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 The stage at St. Martin's Episcopal Church is split into two halves.On stage right, a newlywed couple crosses the threshold.

After the Minneapolis-based company announces a branch closure in her neighborhood, Chicago Ald. Emma Mitts says there is still plenty of banking business for company officials to keep it open.

The Chicago neighborhood known as The Island is less than ten miles from downtown. But it's the kind of place you won't find, unless you're looking for it.

Going through some old slides recently, I ran across this picture. It is not a photo-shopped joke. Once upon a time, the City of Chicago really did nail a couple of street signs into a tree.

A union that has been trying for a decade to gain a foothold among hospital nurses in Chicago has won an election to represent 144 of them in the Austin neighborhood.

Today's film was produced in 1925 by the CTA's predecessor, Chicago Surface Lines. CSL wanted to educate the public on traffic safety, and was willing to smash a lot of cars to do so.

It was hard-ball politics, Chicago style.On this October 24th in 1899, the City of Chicago took over the independent Town of Austin - and Austin didn't like it one bit.The people of Austin had wanted to keep their community of 4,000 separate from the big, bad city.