Midday News Links: Boystown Is Becoming Less Gay

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

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• Author Amin Ghaziani writes in his new book There Goes the Gayborhood that America's historic gay neighborhoods, including Chicago's Boystown, are "straightening" as a result of ongoing gentrification, changing attitudes about gays and lesbians and growing acceptance of same-sex couples and marriage equality. That's a good thing, y'all! [UBC]
• Joe Berrios’ sister once filed a workers compensation suit in order to milk more money from the county. [Sun-Times]
• City Hall would pay out $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the mother of a high school basketball player shot by police four years ago, under a proposal to be considered this week by the Chicago City Council. [Tribune]
• More than one-third of Chicago area home sales are in cash. [Chicago Agent magazine]
• Mancow Muller filed a lawsuit claiming a North Carolina man defrauded him out of $50,000 he said was supposed to be used to help buy some radio stations. [Tribune]