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Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Sep 10, 2020
A challenging and memorable bike ride around Chicago’s exact city limits

Cycling, sightseeing, and snacking from Rogers Park to Edison Park, Mount Greenwood to Hegewisch
- By John Greenfield
- Tags: On Transportation, City limits, Strict Chicago Perimeter Ride, bike rides, cycling, Lakefront Trail, Uptown, Rogers Park, West Ridge, North Park, Forest Glen, Norwood Park, Edison Park, O’Hare, Dunning, Montclare, Austin, North Lawndale, Little Village, Brighton Park, Garfield Ridge, Clearing, West Lawn, Ashburn, Beverly, Mount Greenwood, Morgan Park, West Pullman, East Side, South Chicago, South Shore, Hyde Park, Kenwood, Oakland, Douglas, Near South Side, Loop, River North, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Fish Keg, Novelty Golf & Games, Leaning Tower of Niles, Superdawg, Edison Park Motel, Des Plaines River Trail, Hala Kahiki, Gene and Jude’s, Home of the Hoagy, Janson’s Drive-In, Taqueria Los Gallos, Ben’s Bar-Be-Cue, Calumet Fisheries, Gorditas Adrian’s, Riverdale, Hegewisch

Music, Music Review Aug 7, 2020
Recommended
Chicago rapper-singer Osa North brings Nigerian pop back home on 5 Boys 3 Cars
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Review, 5 Boys 3 Cars, Osa North, Nigeria, Osa Obaseki, Uptown, Benin City, Afrobeat, Recommended

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jul 15, 2020
Recommended
Uptown’s In-On Thai excels behind a dark dining room

Its second incarnation abides with extraordinary carryout.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Aroy Thai, In-On Thai, Uptown, Korakot Vongsatit, Atichat “Don” Srisawangpan, Thai food, COVID-19, coronavirus, Recommended

Music, Music Feature Jan 7, 2020
Video
WemmyMo makes his rap career a family affair

The Nigerian American MC hopes to help support his family by making music—and he’s filled his crew with cousins.
- By Matt Harvey
- Tags: Music Feature, WemmyMo, Wemmy Hassan, Nigerian, Nigerian American, hip-hop, rap, Suffering and Smiling 002, Bittersweet, Misunderstood, Uptown, Styles for the Free, Watch Out, Ty Goods, Sade, Sally, Harold Washington Library, Harold Washington College, Holy Vibes, Hussein Atoro, DJ Balor, Trevor James, SAE Institute, Big Wet Studios, Lauryn Hill, Hype Williams, Video

Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2019
The Fat Babies wring the kitsch out of trad jazz

The vitality and commitment of these hardworking Chicago preservationists make antique songs feel brand-new.
- By James Porter
- Tags: Music Feature, Fat Babies, Chicago Jazz Festival, Jazz Festival, traditional jazz, trad jazz, Delmark, Uptown, Beau Sample, Green Mill, Honky Tonk BBQ, Four Charms, Devil in a Woodpile, Jimmy Sutton

News & Politics, Politics Apr 1, 2019
Cupcake electioneering hits Uptown

In the final days of his re-election fight, Alderman James Cappleman tries to sweeten the deal for voters.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Politics, James Cappleman, 46th Ward, Marianne Lalonde, election 2019, runoff election, aldermanic election, Uptown, nursing homes, electioneering, James Allen, Jim Allen, Board of Elections

News & Politics, Politics Feb 18, 2019
Five challengers take on 46th Ward alderman Cappleman from the left

Gentrifying Uptown may be ready for the return of Helen Shiller’s spirit.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Politics, 46th Ward, Uptown, East Lakeview, James Cappleman, Helen Shiller, aldermanic election, Angela Clay, Marianne Lalonde, Erika Wozniak Francis, Jon-Robert McDowell, Justin Kreindler, poverty, homelessness, affordable housing, single room occupancy hotels, SRO, SROs, SRO preservation, Lawrence House, Wilson Yards, Stewart Elementary School, Stewart School Lofts, CAPS, CHA, Chicago Housing Authority, social service, ONE Northside, ONE People’s Campaign, Alan Mills, Uptown People’s Law Center, gentrification, basketball, basketball hoops, broken windows policing, Amy Crawford, Kate Walz, TIFs

News & Politics, Feature Aug 21, 2018
CPS closed Stewart Elementary School in 2013. Now it’s a luxury apartment building.

