Parker School Expansion Advances Despite Neighbors’ Opposition To Apartment Demolition
The private school wants to demolish a 15-unit Belden Avenue apartment building to make room for a five-story academic building.
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It’s time for both sides of this great baseball town to come together.No, not the fans. We know better than to ask for that.Rather, we mean the Cubs and White Sox themselves, for — a doff of the cap and a drumroll, please — the Sun-Times’ 2026 All-City Team is here.Beat writers Vinnie Duber (Cubs) and James Fegan (Sox) joined frequent baseball scribe Jeff Agrest and yours truly in selecting a 17-man team: one player at each position in the field, a designated hitter, four starting pitchers,…
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When Carole King sang about feeling the earth move in 1971, she was prophesying the moment 55 years later when her songwriting descendant Alanis Morissette would take over Douglass Park and bring more than tens of thousands of people together to sing “you, you, you oughta know” from the depths of their jagged little hearts.It was one of the most powerful moments of the Riot Fest 2026 weekend, and yes, underneath the soggy abyss, you could feel the ground shift a little with the weight of the…
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Baseball’s a team sport.There are 26 guys on the roster and a lot of things that need to go right in order to ensure victory and a run to a championship.But while it takes a lot of contributors to win a World Series, having the game’s best player – in the Cubs’ case, MVP favorite Pete Crow-Armstrong – among them ain’t too shabby.“He affects the game in every aspect,” designated hitter Michael Conforto said of his teammate last week. “Every time he comes up to the plate, he can change the score.…