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A long time mob watcher says it's logical for the feds to go after video poker machines in the Bridgeport neighborhood because it's right next to the home base of the mob's 26th Street or Chinatown crew.

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An 82-year-old man who allegedly punched a CTA bus driver during a fare dispute was then Tased and arrested by Chicago Police in the Chinatown neighborhood Monday morning, police said.

A Federal investigation of mob-backed video poker machines is now underway in Chicago 's Bridgeport neighborhood, NBC5 and the Chicago Sun-Times have learned.

If relatives are coming to town for the holidays, you might want to attend a South Carolina workshop to get tips on taking oral histories to preserve your family story.

My adventure to Urban Roots Salon in Chicago's Chinatown was a great success. I got a fabulous precision cut in a lovely environment for a price that suits my budget.

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Chicago is known as a city of neighborhoods and Patricia Sullivan, manager of the city's Chicago Neighborhood Tours program, said visitors need to leave the tourist-heavy Loop and Michigan Avenue areas to really see the different ethnic and cultural corners of the city.

From Greektown to Chinatown, from the Polish Triangle to Pakistani restaurants on Devon Avenue, Chicago has a wealth of diverse ethnic neighborhoods to explore.

Chicago is known as a city of neighborhoods and Patricia Sullivan, manager of the city's Chicago Neighborhood Tours program, said visitors need to leave the tourist-heavy Loop and Michigan Avenue areas to really see the different ethnic and cultural corners of the city.

Though Jake Lingle, in the words of one colleague, "never mastered the art of writing," he was a star of the Tribune newsroom thanks to his well-placed connections - including both Al Capone and Chicago's chief of police.

Union Pacific railroad officials are investigating how a line of eight unmanned freight locomotives rolled out of a Near South Side railyard this morning, causing a derailment near Chinatown that delayed or canceled Amtrak and Metra trains.

Two Tri-Community towns are receiving an economic shot in the arm. Imaging device manufacturer Karl Storz Endoscopy has moved its logistics and distribution operations from its Charlton site to a 47,000-square-foot warehouse at 15 Wells St.

See wild animals in their natural habitats thanks to National Geographic's Crittercam at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, It's the shot heard 'round Greenbush, Wis., during the 19th Annual Civil War Weekend.

The former Palace of Fine Arts is today the Museum of Science and Industry on the South Side.

IT'S a standard tourist activity in a Chicago summer: you descend from Michigan Avenue to the quay along the Chicago River, board a tour boat and glide along listening to a guide on a loudspeaker talk up the architecture and rib the poor tourists from Wisconsin.

What haven't *you done this summer you'd still like to do? How about a two dollar staycation on the Chicago river? "I'm Mike Borgstrom.

What haven't *you done this summer you'd still like to do? How about a two dollar staycation on the Chicago river? "I'm Mike Borgstrom.

What haven't *you done this summer you'd still like to do? How about a two dollar staycation on the Chicago river? "I'm Mike Borgstrom.

The timing of the decision may prove to be a cunning move. Less than three weeks after the policy went into effect, two San Francisco streetcars collided in the West Portal Metro Station on July 18.