What The Hell Happened This Weekend? 8 Stories You May Have Missed
By Chuck Sudo in News on Feb 23, 2015 4:30PM
- Concessions by BP and KCBX Terminals made it a big week for petcoke protesters on the Southeast Side.
- Embrace the sweet street meat: New York City's Halal Guys will open in Chicago this summer.
- If you live near the Town Hall police district you're familiar with the sound of car alarms. More car alarm reports happen there than any police district in the city.
- Thanks to this colder than average February, Chicago is on pace to have a mild spring.
- We put together a playlist fit for zombies to shake their undead moneymakers.
- Louder Than A Bomb, the largest youth poetry festival in the planet, keeps growing stronger after 15 years.
- The Doomtree collective proved that underground hip hop is alive and well with a hot set at Abbey Pub.
- We paid tribute to the late jazz trumpeter Clark Terry in our latest weekend theater installment with clips from his performance at the 1985 Chicago Jazz Festival.