Chinatown warehouse slated to redevelopment into hotel, retail chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A long-delayed effort to restore a vacant Chinatown landmark may finally get underway next year. The Commission on Chicago Landmarks on Thursday recommended approving a special property tax incentive for the former W.M. Hoyt Building at 465 W. Cermak Road, along the South Branch of the Chicago River. Developer Windfall Group plans to transform the hulking warehouse into Pacifica of Chicago, a .
For much of the North Shore Channel's 100-plus-year history, the land along the drainage canal in Evanston was used infrequently and neglected routinely.
In 1979, teenagers in Morton Grove often hung out by a river in a patch of woods. They would smoke pot there or just goof around, generally away from authority figures. But on Sept. 5 that year, the community was shocked when two 17-year-old girls were found shot dead there. The girls, friends Eyvonne Bender and Sue Ovington, were well-liked, and homicides were almost unheard of in the north .
Teens killing in Morton Grove unsolved after 44 years chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.