What The Hell Happened This Weekend? 8 Stories You Might Have Missed
By Jon Graef in News on Mar 31, 2014 2:15PM
- A cyclist who lives in Humboldt Park was attacked by two men early last Saturday, March 22, one of whom wielded a machete, the other a video camera.
- Protestors gathered Friday to call out BP at its Chicago office for the Lake Michigan oil spill.
- According to NerdWallet, who took a look at both daily and monthly parking costs, as well as vehicle theft rates, Chicago is the worst city for parking.
- Wrigley Field is 100 years old. To celebrate all of the dashed dreams and frustrated ambitions of Cubs fans and teams past, we watched the 1984 WTTW television production of Bleacher Bums.
- A Northwestern University student hit the motherlode of creative resume schemes by making a LEGO version of her resume. It's just as cool as you may have imagined.
- A new poll suggests Mayor Rahm Emanuel's standing amongst African-Americans is improving, if only because it had nowhere to go but up.
- The DePaul basketball arena is coming, so the historic Harriet F. Rees House on S. Prairie St. has to be moved.
- Imagine a drunk driver right at your door. That's the startling surprise a Tribune Tower doorman got at work early Saturday morning when a Beige Lexus crashed into a concrete wall outside the news building.