An Algonquin home fire that broke out in the early morning Wed., March 25, displaced two people but caused no injuries, officials have said. According to a statement from the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District, which covers the northwest Chicago suburb, the blaze started in an upstairs bathroom of the two-story home, located
At the beginning of March, Chicago School District 109 Superintendent Mike Lubelfeld posted a video on YouTube urging parents and students to take the controversial standardized PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) test. Although students had been the ability to opt out of the test — with plenty of support from
Sports gear brand Under Armour has opened its flashiest store to date on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, one of the city’s most exclusive shopping areas. The store, which the company is calling its Chicago Brand House, is located at 600 N. Michigan Ave. and carries a variety of men’s, women’s and youth’s apparel and footwear, as
One of the biggest names in athletic wear finally opened their flagship store in Chicago last week. The new store is not only the largest that the company has, but it also has features and departments that aren’t found in any of their other stores. Under Armour decided to open a flagship store to focus
Just a few years after launching its social media services for businesses struggling to adapt to the digital age, Chicago-based tech company Geofeedia has announced that it has raised a total $6.8 million in funding since 2011. Geofeedia released an announcement on March 5th that it had acquired an additional $3 million, four months after
Conversion therapy, a widely used practice that attempts to “cure” a person identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or gender dysphoric, has been called a heinous and dangerous thing to do to the well being of youth and young adults. Fortunately, one state is doing something about it. Reparative therapy, as conversion therapy is sometimes called,
Graffiti is a huge problem in many urban areas. In Chicago, one resident decided to fight graffiti with more graffiti. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Dave Prawdzik, a 66-year-old Vietnam veteran, was fed up with the constant graffiti defacing the fence outside of his home. The fence was designed to protect his yard from the
In 2006, nine-year-old Marcus Norris was sitting in his family’ living room, watching TV and eating ice cream with his brothers, when the unthinkable happened: a stray bullet shot through the walls of the quiet house, located in Chicago’s South Side, and became lodged in Norris’s jawbone. Although doctors were able to remove the bullet,
A Chicago-area woman has become the first in the world to fitted for a Triton “smart ankle,” a prosthetic that she can adjust using a smartphone app. Vernita Jefferson, 73, is a longtime resident of the Chatham neighborhood. She was diagnosed with peripheral arterial disease in 2007, and had her left leg amputated below the