Results tagged “onoctober”

For over three years, artist Kathy Kozan has been keeping tabs on the unruly and often violent last call atmosphere at Chromium nightclub on her website LAKEandHALSTED.com. Her mission to detail the constant fights, shootings, and other misbehavior spilling out onto the street below her residence has attracted the likes of Channel 7's Chuck Goudie and, this week, Inside Edition. Kozan's persistence apparently paid off. On October 29th the city revoked all of Chromium's...

The October foodie calendar kicks off in a major way Monday night when Intelligentsia hosts a tasting of the fabled Panamanian Hacienda La Esmeralda at their Fulton Street roasting works. Last May, Intelligentsia made headlines for purchasing 100 pounds of La Esmeralda for $130 a pound at the Best of Panama auction (okay, carry the one … yeah! That’s a lot of money for coffee). It’s the highest amount ever paid for coffee. On October...

Vegan Dinner is a blog that was recently launched to chronicle the attempts of one Chicago couple to eat 365 different vegan meals in 365 days. According to their info page, Ian and Kit have been married and living in Chicago since June of this year. Ian has been a vegan for the past nine years, while Kit has to pass on the vegan lifestyle due to medical reasons.

Yesterday in Park Forest 43 sixth-graders and four kingergarteners were sickened by their school’s food.