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Woman Dies After Fall from Building on Chicago's Magnificent Mile, Investigation Underway
A woman died after falling from a building on Chicago's Magnificent Mile; police are investigating the incident.
New Oak Park Field Center building set to rise from the earth
The building that will replace the 1926 Field Center in Oak Park will be made from rammed earth, local soil that is ...
Picketers shut down construction sites in 1969 in push for more Black union jobs
Black activists shut down Chicago building sites in 1969 in a push for unions to admit more Black and minority members.
Review: ‘Leonora’ at Chicago Opera Theater is a shakily delivered discovery
Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theater present two versions of the same story this week: Beethoven’s more famous “Fidelio” and ...
The Chicago Temple is turning 100. Its birthday gift to itself? Fixing its historic organ.
Called the Opus 414, it has 5,589 pipes and was completed in 1923, a year before the skyscraper church building was completed ...
Carpentersville hires firm to come up with designs, cost estimates for new village hall/police department
The Carpentersville Village Board has hired an architectural firm to come up with designs and cost estimates for building a ...
Amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, conviction vacated for final defendant charged in 2011 slaying of CPD Officer Clifton Lewis
During a tense hearing in front of a packed courtroom on Wednesday afternoon, a Cook County judge ordered a new trial for a ...
New Harry Potter exhibit, along with Spanish clothing retailer Mango, could work a little magic on the Mag Mile
It won’t be the first time on the Mile for either Harry Potter or Mango. Water Tower Place hosted a Harry Potter pop-up ...
Building checked for structural damage overnight after sedan strikes a pillar on Michigan Avenue
Chicago firefighters cleared a building for structural damage overnight after a sedan blew a red light and hit another vehicle that veered into a pillar for a building on Michigan Avenue, Chicago ...
Former Hobart bar will be torn down soon
A long-shuttered watering hole in Hobart is set to meet a wrecking ball in the near future, but it’s up to its owner to redevelop the property once the building is torn down, Hobart Mayor ...
Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management to construct new high-tech building on Evanston’s lakefront
The facility will replace the Kellogg School of Management’s James L. Allen Center, nearly doubling the number of classroom ...
Woman’s deadly fall in heart of Magnificent Mile ruled suicide: autopsy
The 43-year-old woman fell from the roof of a building in the 600 block of North Michigan Avenue around 6:30 p.m., police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy on Thursday determined ...