Downtown ice skating rinks open Friday
When Chicago’s ice rinks start opening Friday, skaters will pay more to rent skates at Millennium Park but less to enter outdoor rinks throughout the city. Admission to skate at...
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Maggie Daley Park restaurant deal dead
The plan to bring a glass-enclosed restaurant to Maggie Daley Park is off the table, but Chicago Park District officials still hope to attract a restaurant to the popular site....
Group pushes landmark status for Emmett Till’s Woodlawn home, nearby school
About 2 miles from the site of the future Obama Presidential Center stands a more obscure building in Woodlawn where another prominent African-American once lived. The nondescript red brick two-flat...
Lakefront Trail users want guardrails along Lake Shore Drive
Some Lakefront Trail users and transportation advocates — concerned about drivers veering off Lake Shore Drive and onto the path — are pushing for the installation of guardrails along sections...
Dog park opens in Edgewater
North Side dog owners who have missed taking their pets to Foster Beach since rising lake levels destroyed its dog-friendly area nearly two years ago now have a designated space...
City tests trash skimmer to clean Chicago River near riverwalk
The city is embarking on an initiative to further clean up the garbage pooling in the Chicago River along the Riverwalk. "We get a lot of trash in the river,...
Chicago deflates plan to fly giant pig balloons in front of Trump Tower
It looks like the pigs won't fly after all — at least for now. The plan to install four golden, pig-shaped balloons to block the Trump Tower sign in a...
Transgender veterans take issue with Trump’s tweets
Holly Schilling, a former Army sergeant who was discharged after disclosing that she is transgender, had hopes of someday serving in the military again. Those hopes were dashed Wednesday, when...
Chicago adds rat birth control to rodent-fighting arsenal
Consider it birth control for rats. In a new pilot program on the South Side, the city's Streets and Sanitation Department set up 25 enclosed boxes that provide a nonlethal...
Dog statues on display downtown highlight police canine unit
If there's an unattended bag left on the CTA, 4-year-old Arco and his handler, Chicago police Officer Bob Gilleran, check it out. Arco is assigned to the Chicago Police Department...