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Construction is underway on 216 new apartments on the northwest corner of Madison and Racine in the West Loop .

This firkin is always unique, and can only be enjoyed in the tap room here on Lincoln Avenue.

Sunday's morning church session: How the Spirit speaks to you. The spirit speaks to you all the time through your thoughts and feelings.

The south end of the Red Line is now officially closed for rebuilding. The project is supposed to take five months.

And I'm only talking about the specials here. It might take another century and a half to detail full menus.

In the aftermath of the devastating tornados that struck Oklahoma this week, Chicagoans cast a watchful eye at the sky this morning.

Avondale's LeaderBar Drafthouse & Eatery celebrates National Burger Day, Tuesday, May 28, by offering $1 Leader Burgers with the purchase of any craft beer.

As it stands now, Chicago's Navy Pier is a cluttered, over-commercialized tourist trap that juts out into Lake Michigan.

The suspect is described as a 20- to 30-year-old Asian man with a medium build and short black hair, police said.

Wilmette Police have charged a Chicago woman in connection with a May 15 hit-and-run case in which she is alleged to have driven away from a traffic confrontation with another woman hanging on to her car.

After weeks of protests, it appeared on the eve of a school board vote as though at least one school eyed for closure would be spared.

I'm sitting in a dimly lit recording booth, about the size of an elevator, at a small table opposite my friend Brenna.

Redmoon announced this week that Artplace America has awarded the spectacle troupe a $250,000 grant to help fund the first Great Chicago Fire Festival, to be held on the Chicago River in October 2014.

That Jann Wenner's 22-year-old son and recent Brown University graduate Gus Wenner is taking the reins of Rollingstone.com ? - Leor Galil That a little-known mathematician has made a breakthrough on Twin Prime Conjecture? - Steve Bogira That there are big bucks to be made off female anxiety, whether about breast cancer or fertility ? - Kate Schmidt ... (more)

Deep-dish will never go extinct. You gotta feed the tourists! For the rest of Chicago's pizza-eating public, plenty of new spots are shaking up the scene.

On Tuesday, May 14, around 9:10 pm, 83-year-old Leonard Ratajczyk was bicycling west on the 7800 block of West Irving Park Road in the Irving Woods neighborhood when the driver of a westbound Chevy Malibu struck and killed him, according to Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabella.

If there's one group of people who know how to throw a jazz festival it's the . . . Israeli consulate to the midwest? Swallow your surprise and catch rising New York guitarist Gilad Hekselman at the Anshe Emet Synagogue.

Sorry to add to the crowding on the Chicago Craft Beer Week schedule-there are hundreds upon hundreds of events there already-but the Reader and Binny's are partnering up for something called "Beer & Music" on Thursday, May 23.

Here are some of the top stories from Patch's West Chicago region last week: GENEVA- SWEET! Genevan Finds $4.85 Million Lottery Ticket in His Cookie Jar -Winning ticket stashed away for more than three months.

The city's all-powerful mayor was ignoring their pleas, so the public students of Chicago felt they had no choice but to walk out of school and march in protest.