A former student goes back to visit.
- By Matt Harvey
- Tags: Feature, Stewart Elementary School, Stewart School Lofts, school closings, Uptown, gentrification, Chicago Board of Education, Chicago Public Schools, 2013 school closings, Brenneman Elementary, McCutcheon Elementary, Metropolitan Planning Council, Uptown Corridor Development Initiative, James Cappleman, Morningside Development, Eric Slavik, Judy Truong, Alison Solway, Michelle Washington, Leslie McCray, Kelly Schroer, Ben Pedersen, Jessie Williams, repurposed schools, education, community development

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jul 12, 2018
At 3 Squares Diner there’s a dog that won’t bark

The ersatz Uptown diner in a restored art-deco hotel promises more than it delivers.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Chicago Pastrami Dog, Chicago diners, Uptown, Lawrence House, Larry's, Chicago, Ian Voakes, Jam restaurant, jumbo pastrami, Herm's Hotdog Palace, Skokie

Blogs, Bleader Jun 7, 2018
Fight for right to camp on city streets will continue despite legal setback, homeless advocates say

The city could face further lawsuits after a judge ruled that a homeless tent city in Uptown was not a protected protest.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Housing, Politics, News, homeless, homelessness, housing, Uptown, Uptown Tent City, Uptown Tent City Organizers, Andy Thayer, Alan Mills, Uptown People's Law Center, Bill McCaffrey, Judge Sidney Schenkier

Blogs, Bleader May 31, 2018
How Dems in red states can fight off Trump’s vicious attacks

Let's hope voters in states from North Dakota to West Virginia appreciate senatorial independence from Trump.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: News, Politics, Rich Miller, CapitolFax, Helen Shiller, Richard Daley, Sam McCann, Ken Dunkin, Juliana Stratton, Bruce Rauner, Michael Madigan, Donald Trump, Montana, North Dakota, Missouri, Indiana, West Virginia, Uptown

News & Politics, Feature May 24, 2018
Hundreds of Illinois prisoners languish behind bars waiting for Dorothy Brown to do her job

The court clerk lost the records of James Allen, who's fighting to overturn convictions that put him in prison 30 years ago. His case is not unique.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, james allen, chicago police, cook county, circuit court of cook county, dorothy brown, pontiac correctional center, tamms, carl gibson, robert ciralski, hyde park, richard m. daley, nocholas ford, illinois supreme court, steven becker, office of the state appellate defender, cicero, patricia mysza, jalyne strong-shaw, records storage center, larry gibson, tyrone oby, washington park, oliver singleton, ged, people's law office, illinois prisoner review board, jeffrey haas, national conference of black lawyers community college of law, charles ashley, michael pochordo, chicago skyway, willie "flukey" stokes, franklin freeman, darryl moore, uptown, better government association, alan goldberg, toni preckwinkle, records storage and digital imaging center, mississippi

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2018
Get wet at the first Thai New Year Water Festival

An eating contest, a water fight, and som tam-making contest, and 18 Thai restaurants celebrate a belated Songkran in Uptown this weekend.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Songkran, Dew Suriyawan, Paula's Thai Kitchen, Rainbow Cuisine, Spoon Thai, Me Dee Cafe, Bangkok Tokyo, Bites Fireside, Gorilla on Clark, Kinnaree Thai Kitchen, Krungthep Thai Cuisine, Manee Thai, New Pot, Opart, Pho Thai Cuisine, Seafood on the Tables, Thai Inbox Glenview, Thai food, Thai New Year, Thai New Year Water Festival, Uptown, Bridgeview Bank

News & Politics, Feature Jan 30, 2018
Are tiny houses a solution to homelessness in Chicago?

The push for a small answer to a massive problem
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Feature, tiny houses, tiny homes, Pride Action Tank, Tiny Homes Competition, Tracy Baim, Windy City Times, University of Illinois at Chicago, Back of the Yards, Polk Bros. Foundation, Alphawood Foundation, Pierce Family Foundation, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, Douglas Schenkelberg, All Chicago, Nonie Brennan, Brien Cron, La Casa Norte, Chicago Police Department, Airbnb, architecture, real estate, Ed Burke, Joe Moreno, Catholic Charities, Landon Bone Baker Architects, American Institute of Architects, Terry Howell, Marty Sandberg, Lon Stousland, Jesus People USA, Chicago Tiny House, James Cappleman, Uptown

Arts & Culture, Feature Jan 3, 2018
Last night at Man’s Country

The pioneering gay bathhouse’s 13-hour final hurrah
- By Aaron Gettinger and Brittany Sowacke
- Tags: Feature, Man's Country, Chuck Renslow, Ron Ehemann, International Mr. Leather, Leather Archives & Museum, Uptown, gay, LGBTQ, Harry Cross, Men's Room

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 25, 2017
Arnie the Doughnut, Tangles and Plaques, and 11 more new stage shows to see

