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evanstonroundtable.com
Candy crush: Local shops welcome costumed crowds ahead of Halloween
Kids of all ages had a chance to test run their Halloween costumes, collect candy and celebrate spooky season Saturday at a massive lineup of events hosted by Evanston business districts. Downtown Evanston’s Trick or Treat Stroll featured sweets and other goodies at participating businesses. The event kicked off at...
Block Club Chicago
One Of Uptown’s Last SROs Saved After Nonprofit Buys Troubled Building: ‘A Huge Win’
UPTOWN — One of Uptown’s last remaining single-room occupancy buildings will be preserved as affordable housing for years to come after it was rescued from foreclosure just as it turned 100 years old. Neighbors, tenants and officials gathered last week to celebrate their successful campaign to save The...
hoodline.com
Near North Parking Lot Could Become Scaled-Back Hotel and Condo Tower
A surface parking lot in Chicago's Near North neighborhood could soon give way to a five-story building mixing hotel rooms, condos and retail, after Stob Hotel LTD filed a zoning application for 864 N. Orleans. The site sits midblock on N. Orleans Street between W. Locust Street and W. Chestnut Street, and the new filing marks a significant scale-back from what was approved there six years ago.
tspr.org
Western Illinois Fiber Fest highlights women farmers and artisans
This fall’s fiber fest in Macomb on Oct. 24 featured a dozen farmers and nine artisans — all of them women. “The fact that we had 12 women farmers under one roof I thought was kind of neat,” said event organizer Lindsey Moore, who owns Little Creek Alpacas near Plymouth.
hoodline.com
CityPads Eyes Eight-Story, 111-Unit Tower for Evanston's Chicago Avenue
A one-story building that's housed the Connoisseur Oriental Rugs store on Chicago Avenue could soon give way to an eight-story, 111-unit apartment building. The developer behind the project, CityPads, submitted a zoning analysis application for the site at 1000 Chicago Ave. and is now awaiting initial feedback from the city before moving forward with a formal application.
southportcorridorchicago.com
What Does Southport Corridor Still Need?
For 15 years, Southport Corridor Chicago has followed the openings, closings, renovations and reinventions along one of Lakeview’s best-known streets. And after all that change, there’s a question worth asking: What does Southport Corridor still need?. A neighborhood that keeps reinventing itself. Southport Avenue between Belmont and Irving...
exhibitcitynews.com
360 CHICAGO Plans 96th-Floor Event Venue for 2028
360 CHICAGO plans to open ELEVAIRE CHICAGO, a nearly 14,000-square-foot private event venue on the 96th floor of 875 North Michigan Avenue, in early 2028. Bookings are scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2027. The venue will accommodate corporate meetings, networking receptions, galas, weddings, and other private gatherings...
oakpark.com
Deep in the weeds, Oak Park debates other paths to affordable housing
Shape Oak Park’s proposed zoning changes and the SB Friedman feasibility study have highlighted that zoning alone does not produce new development. Other tools are needed to see changes in housing and affordability. Oak Park’s inclusionary housing ordinance is a tool that has remained at the forefront for nearly a decade and will be looked at again.
Forest Park Review
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CBS News
Popular Chicago area pumpkin farm might be linked to 5 cases of E. coli
POLITICO
Johnson pokes the business bears
Happy Thursday, Illinois. Thank you to the West Suburban Chamber for a fun conversation talking politics. TOP TALKER BUDGET MATTERS: Mayor Brandon Johnson unveiled his 2027 “Fair Share Budget” on Wednesday, pitching a plan that would raise new revenue from large corporations while investing in youth jobs, violence prevention, affordable housing and neighborhood services. No property taxes : Johnson said the budget would protect essential services without raising property taxes, arguing that Chicago’s largest corporations should contribute more to the city that helps them prosper. Big quote : “Large corporations can and should contribute more to the city, whose people, infrastructure, and neighborhoods make their success possible,” Johnson said. In a follow-up, the mayor’s office says revenue increases would be $664.2 million and projected savings next year would be $840 million. It’s a head tax : Johnson’s proposal would require large corporations located outside socioeconomically disadvantaged areas to pay $25 a month for each Chicago-based employee. Companies could receive a credit for employees working in historically disinvested communities under a new program he called the SEED credit. Going postal : The mayor also proposed a 15-cent tax on single-use mailers and delivery packages, exempting medicine and food takeout, and adjustments
chicagofoodmagazine.com
Call Your Mother Deli Opens in Lakeview
Call Your Mother Deli is opening its second Chicago shop on Monday, October 26, at 2956 North Sheffield Avenue. Founded by Andrew Dana and Chef Daniela Moreira back in 2018, Call Your Mother grew from a farmers market stand in DC into a neighborhood bagel shop that landed in Chicago earlier this year in Wicker Park.