ABC 7 has a good video today talking about some of the negatives and positives surrounding Rio's 2016 Olympic Bid. One thing is for cer...

Take that with a grain of salt, but it's an argument that Brazilian Sports and Olympic officials are touting. According to an article o...

We need your help! Stephanie Ware (a reader, Field Museum employee and fellow Slooper) recently reached out to us about helping her program...

There has been a lot of recent press about the success of downtown colleges in the Loop and South Loop . As a result it's not surprisin...

For non-smokers looking to live in Printer's Row a new rental building might be exactly what you're looking for. The recently finis...

The 13 member IOC 2016 evaluation committee touched down in Rio today and is set to judge how their bid stacks up to the competitions (Chic...

According to businessmart.com and menupages.com , one of our local Sloopin favorites, Howie's (at 1310 S Wabash) , is for sale: Most e...

Over the past couple of years, the city has spent a lot of money upgrading the street scape on Michigan Avenue south of Roosevelt. With the...

As we posted a couple of weeks ago, Chicago has recently unveiled a plan for many neighborhoods in the downtown area . Many of these plans ...

It's Friday and after a long week of CTA buses taking forever and crowded El trains we thought we would pass along this public transit ...

On the front page of chicagotribune.com today the main story was about Chicago's Central Area Action Plan. It sounds like the plan is s...

YoChicago has two recent posts looking at two of the newer developments in the South Loop. The first is a post about Marquee (1464 S. Michi...

Beautiful shot looking east from the Roosevelt Green and Orange line platform from our friends at The Windy Pixel . If you haven't chec...

Today we got word from a reader that a new sign for " The Shrine " has gone up around where we heard the new club/lounge/bar would...