A delightful kids' show and a Neo-Futurist's look at dementia are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Arnie the Doughnut, Lifeline Theatre, Laurie Keller, Francis Limoncelli, George Howe, Rachel Sypniewski, Juanita Andersen, The Black Renaissance (A Musical Resistance Against Racism), Jackie Taylor, Black Ensemble Theater, Reconstruction, the Civil War, Ku Klux Klan, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, racism, Robert Reddrick, Carrie, Underscore Theatre Company, Carrie 2: The Rage, The Rage: Carrie 2, Preston Max Allen, Maggie Robinson, Rachel Elise Johnson, Isaac Loomer, Spring Awakening, Chicago Danztheatre, Danztheatre Playwright Fest, Getting Old Sucks, Nelia Winter, Cetalogy, Moby-Dick, Pivot Arts, Don't Look Back/Must Look Back, Uptown, Chinese Mutual Aid Association, Albany Park Theater Project, Ellen Gates Starr High School, Learning Curve, Devon de Mayo, Tennessee Williams, His Greatness, The Glass Menagerie, Daniel MacIvor, David Zak, Pride Films and Plays, Danne E. Taylor, The Last Days of the Commune, Bertolt Brecht, Prop Thtr, Stefan Brün, Kyle Ann Greer, Paris Commune of 1871, Refuge Theatre Project, High Fidelity: The Musical, Lysistrata, Lysistrata Jones, Douglas Carter Beane, Lewis Flinn, Justin Brill, Mary-Margaret Roberts, Shanna VanDerwerker, A Swell in the Ground, Jeanine Nabers, Chika Ike, the Gift Theatre, the Neo-Futurists, Kirsten Riiber, Jen Ellison, With Blood, With Ink, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Third Eye Theatre Ensemble, Daniel Crozier, Peter M. Krask, Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory, Zombie Bathhouse: A Rock Musical, Campsongs Productions, Brian Kirst, Dan Foss, Scott Free

Music, Music Feature Aug 16, 2017
CHIRP sees the transmitter at the end of the tunnel

Ten years after the Chicago Independent Radio Project recruited its first volunteers, it’s finally hitting the airwaves.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Music Feature, CHIRP, Chicago Independent Radio Project, low-power FM, LPFM, Lumpen Radio, 107.1 FM, transmitter, broadcast, WLUW, Shawn Campbell, Jenny Lizak, Tony Breed, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Local Community Radio Act, North Center, Ravenswood, Uptown

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jul 3, 2017
A shuttered Chicago public school promoted as ‘best in the class’ upscale apartments is a big fail

The conversion of Uptown’s Stewart School shows the city once again prioritizing private development over its dead-broke education system.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Erika Wozniak, James Cappleman, Uptown, Forrest Claypool, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, Stewart School, Stewart School Lofts, Harrison Ford

Food & Drink, Bar Review Apr 10, 2017
Recommended
Larry’s is a cocktail oasis in Uptown

The recently renovated Lawrence House has given the neighborhood a new watering hole.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Bar Review, Booze, Food & Drink, Lawrence House, Larry's, cocktail bar, classic cocktails, Uptown, Heritage Bicycles, bar review, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2017
Tesfa Ethiopian Cuisine serves up abundant wonders in Uptown

At the tiny East African spot, it's injera for all.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Tesfa Ethiopian Cuisine, Ethiopian food, Lake Langano, shiro, yemisir wot, siga wot, doro wot, qocho, Uptown

Arts & Culture, Book Review Jan 18, 2017
Recommended
Creatures invade 1960s Chicago in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Emil Ferris’s new graphic novel depicts the spooky imagination of a ten-year-old girl.
- By Dominic Umile
- Tags: Book Review, Emil Ferris, Creatures invade 1960s Chicago in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Fantagraphics, Karen Reyes, monsters, Uptown, graphic novels, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Dec 22, 2016
Angered by homicides, activists leave coffins at Rahm Emanuel’s home

“Behind each of these deaths is a failure,” activists said.
- By Derrick Clifton
- Tags: Criminal Justice, News, Race, RIP, American Indian Center, Rahm Emanuel, politics, violence, homicide, police, police violence, police accountability, activism, march, Ravenswood, Uptown, mental health, mental health clinics, schools, public schools, education

Blogs, Bleader Dec 20, 2016
Forty people were shot over the weekend despite bitter cold and snow, and other Chicago news

Also, midyear budget cuts are looming again for Chicago Public Schools.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, gun violence, James Cappleman, Uptown, Preston Bradley Center, Chicago Public Schools, Bruce Rauner, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois budget, Tiger Woods, golf courses, PGA, Loyola University Chicago, sexual assault

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Nov 8, 2016
Recommended
Kie-Gol-Lanee is a Oaxacan island amid an ocean of pho

The Uptown restaurant doesn’t just dabble in the cuisine of the southwestern Mexican state.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Kie-Gol-Lanee, Uptown, Oaxacan, Mexico, Rick Bayless, Leña Brava, Anteprima, Reynel Mendoza, Riques Cocina Mexicana, Santa María Quiegolani, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 11, 2016
Recommended
Good Evening With Pat Whalen goes prime time in Uptown

The late-night talk show tackles issues in the north-side neighborhood.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Pat Whalen, Good Evening With Pat Whalen, Uptown, Edgewater, Frontier, Ike Holter, White Mystery, 46th Ward, James Cappleman, comedy, talk show, Recommended

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