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Don’t harm the single-family lifestyle

I moved here in 1972, renting an apartment in an E.E. Roberts building, the first apartment building allowed to be built in Oak Park at 113 S. Scoville (1902-3). I am now in a house on Grove. Oak Park, Evanston and Hyde Park are unique. Built up after the Chicago...

Oak Park, IL · 4d

Loyola Phoenix

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Enacting change on Chicago’s high cost of living

Living a big city life comes with big city prices. With the 2026 midterms underway, affordability and living costs have become critical issues among Chicago voters. Chicagoans aren’t alone in their concern. Illinois governor candidates JB Pritzker and Darren Bailey, and standing Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson, have made affordability a crucial tenet of their campaigns.

Chicago, IL · 3d

Block Club Chicago

The Emerald Cup To Open Coffee Kiosk In Former Beverly Church Turned Retail Space

BEVERLY — The Emerald Cup will open its first physical location in Beverly later this winter, but the coffee shop’s owners are no strangers to their new home. Owned by Kelly Devine and Katie McEnery, the Emerald Cup opened in 2023 as a mobile coffee shop with a trailer and cart traveling to farmers’ markets and various events. Based in the southern suburbs, the business has done pop-ups at Church 103, 2501 W. 103rd St., in the past year.

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Logan Square Farmers Market Keeps Season Going With Two More Pop-Ups

HUMBOLDT PARK — The Logan Square Farmers Market is keeping its outdoor season going a little longer with two more pop-up markets planned in Humboldt Park this November. The market’s remaining “Surplus Sundays” will be held this Sunday and Nov. 15 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Erie Family Health Center parking lot, 2418 W. Division St. Parking is available across the street, according to the market’s website.

Chicago, IL · 3d

evanstonroundtable.com

Canadian company buys 500 Davis St. office building for $11.5 million

Amcor Holdings, a real estate investment and management company based in Westmount, Quebec, a Montreal suburb, purchased the office building at 500 Davis St. last month for $11.5 million, Crain’s Chicago Business reported last week. The sellers were a venture of real estate investor Randy Rissman and Bob Wislow of Parkside Realty.

Chicago, IL · 2d

NPR

Chicago entrepreneur turns empty downtown office space into vertical gardens

INSKEEP: (Laughter). INSKEEP: That'd be great, where the waiter can take your order in the NPR voice. In Chicago, an entrepreneur has some really creative ideas. Here is reporter Al Orendorff. AL ORENDORFF, BYLINE: I'm standing outside one of downtown Chicago's office towers. Ever since the post-COVID world made a...

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WBEZ

Two-thirds of 2026 Taste of Chicago food vendors were flagged with health code violations

Overflowing garbage. Backed-up sinks. Food prepped in bushes. More than 800 pounds of food tossed due to improper temperatures. These are just a few examples of food safety problems city inspectors documented during one hot weekend in July when one of the city’s largest culinary events, Taste of Chicago, took place in Grant Park.

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Former McGee’s Tavern Site at 950 W. Webster Could Become Five-Story Apartment Building

A familiar stretch of Webster Avenue near DePaul University could be getting a substantial makeover. A five-story mixed-use development is proposed for 950 W. Webster Avenue, the longtime home of McGee’s Tavern & Grille, and neighbors will have a chance to weigh in at a public meeting on Thursday, November 5, 2026.

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WBEZ

Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright then wronged by neglect, South Park Terrace heads for auction

A picturesque 121-year-old South Side courtyard building inspired by an historic Frank Lloyd Wright design — and featured in a 1995 Halle Berry movie — is now scheduled for auction. South Park Terrace, a Prairie School-styled apartment building at 6116 S. King Drive, is set to be auctioned...

Chicago, IL · 6d

Publishers Weekly

Chicago’s Unabridged Bookstore Changes Hands After 46 Years

Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago, one of the country’s oldest gay-owned bookstores and a finalist for PW’s 2026 Bookstore of the Year award, is under new ownership. Ed Devereux, who founded Unabridged in 1980 in a neighborhood historically known as Boystown, sold the store on October 1 to its longtime manager and chief book buyer Shane Khosropour, who has worked there for more than 20 years.

depauliaonline.com

Chicago’s Pickled Prince passionately pickles to perfection

Spicy pickled perfection is how Brian Greene, founder of Pickled Prince, would describe his pickle business. Although he offers products from across the heat spectrum, Greene said, he has a spicy attitude about everything he makes. Greene and his fiancee Alex Skrzypczyk came up with the concept to sell different...

hoodline.com

South Loop School Building Sells for $70.6M, Keeping British International Campus Running

The three-story building that houses the British International School of Chicago, South Loop has traded hands for $70.6 million. The property sits at 161 W. 9th St. in the South Loop and has served as the school's campus since it opened in 2015. The deal was reported by The Real...

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Permit Issued for Eight-Unit Condo Building at 4447 N. Ashland

A construction permit was issued October 30 for a condominium building at 4447 N. Ashland Avenue, on a midblock lot between W. Sunnyside and W. Montrose avenues in Uptown. Chicago YIMBY reports that 4447 Ashland Corp’s permit application began August 20 and lists a project cost of $2.8 million. The site location and the applicant’s earlier plans for the property were described in an April report by Urbanize Chicago.

Daily Northwestern

Residents, councilmembers decry proposed tax levy increases at special Council meeting

Several residents demanded transparency over the 8.9% property tax levy increase included in the city’s proposed Fiscal Year 2027 budget during a public hearing Monday evening. Monday’s special City Council meeting was scheduled under Illinois’ Truth in Taxation law, which requires municipalities to hold a public hearing when a...

Evanston, IL · 4d

depauliaonline.com

Merz Apothecary grows beyond its neighborhood roots

For 151 years, Merz Apothecary has served Chicago customers with products from around the world. The Lincoln Square store has expanded beyond its original pharmacy products to include skin care, cosmetics and fragrances. But Greta Honold, the apothecary’s Communications Director and DePaul Alumna, said focus on the community has remained consistent.

everafterinthewoods.com

Your Kids Can Milk A Real Jersey Cow At This Free 1930s Farm In Illinois

A Jersey cow here lets kids try milking her by hand, and the farm doesn’t even charge admission. That alone made me sit up and pay attention. The whole place runs like a 1930s working farm in northern Illinois. Goats, donkeys, sheep, chickens, and huge Belgian draft horses all live here, and wandering the farmyard costs nothing.

Illinois · 5d

Illinois Jobs Desk

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Chicago community and social services jobs include case management, crisis response, recovery support, school social work and therapy

Chicago’s community and social services openings span direct client support in very different settings. The Salvation Army seeks a Case Manager focused on housing stability and family services in a lodge-based environment, while Thresholds’ part-time Peer Engagement Specialist joins a mobile crisis team responding to mental health emergencies on the city’s south side. Phoenix Recovery Support Services is hiring a Recovery Specialist for a structured recovery home serving adults with substance use disorder. North Lawndale College Prep needs a School Social Worker to support student well-being and school-based services, and Kaleidoscope is looking for an IPS Therapist to provide short-term, community-based clinical support for youth and families.

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CBS Chicago

Open Books soon to close West Loop Chicago location

Open Books is closing its location in Chicago's West Loop, citing a decline in foot traffic and the rising cost of running a store in that community.