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As the city prepares to tear down an obsolete viaduct, a look at how public works fashions have changed.

Police have a new “Entertainment Detail” to patrol the Lakeview's vibrant nightlife scene. But how bad is crime in an area that has shootings and homicides in the single digits?

Chicago Pride is now going to run two weekends.Well, sort of.Chicago’s annual Gay Pride Parade consisted of the parade that recently underwent a route change to accommodate record-high crowds and Pride Fest, a two-day precursor to the parade.The parade itself attracted large crowds, with estim

Wal-Mart Inc. made inroads into one of Chicago's most affluent and predominantly gay North Side neighborhoods with its store opening in Lakeview on Wednesday morning.

It’s been just over one week since a video depicting a brutal street attack in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood went viral. That violent incident was just one of several so far this summer in the popular gay entertainment district known as Boystown. But it’s taken the lid off an emotional d

A stabbing captured on video has been the unlikely spark for a fiery debate on race and class in Chicago’s premier gay neighborhood.The video captured a large group of black youth getting into an altercation with a 25-year-old victim.  The scuffle in the late hours of Sunday, July 3rd, re

A videotaped stabbing and beating of a man in Chicago's Boystown neighborhood has torn wide some rifts in that community.At a community policing, or CAPS, meeting Wednesday night, it was standing-room only for hundreds in the auditorium of the Inter-American Elementary School in Lakeview.