Lincoln Park
Anonymous group seeking to draw attention to Indigenous Peoples’ Day claims credit for pouring paint on the ‘Standing Lincoln,’ calling the 16th president ‘a colonizer.’
The name was part of an emotional and potentially high-risk coming out for Timmy Knudsen after he graduated law school and joined a buttoned-down Chicago firm he was not at all certain would welcome an openly-gay attorney.
Ald. Timmy Knudsen (43rd) was confirmed, sworn in and started voting Wednesday, becoming Chicago’s youngest alderperson. His predecessor, Michele Smith, offered an impassioned defense of the role of Council members.
The appointment is expected to give Knudsen a running start in next year’s aldermanic elections in the affluent North Side ward, which typically sees heavily contested races. The nomination goes before the City Council Rules Committee Tuesday and the full Council Wednesday.
About 2:20 a.m., a white sedan entered the northbound lanes going south in the 2000 block of North DuSable Lake Shore Drive when the driver struck a silver sedan head on, police said.
The decision by the Lincoln Park alderperson gives Mayor Lori Lightfoot the rare chance for a third appointment to the Council. Lightfoot already has replaced Patrick Daley Thompson, forced to resign after a federal conviction, and Michael Scott Jr., who left for a private sector job.
Smith says the cameras, which parks employees rarely monitor, aren’t of high enough resolution to be tied into city Office of Emergency Management and Communication systems.
“We must never forget those we’ve lost,” said Yoni Pizer, board chair for AIDS Garden Chicago.
Promoted on social media as a “2000s themed cookout,” the beach “takeover” Monday drew hundreds of people to the lakefront destination as temperatures jumped into the 90s.
The shooting May 6 left Dakotah Earley fighting for his life.
Whatever else is happening in the city or with its housing market, demand powers onward in the city’s wealthy districts.
Tyshon Brownlee, charged in the shooting of Dakotah Earley, “basically terrorized this neighborhood with armed robbery after armed robbery after armed robbery,” a prosecutor said.
Ald. Michele Smith says the event, which attracted about 400 people, was promoted anonymously and on social media, with organizers encouraging people to bring alcohol and drugs.
Ross began working for Lincoln Park Zoo in 2000.
She got the idea for her plaster casts from her art teacher at the University of Illinois Chicago and made them using Jeltrate dental mold, plaster and water.
“A huge misconception that a lot of kids have is that racism is just a joke,” says Alexa Avellaneda, a junior. “It’s not a joke. It’s bigotry.”
Owner Reserve Management applied for permits to reopen the North Side scrap yard after a planned move to the Southeast Side was rejected by the city, but Ald. Hopkins says “under no circumstances.”
The Lincoln Park event, announced just two weeks ago, was to feature big names including Ellie Goulding, Chelsea Handler and Gloria Steinem.
The June 11-12 event in Lincoln Park promises speakers, comedians and a musical lineup including Kali Uchis, Kim Petras, Monica, Liz Phair, Mon Laferte, Jamila Woods and Young M.A.
Henry Darger died in 1973, leaving behind hundreds of pieces of his artwork and writings. Now, a court may have to decide who really owns his work.
Francis W. Parker School grad Jimmy Warden fashions a madcap comedy based on real-life 1985 incident, despite having ‘no experience with wildlife.’
The HGTV show cut two versions of the episode in which Victoria boasted she “knocked it out of the park” after the rehab and sale of the Lincoln Park home. She made no mention of the new buyer’s identity.
Fisher worked at Lincoln Park Zoo for nearly 45 years, starting in 1947 and later serving as the zoo’s director from 1962 until he retired in 1992. He was the zoo’s first veterinarian.
Property owners in the federal Sheffield historic district have butted heads on preservation, and now a resident wants to tear down an 1880s building for open space.
Those living in three South Side communities have lower life expectancy, worse quality of life than residents around General Iron’s longtime Lincoln Park home, city official says.
Before Jovan McPherson shot the officer, he held a 21-year-old woman at gunpoint as they drove from Elgin to Chicago, police said.
The exhibit opens Friday at the Chicago History Museum.