicago ward map
Clout StreetMore than a year after Chicago aldermen thought they had settled the contentious issue of redrawing the city's 50 ward boundaries, the new map they approved is facing a challenge in federal court. The remap is unconstitutional because it was designed to...Tags: Gold Coast, Voting, Local Elections, Chicago Mayor, Trials
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20 cars vandalized in South Loop
Windows of about 20 cars were smashed overnight in the South Loop, according to police. Police were called to the 1300 block of South Wabash Avenue around 8 a.m., said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada. Driver and passenger...
Tags: South Loop, Chicago Police Department
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