CTA riders confront cuts; 'There must be some other way' South Loop residents Dornnapha Sukkree and Pattanan Boonkong left a half-hour earlier for church Sunday morning, knowing that two of the express buses that serve their neighborhood no longer exist.

James Blackshaw A 12-string guitar can be an unwieldy thing, but in the right hands it's a peerless source of rich sonorities.

Two incumbent members of the state house of representatives who represent Near South Side and Near West Side neighborhoods retained their seats in Tuesday's primary election.

So when Guy opened his club Buddy Guy's Legends in the city's South Loop neighborhood in 1989, it was an instant hot spot attracting iconic names in music like a magnet.

Share + Feb 2, 2010 11:11 am US/Central Election officials say the crowds of voters just before 9 a.m. could be used as an indicator to determine voter turnout for the rest of the day.

It took firefighters more than three hours overnight to extinguish an extra-alarm fire that left a Greektown restaurant a total loss and heavily damaged an adjacent building, fire officials said.

Sixteen hours before he was found dead, city School Board President Michael W. Scott got a Sunday-morning call from a top aide to Mayor Daley to schedule a meeting about questionable expenses that Scott and his staff had charged to board credit cards.

Mayor Daley proudly unveiled Chicago's first, year-round food market at the beginning of December.

Parallel with a city-wide trend, last year saw crime in the most serious property and violent categories fall in the neighborhoods in and adjacent to the Loop, according to new statistics released by the Chicago Police Department.

The proposals keep on coming. From Crain's Chicago Business : Sedgwick Properties Development Corp., led by Marty Paris, hopes to break ground this year on the first phase of a three-tower project near Montrose Harbor that would have about 850 residences including senior housing, a full-line grocery store and fitness center and a 200-room hotel.

Between the Buried and Me, Devin Townsend Project Iconoclastic Canadian guitarist, vocalist, and producer Devin Townsend, best known for masterminding the omni-metal wall of sound that was Strapping Young Lad, makes detours into quiet beauty and stupid-fun Euro-pop bombast with his new band, the Devin Townsend Project.

Michelle Grim was so excited by the $38 deal she found for an hourlong facial on Chicago discount site YouSwoop .com, she has become a daily visitor.

Below are the cash balances in the funds for candidates running for the 5th, 9th, 10th and 26th house races and the 13th state senate district.

With Chicago house hunters wondering what the new decade will bring, it's time to crystal-ball gaze into the future of residential development downtown.

It's been a waiting game for Chicago area families who had loved ones in Haiti when the earthquake struck Tuesday afternoon.

The YMCA building at 830 S. Michigan is being demolished. Buddy Guy rocked the South Loop last week.

Stagecoach It's fashionable to put down John Ford's 1939 classic; certainly it's the weakest of Ford's major westerns, burdened with a schematic and pretentious Univ.

Parents with children enrolled in the National Teachers Academy are rejecting the idea of creating two institutions, theirs and one operated by South Loop School, within NTA.

The good news for the just-opened Kerasotes Showplace Icon Theatre in the South Loop is that plenty of Chicagoans think the concept lends a much-needed air of civility to moviegoing: free parking, no preshow advertising , no shrieking video games in the lobby, no kids without a guardian after 7 p.m., reserved seating for everyone, and, best of all, ...

Buddy Guy will hit his Legends stage on Thursday, January 7, 2010 to kick off his annual residency for the very last time at 754 S. Wabash Ave.