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Extra Extra: Plans Form For Finkl Steel Site Transformation

By Rachel Cromidas in News on May 28, 2015 9:26PM


  • A host of ideas to transform the former site of Finkl Steel in Lincoln Park are on the table, from a light manufacturing district to a corporate campus to a new brewery and restaurant hub. [Tribune]

  • Chicago Bulls president Jon Paxson and GM Gar Forman said coach Tom Thibodeau had to go. [Sun-Times]

  • The Field Museum has brought back its Mammoths and Mastodons exhibit from 2010. [Sun-Times]

  • Chicago's politics have become an analogy for corruption in the FIFA scandal. [DNAinfo]

  • The new placemaking project Lincoln Hub has an intersection of Lincoln, Wellington, and Southport Avenues covered in bright colored dots. [Streetsblog]
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