South Loop News

CHICAGO - The CTA temporarily suspended Green and Orange Line Monday afternoon when a fire started on the tracks in the South Loop.

You can cook up a storm in the updated kitchen of this condo on Iowa Street in Chicago, then take your fixings and your buddies to the rooftop deck for dinner.

Jerome D. Jackson of Chicago was charged with robbing a South Loop bank this week and is suspected with robbing the same bank twice before.

Remember my watchword: "Tastings" usually involve free samples of beer. Oh, and have I mentioned that BaderbrA u is back? See the rest at my ChiTownonTap Calendar or at Chicago Craft Beer Week's schedule.

CHICAGO - A biker was killed when he was thrown from his motorcycle on the Eisenhower Expressway and landed on the Kennedy Expressway Tuesday night at the Circle Interchange in the South Loop, police said.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Lambrusco was the biggest selling import wine in the United States.

Businesses were boarded up and barricades lined the streets in the days surrounding the NATO Summit and now things in the city are getting back to normal.

The South Loop neighborhood, next to McCormick Place Convention Center, site of world leaders' discussions of Afghanistan and other weighty global issues, started coming back to life Monday after a weekend blocked off by concrete barricades, ringed by police, buzzed by helicopters and separated from traffic by snowplows, trucks and other barriers.

CHICAGO - An extra portion of Lake Shore Drive on the Near North Side will be shut down Sunday evening, adding to a maze of street closures already in place for the NATO Summit.

Ground Zero of the protests in Chicago are at Prudential Plaza, which happens to be the Obama campaign headquarters, and also my office building .

After a trip out of the neighborhood yesterday afternoon on the Blue Line to Wicker Park and back; and then a trip last night out of the neighborhood on the Brown Line to Ravenswood and back, I can say authoritatively, that there's not much happening from the south end of the Loop, and on into the South Loop proper.

Traffic jams, detours and public transit delays are three sure results of the NATO summit this coming weekend, when more than 60 heads of state from around the country will descend upon Chicago .

The NATO Summit weekend has arrived. And no matter where you're planning to go in Chicago between now and Monday night, here's some advice: Speaking of driving, some roads will be shut down while the 60-some heads of state are out and about.

As the NATO Summit disrupts commutes, walking routes, travel plans and work routines, one neighborhood is in the hot spot: the South Loop and its 2,000 residents and 200 businesses.

Gioco is an Italian restaurant located in the South Loop and features rustic Italian dishes prepared with the finest available seasonal products.

Erika Hildegard Johnson/Contributor The William H. Bigham Gallery space is long and narrow, with artifacts and furniture covering nearly every inch.

The TCF bank located within the Jewel-Osco store at 1224 S. Wabash Ave. was reported robbed at 5:15 p.m. Saturday, May 12.

Downtown Chicago retailers say it will be business-as-usual during the coming NATO summit.

Additional communities-New Eastside, Printer's Row, South Loop, West Loop Gate/West Loop and Historic Michigan Boulevard District-make up Chicago's downtown.A Like the Loop, each one is unique.

Apartment Savvy, one of the rental services on our do-not-call list, has been reviewed 85 times at the Google Places page for its 2835 N Clark St office.