The $3 cup

Some Chicagoans willing to pony up for craft coffee

03/03/2010 10:00 PM

With a Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts seemingly within any two-block radius and McDonald’s offering its new McCafé line of premium coffee and espresso, there are more than enough options for Chicagoans in need of a caffeine fix. But followers of locally owned Intelligentsia Coffee Co. have found a haven for the hot stuff that, in their eyes, those other chains simply don’t deliver.
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Winter walkers


A group of youngsters were towed by their teacher outside Lincoln Park Zoo on a recent snowy morning.
JASON GEIL/Staff Photographer

What saved Prescott?

School pulled off closing list at last second

03/03/2010

Jenn Lister was at home last Tuesday night when the phone rang. It was Robert Runcie, Chicago Public Schools Chief Adminsistrative Officer, and he had the news she was waiting to hear: William H. Prescott Elementary would not be closed.
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Healthy eats

Dissatisfied with after son’s food in the South Loop, couple starts company

03/10/2010

Two years ago, husband and wife team Jason Weedon and Danielle Hrzic investigated their son’s lunch menu at his private preschool in the South Loop and were disappointed with what they saw. They wanted something better, and decided to intervene.
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Epic road work on its way

Four big projects will start April 1

03/03/2010

Four interconnected road construction projects starting this spring will necessitate drastic, temporary changes to the usual entry and exit points to the Loop, and are expected to displace drivers from interstate highways to alternative routes cutting through city neighborhoods.
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Seeds of suicide sown in childhood

03/03/2010

THE RECENT SUICIDE OF A TEENAGE SON OF FRIENDS prompts me to share the opinions and advice of psychologists, psychiatrists and other experts who believe the seeds of suicide are sown in childhood and are reaped after a final harvest of isolation from loved ones and hope, leading to self-destruction.
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