Logan Square News

The Purple Pig opened quietly. Appreciative foodies kept the room at least half full all evening.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Kwanzaa festival and have compiled a list of different black owned business that I feel people should shop at.

Chicago Police issued an alert Christmas Day for a 19-year-old woman missing from Logan Square since November.

One of our trusted spies says she "really loved" Don Diablo , the new taquera in the old space of - and by the owners of - Fonda del Mar.

Let's face it: chances are you'll need a little food to deal with your hangover from going out on New Year's Eve.

Police are looking for the woman who robbed a Logan Square taqueria at gunpoint Tuesday night on the Northwest Side.

CHICAGO a * A 21-year-old North Side man has been charged with murder, after police said he purposely struck and killed a bicyclist with his van in Logan Square.

Bicycling in Logan Square on Tuesday afternoon on his way to fill out job applications, Jepson Livingston could not have known about the violent dispute he pedaled toward, authorities said.

Share + Dec 15, 2009 10:59 pm US/Central CHICAGO 1 of 1 The driver of this van allegedly fled on foot after striking a bicyclist and killing him in the Logan Square neighborhood.

Commuters stopping at the Red Hen Bread bakery on North Milwaukee Avenue in Bucktown can also check to see when the next CTA bus will pull up at the corner, without leaving the cinnamon-toasty warmth of the store.

This morning on the Northwest Side, authorities said a 14-year-old boy was shot and seriously wounded, possibly in the head.

Chicago is often referred to as a "city of neighborhoods." Indeed, the intrepid visitor will quickly notice how each of Chicago's neighborhoods varies - not just in demographics, but in culture, history, and attitude.

The King Khan & BBQ Show The devoutly primitive Canadian garage rock outfit King Khan & BBQ Show is wild, streaked with soulful, sex-minded batshittery, but the music is melodically rich and redolent of a TM50 sock hops.

Share + Dec 3, 2009 12:56 pm US/Central CHICAGO 1 of 1 A surveillance video caught these two women escaping following an attack with a caustic liquid in the Logan Square neighborhood in July 2008.

Artists' studios and galleries dot Halsted Street, while a well-established Mexican American community flourishes to the west.

CHICAGO a * An iconic Chicago pet shop is calling it quits after more than 65 years.

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A sandwich shop is only as good as its bread, so when a Logan Square cafe wanted to really offer something unique, it turned to a tiny bakery in Rogers Park.

Two men have been charged for a shooting in the Northwest Side's Hermosa neighborhood that left a woman critically injured early Thursday.

"A better word than 'deli' is a 'larder,'" says Zanella, whose grandfather was named Aldino.