Talk about a wild ride from start to finish: A female passenger’s bad behavior on a plane from Miami to Chicago caused the plane to make an emergency stop in Indianapolis on Monday afternoon. According to ABC7 in Chicago, the woman’s unruly behavior aboard American Airlines Flight 1284 led to her arrest. Marian Frendt, a […]
The Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings are North Division rivals in the National Football League’s (NFL) National Football Conference (NFC). There is little love lost between fans and players when they meet on the field, but those emotions become suddenly frivolous when something happens like it did at the end of August. One unidentified roofer
After years of resident protests, Chicago’s South Side is finally expected to receive an adult trauma center to help combat gun violence in one of the city’s most violent neighborhoods. Health officials announced on Thursday that this region will be receiving a medical facility slated to cost around $40 million, which will be a joint
You don’t need to be too familiar with the Internet to know that most everyone on it loves cats. On average, Internet users conduct 12 billion online searches per month, many of which involve videos of cats. There are more than two million cat videos on YouTube, which get more average views than dog videos
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago has a simple mission: to protect the region’s waterways from dangerous pollutants. Yet according to a blistering editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times, the District is leasing government-owned land to serial polluters like Olympic Oil, the company being sued by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan for violating environmental regulations
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner recently signed a new bill that aims to protect nursing home residents throughout the state. House Bill 2462, sponsored by Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago) and Sen. Terry Link (D-Waukegan), was met with what The Telegraph calls “overwhelming support” in the state’s General Assembly. This bill will allow family members of nursing home residents
New construction, cranes, and “Pardon Our Dust” signs are often a strong indicator of a neighborhood’s health, but too often those construction projects come with increased noise and diesel exhaust. But at a construction site at 3030 N. Broadway in Lakeview, that’s about to change. Sadly, no one has yet discovered a way to keep
UPDATED 12/10/20 Built in 1928 and opened only a year later, the Chicago Motor Club is an architectural Chicago landmark. Recently, the Art Deco skyscraper received an infrastructural makeover. With the help of LG Electronics, the Chicago Motor Club added an entire commercial HVAC system, helping it to transform into a 21st century, LEED-certified hotel.
UPDATED 12/3/2020 On May 11, 2015, the federal agency slapped their stamp of approval on “Palcohol,” a powdered alcohol product. Since then, America has been freaking out. Although the product has not even been made available for commercial purchase, some states are taking swift and firm action against the powdered alcohol substance. Since the federal
O’Hare International Airport is getting some much-needed landscaping from some surprising workers: a herd of goats, sheep, llamas, alpacas and burros that tend to six acres on the other side of the fence from where the planes land. The Sustainable Vegetation Management Initiative, now in its third year, has been quite a success. The landscaping