Lollapalooza will fill Grant Park with hundreds of thousands of people next weekend, the latest event that — like the Pitchfork Musical Festival and the Grateful Dead's farewell concerts at Soldier Field before it — puts Chicago center stage.
With spring's NFL draft, which transformed itself and Grant Park into a three-day football fan festival, the city's plan to raise its profile and promote tourism through large-scale events is showing momentum.
While locals may grumble about cordoned-off streets and lollygagging visitors, and skeptics question...
As one Chicago suburb struggles to cope with chronic overcharging by its "smart" digital water meters, another is ramping up random testing after finding that some of its meters claimed usage when not even hooked up.
The revelations in west suburban Aurora open a new front in questions over the accuracy of next-generation water meters at a time when they're gaining popularity across Chicagoland and the country, and in a state that does little to ensure most water meters installed in homes are accurate.
Aurora officials stressed that the problems...
Joseph Campbell's body lay in a pool of blood on a West Side sidewalk as the sun began to rise early Saturday morning, hours after he had been fatally shot in the abdomen and right shoulder.
The crowds had come and gone and come again since Campbell, 32, had been shot at 12:50 a.m. -- the curious, neighbors, police, Campbell's girlfriend, and family.
But one person had yet to arrive in the 4900 block of West Hubbard Street in Austin. And then she did, just as a white body removal van pulled up to the scene.
A pair of body removal workers stepped...
For her ninth birthday earlier this month, Kelsey Kreyer, a freckle-faced fourth-grader, sat happily atop her own all-terrain vehicle at the Rocky Glen ATV park in Rockford. Mud splatters on the child-sized four-wheeler, a full-body protective suit and helmet showcased the thrill of her most recent ride.
"This is great bonding for me and her," said her father, Josh Kreyer, who shadowed his daughter's every move on his own adult-sized ATV. "I wouldn't let my child ride anything she wasn't comfortable on."
For the Kreyers, of Roscoe, and other families...
When Cubs President Theo Epstein left an hourlong meeting with Kyle Schwarber in February 2014 at the team complex in Mesa, Ariz., he sensed something special about the Indiana catcher, who was in town for a college tournament.
Epstein and Cubs senior vice president/scouting Jason McLeod already knew Schwarber could hit but never imagined him being able to connect even more powerfully with people, eye to eye. There are no sabermetrics that measure character. This, Epstein knew immediately, was the kind of guy the Cubs needed in their clubhouse.
Epstein's strong first impression led to Cubs area scout Stan Zielinski, one of the organization's best, building a close enough relationship to learn about everything from Schwarber's catching tendencies to his days in the Middletown (Ohio) High School show choir.
"The real value of area scouts with those high picks is we know the numbers are there, (but) they really get to know the player, the person and the family,'' Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer said. "They dig like crazy. Those scouts are worth their weight in gold because they can find out attributes about a player the rest of the country may not know.''
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