Wicker Park News

When Maria Echevarria was considering a job offer as a publicist in midtown Manhattan more than 1440 kilometres away from her family home in Orlando, Florida she knew it would be a hard sell to her spouse.

Chicago's large network of green space means that 90 percent of the city's residents are within a half-mile's walking distance of at least one neighborhood park, Cook County Forest Preserve or public space.

This summer, get an insider's point-of-view on a different Chicago neighborhood each week when Get Up and Go!, a popular series featuring conversations with community experts followed by guided walking tours, returns to the Chicago Cultural Center.

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.

In "Proud of Their City," T&L put Chicago after New Orleans, San Juan and Savannah.

May 18, 2012 -- Retired engineer Olavi Goos was bicycling along the lakefront recently when his cellphone rang.

In the last year, Chicagoans have grown accustomed to the Occupy movement its protest tactics and its message.

Let's keep up the momentum: Spread the word and invite your friends to come along, learn about the crimes of NATO and get involved in the movement to put them to a stop.

This week Daniel Clowes will be back in his old stomping grounds, just in time for the big NATO gathering! Clowes, though, is not coming home to hobnob with world leaders.

After Mayor Richard Daley left office, the future of privatization in Chicago was uncertain at best.

New York City's High Line park has received almost nothing but rave reviews since it opened to the public in June 2009.

CHICAGO - A man is in critical condition after being shot multiple times early Saturday in the Wicker Park neighborhood on the Near Northwest Side.

Much like spring, the City of Chicago Farmers Markets have returned, and the first markets will open in the neighborhoods, May 12 in Lincoln Park and on Division Street followed the next day by the Beverly market.

More than 20 members of Manbque gather for their monthly grilling event. The group, which is in its sixth year, shares food, beer and cooking ideas during their meetings.