South Loop News

Your day's organized by two simple forces: the El, which determines your traveling, and food, which is delicious and keeps you from dying.

CHICAGO - Metra officials said Thursday's freight locomotive derailments in the South Loop are delaying the inbound commuter trains that are running on the Southwest and Heritage Lines this morning by 30 to 50 minutes.

Metra riders should allow extra travel time Friday morning, as some trains are still being delayed almost an hour because of a Thursday morning train derailment south of Union Station in the South Loop.

LISTEN LIVE FOR UPDATES CHECK OUT TRAFFIC CENTER LINK TO METRA WEBSITE Bob Roberts And Steve Miler Reporting CHICAGO a * Metra officials say they expect delays to continue during the Friday morning rush, but say trains will be operating on its SouthWest Service despite Thursday morning's derailment of four Union Pacific freight locomotives near ...

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Share + Oct 22, 2009 2:32 pm US/Central Service on a number of Southwest Service Metra trains has been suspended or delayed as crews work to fix rails damaged by a train derailment just south of Union Station, which sent gallons of fuel into the Chicago River on Thursday morning.

Share + Oct 22, 2009 5:56 am US/Central CHICAGO Smokers, oddly enough, were key in nabbing at least three criminals in as many days in the South Loop this week, police said.

Are the auction floodgates finally opening? Following the Vetro auction last winter, several market observers expected condos at big developments to hit the block left and right, especially in the South Loop .

This lakeside home on 15 acres in Marengo, previously valued at $3.9 million, was auctioned last week with a minimum bid of $1.675 million.

An Aurora man was charged Friday night for allegedly carjacking a UIC student Monday morning in the South Loop, police said.

Marilyn and Bill Hasbrouck, the longtime proprietors of the South Loop-based Prairie Avenue Bookshop, e-mailed this note out earlier today.

Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie will discuss his literary work in conversation with Donna Seaman,a WBEZ books contributor and creator of Open Books Radio at the Chicago Public Library as part of the library's Chicago Book Festival program.

On Nov. 15, loft lovers will have a chance to bid a piece of Chicago history when Sheldon Good & Company auctions 20 of the 29 remaining units from the Motor Row Lofts development, located at 2303 S Michigan Ave in the South Loop .

Big shakeup at Custom House : Shawn McClain, the original exec chef/partner/driving force, is on his way out at the South Loop standout.

On Labor Day 2000, folks in Pullman had reason to celebrate. They had just gotten news their historic neighborhood's "heart and soul" -- the charred ruin of Market Hall -- would rise again after 27 years of blight.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, addressed more than 900 people on Sept.

Throwing on sweatshirts over their new, yellow T-shirts, students spent the day at sites across the South Side of Chicago helping schools and nonprofits with everything from painting to tutoring, gardening to sticking labels on envelopes.

Warren Nisley liked the "green" features of the new Morgan at Loyola Station in Rogers Park when he was apartment hunting.

This morning I finally got around to piecing together footage from our visit to the recently opened Roosevelt Collection , located at 150 W Roosevelt Rd in the South Loop.

It was 1884 when the peals created by a 4,100-pound cast iron bell first rang out from Second Presbyterian Church.