I was born in Elgin, 10 minutes before my twin brother, Tim. He has since made up for his tardiness in height, towering over me today by about 1 and 1/2 feet. He and I are tied for the youngest in the family—though I like to consider myself a middle child—and have two older brothers. I grew up on one of the last standing farms in what is now the well-developed area of Prairie View. For those who do not know the town, it is a northwest suburb of Chicago sandwiched in the middle of Long Grove, Buffalo Grove and Lincolnshire. I moved to Minnesota to attend Winona State University, which is situated right on the Mississippi River. During my time there, I left for six months to study abroad in Granada, Spain, where I traveled throughout the provinces and even ran with the bulls in Pamplona. I returned to Illinois in June 2007 after graduating with a B.A. in Mass Communications: Journalism and Spanish. I wrote for The Daily Chronicle in DeKalb until June 2010. There, I covered education for about two years, crime for nearly one and during my home stretch, delved into issues centered on the governments of DeKalb County and the City of Sycamore.
Workers are busy renovating a Western Avenue building that will soon be an urgent care clinic in Northcenter. It's scheduled to open this summer.
After months without word from Walgreens developers, residents will have the chance to weigh in on specific details for what has so far been considered a controversial pharmacy coming to Armitage Avenue.
Chicago police said Tuesday they were questioning a man in connection with a Monday night stabbing in nearby Old Town at a Red Line stop.
A new restaurant and butcher shop is coming to one of Wicker Park's main drags. But the space has more to offer than prime cuts of meat.
Chicago police said Tuesday they were questioning a man in connection with a Monday night stabbing at a Red Line stop.
Although baby Nayembi has returned to the Lincoln Park Zoo's Regenstein Center for African Apes, she is not yet physically reunited with her mother.
Officials from the Chicago Police Department updated the total number of guns seized within the city's limits this week. The initiative is part of an aggressive approach to anti-violence, they said.
Construction was under way this week on a significant expansion to Lincoln Park's Steppenwolf Theatre Company. The business permit for the renovation was issued March 5.
A nearby Chicago pet store—and the city's oldest—that was recently identified by the U.S. Humane Society as getting puppies from mills is making a bold move.
A nearby Chicago pet store—and the city's oldest—that was recently identified by the U.S. Humane Society as getting puppies from mills is making a bold move.
Beginning at the age of 2 to 3 months, a female rat can produce four to seven litters per year with each litter containing eight to twelve offspring. Warm weather beckons the critters. See how 2013 complaints in West Town and Logan Square stack up.
Life moves fast and at Chicago Patch, we know it's easy to miss something. Every Saturday, we're compiling a list of the most-read news stories of the past seven days or so that we've reported right here on the North Side.
Patch combed through inspection reports of local restaurants, grocery stores and other food establishments. Some businesses that had previously failed eventually passed, while others had no problems passing the first time.
Chicago Police issued an alert last week regarding a series of robberies that have been reported within a law enforcement district that includes a section of Lincoln Park.
Representatives from DePaul University announced this past week that FOX Sports and its national cable channel will get exclusive media rights to the school's new conference as part of a 12-year contract. Three new schools joined the Big East, too.
A local reporter recently stopped by a Lincoln Park Indonesian restaurant that serves up remarkable street food that owners say is, "authentic, unpretentious and delicious." See what he thought of the grub and find out which "sleeper
Check out these jaw-dropping photos! This five bedroom, five bathroom Lincoln Park home near DePaul University spares no expense.
A new saloon opened last week in Wicker Park. Learn more about what it has to offer.
A nearby Chicago pet store—and the city's oldest—that was recently identified by the U.S. Humane Society as getting puppies from mills is making a bold move.
Protesters gathered Wednesday morning outside a Lincoln Park-based company that they say has been giving false eviction notices to tenants.