An informational meeting on the proposal will be held April 24 at the Thompson Center. more ›

• The taxi driver charged with aiding Al-Qaeda must remain in jail but was granted a hearing at which the feds must reveal some of the evidence against him.
• The state is moving forward on an effort to privatize the lottery.
• Downtown's IBM Building and the Andersonville Commercial Historic District neighborhood were added to the National Register of Historic Places.

This week, we're taking another visit back to our childhood stomping grounds on the Northwest side. But we're going way back, waaayyy back to 1917. Our father's side of the family immigrated to America from Greece four years earlier, settling in Greektown. Our mother's side of the family was at least a decade away from moving to the East Village from Virginia. The photo you're looking at at the top of this entry is... more ›

In an announcement that has stunned Chicagoist (no, not really), the National Park Service has recommended that Soldier Field's landmark status be withdrawn and that the stadium also be removed from the National Register of Historic Places. more ›

Chicago historians and architecture buffs who are in a rage over the impending demolition of Cook County Hospital will be happy to know that the National Trust for Historic Preservation named the historic site to its 11 Most Endangered Historic Places of 2004 list. Well, not happy per-se, but psyched for the backup. Cook County Hospital (handy map) was built in 1913 and was home to the first blood bank in the world in... more ›