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A developer shelved plans to convert an old hospital in Hyde Park, vacant since 2000, into two hotels after residents voted the precinct dry on Nov. 4.
As if Hyde Park didn't have enough drama these days, plans for a large hotel have been effectively blocked after residents approved a ban on liquor sales.
Hold on to your seats because the rollercoaster that is the economic recession is going to get bumpier before it gets better. Top business leaders delivered the grim news on the global recession at a panel discussion on the financial crisis Wednesday.
Five additional cases of whooping cough have been confirmed in Evanston, bringing the total in the current outbreak to 10, a city health official said Wednesday. Whooping cough is a highly contagious bacterial infection involving the respiratory tract that causes prolonged coughing illness, according to Dr. Amanda Cohn, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is formally known as pertussis.
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The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers decreased 1.0 percent in October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported.
A bad egg can ruin a holiday. Consumers hoping to ring in the season with a cup of traditional eggnog or a spoonful of Christmas cookie dough often have had to balance fears that raw eggs could transform a night of celebration into hours of sickness from salmonella poisoning. But a local company is helping to change all that.
In the midst of neighborhood gang violence, Luther Brown said he's contributing something healthy and positive to his West Side community. He planted multiple vegetables yesterday at a new winter greenhouse he recently helped build at Garfield Park Conservatory. Brown, 28, is a graduate of the Windy City Harvest urban agriculture pilot program. The certificate program is funded by the Chicago Botanic Garden and accredited through Chicago City Colleges.
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With advertisers spending less and continuing to aggressively move online, top business media executives debated how to keep their publications profitable at this week’s American Business Media conference in downtown Chicago. Medill reporters had a front row seat for the discussion of what the future of business publishing holds.
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