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Garfield Park Conservatory Opens 4-Acre Child Wild Garden, First of Its Kind in a City
Garfield Park Conservatory has a sprawling new reason for West Side families to head outside: a four-acre nature play garden called the Child Wild Exploration Garden, packed with climbing mounds, a sensory cave, a prairie maze and a floating boardwalk. Park District Superintendent Carlos Ramirez-Rosa and the district's director of conservatories, Mary Eysenbach, cut the ribbon on the space Thursday at the conservatory grounds in Garfield Park.
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PAWS Chicago Pet of the Week: Finnick
CHICAGO — Saturday’s PAWS Pet of the Week is Finnick, a calm and loving 2-month-old male pup. Finnick is affectionate and loves to be held. Since Finnick is just a puppy, he would do well with an owner who can spend some time on training. Think Finnick is the perfect fit for you? Head to PAWS […]
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Coming Soon! Holly Dolly Christmas
3640 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60613 https://www.bigstarchicago.com. Hours: Monday–Thursday, 11 a.m.–9 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m.–10 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.–10 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m.–9 p.m. BIG STAR HOLLY DOLLY HONKY TONK: Country music legend Dolly Parton is inspiring this year’s Big Star Wrigleyville Holiday...
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59-Unit Tower Proposed for Old Kindred Hospital Site on Edgewater's Sheridan Road
6150 N. Sheridan Rd. — Approximate Site of Nearby 40-Unit Project. A vacant five-story building that once housed Kindred Hospital on North Sheridan Road in Edgewater could soon become a 59-unit residential development, with private balconies, a rooftop deck and a parking garage tucked behind the structure. The hospital closed in 2024, leaving the site at 6124-6144 North Sheridan Road empty ever since.
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Crisis volunteers help address homelessness and mental health concerns near OP’s Green Line
In recent years, Oak Park residents and Green Line commuters have increasingly complained of transit-related grievances including harassment and illicit drug use on train cars and vagrancy around the vicinity of stations. There has also been a noticeable uptick in unhoused individuals utilizing train cars for overnight and weekend shelter.
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Southport Avenue in 1986: Music Box Theatre, Crown Liquors and the Businesses We Remember
A remarkable photograph from the Chicago History Museum takes us back to Southport Avenue on November 16, 1986—nearly 40 years ago. Taken by photographer John McCarthy, the image captures the Music Box Theatre, Crown Liquors and a row of neighborhood storefronts long before Southport became the shopping and dining destination familiar today.
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Notre Dame 31, Miami 24: Final score and recap from a critical CFP game
Notre Dame hosts No. 1 Miami for one of the most critical games in terms of the College Football Playoff. Follow along here for scores, analysis and updates from South Bend. Miami is incomplete on fourth down in the end zone. The Irish get the top they need with 3:36...
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Chicago festival grounds proposal raises questions over benefits
(The Center Square) – Chicago voters overwhelmingly voted Tuesday in support of a permanent festival grounds for the city in a non-binding ballot question. While there was support, the question may have left some with more questions about the proposal. The question, which asked if it should have its own festival grounds on publicly owned land, didn't advise voters of a location, costs to the city’s taxpayers or when planning would begin. Alderman Nicole Lee, the councilwoman behind the ballot question, said a festival site would help shift the delay and closure of public parks after events like Lollapalooza or Riot Fest. After a particularly rainy Riot Fest concluded in Douglass Park, neighborhood residents complained the park’s grass had been entirely killed and the park was mainly a field of mud. Residents complain each year that the festival ruins the park, but Riot Fest’s organizers say they bear the costs of restoring the park. This year, restoration began two days after the festival concluded, and the festival’s founder, “Riot” Mike Petryshyn said it cost them between $400,000 and $600,000. One co-owner of the independently owned music venue Bookclub in the city’s Lakeview neighborhood, Nick Heineman, raised questions in a video
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Craig Perman Opens Wine Shop and Bar in Former West Town Lush Space
Lush closed its West Town location at 1412 W. Chicago Ave. in March, leaving its Roscoe Village shop as its remaining location, according to social media cited by Block Club Chicago. The company had described Lush as a wine shop paired with a bistro. In a separate report, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Roscoe Village sales rose 1% over 2024, while sales at the West Town location fell 9%; it also reported that Lush received a 2025 permit to expand the Roscoe Village storefront.