Results tagged “lasalle”

Alderman Howard Brookins Jr. of the 21st ward was hit with a lawsuit this week that claims he owes $41,819.18 in back rent for the Loop offices of his law practice. Brookins didn't know about the suit until the Sun-Times contacted him. Sounds like a fun phone call: S-T: Hi, this is a reporter from the Sun-Times. Brookins: [dryly] Grand. S-T: I'm calling about the lawsuit. Brookins: The what? S-T: The lawsuit? That your office...

The Chicago Theatre is being sold to Madison Square Garden. At least that's what Chris Jones is saying. According to the article, Madison Square Garden Entertainment has agreed to purchase the downtown landmark and is just waiting for a few formalities — like the City signing off on the sale — before closing the deal. MSGE owns — duh — Madison Square Garden, plus Radio City Music Hall and the Beacon Theater in NY. It's...

Aurora's Planned Parenthood can open immediately. How bad do things have to get before Daley will denounce what's going on with the Chicago Police Department's Special Operations Section? Even the Associated Press is saying, "Not since club-swinging cops in baby-blue helmets chased demonstrators through clouds of pepper gas at the 1968 Democratic National Convention have Chicago police been so awash in trouble." Dayum. And yet Da Mare has given no indication that he'll disband...

When Jose Lagoa couldn’t find the necessary ingredients for his restaurant Café Iberico, instead of getting mad he got smart and started bringing back products from his many trips to his native Spain. Word got out quickly among other Chicago restaurants — and not only those serving Spanish food — and Lagoa found himself in the importing business as well. And that’s good news for us regular folk, too. Local Spaniards have known for some time that Iberico not only dishes up some authentic tasty tapas — we’re big fans of pulpo a la plancha (grilled octopus), salpicon de mariscos (seafood salad), and croquettes de pollo (chicken and ham puffs) — but also is a great place to pick up hard-to-find Spanish ingredients as well.

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It might be worth shelling out for Tribunes this week. They have an in-depth feature on the Loop, and we think it might be losing a little something online. Plus you get to have newspaper smell all up in your face. Today's installment in the “Unauthorized Loop” is a history lesson, and, if the rest of this week is as slow as today, we’ll recap the daily updates the rest of this week. Definitely...

Jays Foods is filing a lawsuit against the Frito-Lay company for a billboard on Chicago and La Salle. The billboard in question proclaims that "Chicago prefers the taste of Lay's over Jays.” Jays is demanding to see evidence to prove that; Frito-Lay says that it won’t turn over its taste-test documents.