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Comic Fans Dig Through Stacks of Back Issues at This Longtime Illinois Shop

Some of the best finds in Illinois hide behind plain storefronts you could walk past for years. I went in looking for one old comic and came out with a head full of memories and a list of issues I suddenly needed. Picture shelves loaded from floor to ceiling, a...

Oak Park, IL · 1d
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Avenue businesses say ‘welcome back’ with a block party

Since the beginning of March, the stretch of Oak Park Avenue between Ontario and Randolph streets has been through the wringer. Between full road and sidewalk closures, deafening machinery, overhaul of century-old infrastructure, and dust and gravel galore, local businesses, patrons and area residents have faced a highly disruptive environment.

Oak Park, IL · 14h
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Woman-Owned Illinois Plumbing Company Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

Kohn Plumbing, LLC is a woman-owned commercial plumbing contractor serving Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. The company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection on November 3 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Note: Chapter 7 bankruptcy generally involves the liquidation of a debtor’s eligible assets...

Chicago, IL · 1d
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Chicago administrative jobs: assistant, front desk, receptionist, and healthcare supervision roles

Chicago’s administrative openings on this list range from entry-level front desk and reception work to more specialized roles in healthcare and nonprofit operations. The Salvation Army USA Central Territory is seeking a full-time Administrative Assistant to support the Red Shield Center’s office, finance, payroll, and HR-related processes, while Dentologie’s full-time Dental Front Desk role focuses on patient scheduling, communication, and front-office support in a dental practice. Lurie Children’s Hospital has a supervisory position overseeing neurology division operations and staff, and Lifespace Communities offers a part-time Receptionist role centered on resident and guest service. Alphabe Insight Inc lists a full-time Front Office Assistant focused on reception and general administrative support.

Chicago, IL · 1d
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Uptown Farmer's Market Moves Indoors For The Winter To Uptown Taproom

"We’re excited to host the first winter edition of the Uptown Farmers Market, held at the Uptown Taproom (1265 W. Wilson). This will be a small (but mighty!) market with 5-6 vendors filling the space every Saturday from 11 AM to 2 PM, starting November 14th. We're proud to...

Chicago, IL · 2d

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Construction Begins on Major North Center Redevelopment at Lincoln, Damen and Irving Park

Construction is underway at 3959 N. Lincoln Avenue, bringing a major redevelopment to the busy Lincoln, Damen and Irving Park intersection in North Center. The project will renovate the existing five-story former bank building and add new construction, creating 64 affordable apartments, commercial space and supportive services. A historic building...

Chicago, IL · 19h

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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 · 2d

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Riverside Foods named Business of the Year

Riverside Foods has been named the inaugural Business of the Year by the Riverside Chamber of Commerce. Peter Boutsikakis, co-owner and operator of the local grocery store at 48 E. Burlington St., accepted a trophy on the business’s behalf at the chamber’s Oct. 15 meeting. “I was very...

Riverside, IL · 1d

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 · 2d

NBC Chicago

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NBC 5 Responds: How area voters approached tax, spending referendums

The 2026 election featured numerous referendums that could impact consumers’ finances, and PJ Randhawa examines some of those measures.

Chicago, IL · 1d

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Century-Old Chicago Hospital Serving Community Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Amid Mounting Financial Pressures

Roseland Community Hospital Association has officially filed for bankruptcy protection. The Chicago, Illinois-based healthcare provider is currently doing business as The New Roseland Community Hospital. The filing comes amid reported financial challenges, including delayed state payments, Medicaid reimbursements, and rising operating costs. Note: Chapter 11 allows businesses to reorganize their...

Chicago, IL · 1d

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Ware Malcomb Completes Historic Residential Conversion in Downtown Chicago

Ware Malcomb announced construction is complete on 79 W. Monroe, an office-to-residential conversion project located in downtown Chicago’s Loop district. Ware Malcomb’s Chicago office provided architecture and interior design services for the renovation of the historic 14-story building, which included transforming seven upper floors of vacant office space into 76 market-rate and 41 affordable apartment units, along with ancillary amenities.

Chicago, IL · 1d

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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.

Chicago, IL · 2d

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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 · 1d

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Westmont Garage-Condo Project Lets Gearheads Buy Parking for Their Porsches

A new kind of condo is headed for Westmont, and it is not meant for people to sleep in — it is meant for their cars. Torque Motor Suites is planning a car-condominium development in the DuPage County suburb that would give collectors private, climate-controlled garage suites along with a shared clubhouse.

Westmont, IL · 1d

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Draper and Kramer Acquires 268-Unit Albion Evanston Apartment Community in North Chicago Suburban Market of Evanston

CHICAGO, IL - National full-service real estate firm Draper and Kramer, Incorporated, today announced it has purchased a 268-unit luxury multifamily rental building in Evanston, Ill., a suburb directly north of Chicago and home to Northwestern University. The 15-story property, Albion Evanston, will be rebranded as Eva under Draper and Kramer’s ownership. Draper and Kramer will also assume property management of the community, which was 98.5% leased and 98% occupied at the time of acquisition.

Evanston, IL · 1d

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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 · 1d

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The Emerald Cup Owners Building Full Kiosk at Church in Beverly

The Shops at Church 103 is getting another tenant early next year. The team at The Emerald Cup are getting ready to introduce their new kiosk at the building, 2501 W 103rd Street. This will be a permanent location serving many of the same coffees regular visitors of the cart have come to expect. Co-owner Katie McEnery told What Now Chicago the coffee cart is open at the church through the holidays, but she and Kelly Devine are hoping to get the kiosk fully open by March.

Chicago, IL · 1d

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Remember Southport Department Store? A Look Back at a Lost Southport Avenue Landmark

Long before Southport Avenue became known for its boutiques, restaurants and theaters, the neighborhood had its very own department store. Southport Department Store was a longtime fixture near Southport and Grace, on the stretch of storefronts now associated with the Mercury Theater. According to a photograph shared on Southport Corridor Chicago in 2015, the store closed in 1991, marking the end of a chapter in the neighborhood’s retail history.

Chicago, IL · 4d

NPR

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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...

Chicago, IL · 3d