Near North News

Chicago area gas prices are dancing closer to $3 a gallon after bottoming out last December at almost half that price.

Apr 29, 2009 2:27 pm US/Central The Whole Foods store at 1000 W. North Ave. will soon close and be replaced with a new store at Sheffield and Kingsbury, the third largest in the world.

The Gold Coast is a neighborhood of contrasts. It is a tiny, quiet neighborhood of historic brownstones intermingled with high-rises nestled along Lake Shore Drive on the Near North Side .

President Barack Obama's familiar red and black image gazes from banners hung along the broad avenues of this frozen metropolis that is a glistening architectural jewel.

Feb 26, 2009 1:55 pm US/Central Women Had Been Promising 'Good Time' Or 'Ride' CHICAGO Two women were arrested early Wednesday for allegedlyA stealing cash using a stolen debit card at a Near North Side Jewel ...

Feb 25, 2009 1:30 pm US/Central CHICAGO Police have issued an alert after a man met two women outside a River North bar last month and later discovered his bank debit card was missing and $8,600 had been ...

Feb 23, 2009 5:56 am US/Central Alsworth Carter is charged with attacking an 82-year-old woman and stealing her purse at a bus stop at Diversey Parkway and Sheridan Road.

"Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth" 111 S. Michigan Ave. 930-4040 www.artinstituteofchicago.org 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Sunday Tickets: In February, $10 for adults, free for children "The ...

Colombian-born Carlos Escalante and his wife, Eve, were wowing friends and coworkers with homemade versions of the South American version of a Hot Pocket, the empanada, until one day it hit them: "Wouldn't it ...

CHICAGO a * A suspect in the rape of a woman at a CTA Red Line platform in November on the Near North Side turned himself in Thursday but has not been charged because the victim reportedly does not want to ...