Midday News Links: Fighting To Save Lathrop Homes

By Chuck Sudo in News on Jun 16, 2014 6:30PM

Lathrop Homes is on Preservation Chicago's Seven Most Endangered List. (Photo credit: Gabriel X. Michael)

The Reader takes a look at the ongoing fight to save Lathrop Homes, one of the country's first and oldest public housing developments. [Reader]
And WBEZ looks at how college graduates are finding their student loan debt can be an obstacle when buying a home. [WBEZ]
The Blackhawks are reported to be parting ways with Michael Handzus. [NBC Chicago]
Today in cool/weird maps: a horror movie map of the United States. Illinois, predictably, is represented by Halloween. [Bloody Disgusting]
Four Lettuce Entertain You restaurants are donating $1 from every signature cocktail purchased this month to the Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago, the city's only all-girls public school. [DNAInfo Chicago]