Cupid’s best Boystown deals
By John Lendman Valentine’s Day is definitely a love/hate holiday where seeing red can be a good thing or a bad thing. There’s the dinner-and-a-show crowd seeking a romantic evening with their partner...
View ArticleCab driver flees with passenger bag
By John Lendman The police get the report first; RedEye is not far behind. Taxi driver flees with passenger’s bag (again) Feb. 5, 3:20 a.m. Another theft involving a cab driver fleeing with a...
View ArticleAlderman race dropout talks Lakeview issues
By John Lendman A look at resident David Winner’s resume would leave you thinking the man never leaves the Lakeview neighborhood. Or would even want to. The small business owner and accounting...
View ArticleValentine romance in Wrigleyville
By John Lendman OK, so your girlfriend is sick of the casual dates at Murphy’s Bleachers, I guess $2 Tuesdays for hot dogs isn’t so romantic despite your best efforts. We get it. If you’re looking for...
View ArticleThe rebirth of the Southport corridor
By John Lendman A few blocks west of the sports bar party scene of Clark Street, a sleepy neighborhood is going through a rapid growth spurt. A stroll down Southport Avenue north of Addison Street may...
View ArticleLakeview’s issues for Chicago’s next mayor
By John Lendman At a mayoral debate viewing party above a karaoke bar on Belmont and Sheffield avenues, locals and businessowners rubbed elbows with Ald. Tom Tunney of the 44th Ward to chew the fat on...
View ArticleNot everyone laughing about new Factory
It seems the shuttered Lakeshore Theatre’s marquee lights on Broadway will shine once again. The vacant space at Broadway and Belmont Avenue finally found a new tenant in the Los Angeles-based Laugh...
View ArticleGot $1 million? Buy this house
Why we would live here: This house is so modern it looks like you’re living in a contemporary art gallery. The refreshingly unique custom work throughout gives the living spaces great depth. Address:...
View ArticleAbiquiu Cafe: It’s not Mexican, it’s New Mexican
By John Lendman You’d think you stepped off an “L” platform and into an adobe cantina in Santa Fe. Named after a small town in northern New Mexico where owner Joe Miltimore and his family take annual...
View ArticleCivil union watchdog tracker launched
By John Lendman Lakeview locals Greg Potts and John Pfeiffer have wanted to get married for years. And with civil unions to be granted to same-sex couples in Illinois starting June 1, they’ll come as...
View Article8 arrested for prostitution
7 males arrested for prostitution in 4 days Responding to community complaints about prostitution, 23rd District Police have been patrolling Halsted Street in Boystown in covert police vehicles. The...
View ArticleWake up to Kanela Breakfast Club
By John Lendman As the old adage goes, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And the owners of the week-old Kanela Breakfast Club want to make sure you don’t forget it. Wrigleyville’s newest...
View ArticleA dog owner’s guide to Boystown
All throughout the year, the streets of Boystown go to the dogs. Even in two feet of snow you’ll see pooches strolling about in tiny booties and puffy down jackets. It’s an ideal ‘hood for dog owners,...
View ArticleCraft beers rule at new George Street Pub
Say goodbye to this spot’s collegiate bar past and hello to a refined beer garden. At George Street Pub, Halsted Street’s newest bar, locals have been doing a double-take walking past all the...
View ArticleLocals use Facebook to keep eye on Walmart
If developers for Walmart want to set up shop in Lakeview, they better be ready to put up a fight, says local activist Bruce Alan Beal. After a Crain’s Chicago Business article claimed that Walmart...
View Article3 offenders mug victim during drug trade
3 offenders mug victim during drug trade Mar. 1, 4 a.m. While walking on Halsted Street near Belmont Avenue, a 30-year-old male was approached by three individuals (two males and one gender unknown)...
View ArticleBelmont Harbor views from $625,000 condo
Why we would live here: If the view of the lakefront from the windows and rooftop deck doesn’t take your breath away, the custom woodwork throughout definitely will. Open house: Noon-2 p.m., Sunday...
View ArticleMan steals delivery truck, takes pizza dough
Man Tasered at Center on Halsted Mar. 9, 6:50 p.m. After refusing restraint and pushing a police officer at the Center on Halsted at Halsted Street and Waveland Avenue, a 22 year-old male was Tasered...
View ArticleReinventing the Boystown pub crawl
Crafting a good pub crawl is like lighting a bonfire: If you don’t have the perfect conditions and materials, it’ll fizzle out fast. Lucky Horseshoe bartender Matt Cypher is hoping to get Boystown...
View ArticleThree robbed at gunpoint in home invasion
3 robbed at gunpoint in home invasion Mar. 13, 11 p.m. Three residents at Belmont and Cambridge avenues ages 24-26 (two males and one female) were robbed at gunpoint after two unknown male offenders...
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