What The Hell Happened This Weekend? 10 Stories You Might Have Missed
By Jon Graef in News on Jan 13, 2014 3:00PM
- Though full service was restored by early Saturday morning, a late night fire on Chicago's Blue Line forced the evacuation of 150 passengers between the O'Hare and Cumberland stops.
- Avondale metal-themed burger joint Kuma's Corner is holding a record release party for Chicago doom metal band Indian on January 19 at 9:00 p.m.
- The grisly details that have emerged in two separate Chicago Police Department torture scandals this week are decidedly not a good look for a police department focused on police legitimacy
- Via Chicago Sun-Times' Digital Editor Brandon Wall comes a picture reportedly taken in the city's Northwest side Portage Park neighborhood. The dibs display was the work of comedian Brendan Gardiner.
- Chef Grant Achatz sent out a message on micro social networking site Twitter regarding his conflicted feelings about parents who brought an infant to Alinea. Maybe the child wanted deconstructed breast milk?
- World Star Hip-Hop has a 40-minute documentary about violence in Chicago and its relationship to hip-hop. The film is a compelling, intense watch full of beautiful imagery of Chicago
- Friends of Chicagoist Allà sent over the latest single from local singer Sellasia, "I Don't Want (Anybody)," which they produced in a last-minute, late night collaboration.
- Like Wicker Park before it, an area of the city once associated with crime and gangland activity is quickly becoming a modern haven for investors and local businesses.
- The holidays muted the loud outcry over mounds of oil refining waste heaping up along the banks of the Calumet River, but expect things to get loud again at a public hearing Monday night.
- Something new has popped up in a small lot on Halsted and 34th Streets in the Bridgeport neighborhood, and its goal is community awareness and togetherness.