Old Town News

After planning which day to grill out with family or friends and which day to play golf or tennis or run a Memorial Day race you will still have a day left to do something else that's fun.A Here are three ideas to fill your free day.

Such a marathon event to keep up with. Remember, this is only skimming the surface.

Chad Butler of Ottawa has worked with cameras since he was 6 years old and is now saving for and dreaming of opening his own fine art photography gallery one day.

Outside the International Amphitheater in Chicago in August 1968 works nears completion for the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

A 45-year old Chicago man has been charged with the Monday afternoon robbery of the Fifth Third Bank in the North Side's Old Town neighborhood.

Chicago Police Officer John McCarthy, left, and his partner Lucas Wise nabbed an alleged bank robber this afternoon.

It's called Old Town for a reason - the neighborhood is one of the first parts of Chicago to be settled in the 1800s, and its Old Town Triangle Landmark District still includes many homes built in the years following the great fire that destroyed much of the city in 1871.