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After a nearly two-year hiatus, Loba Pastry +Coffee reopened earlier this summer at its new West Lakeview location. Originally housed for six years on North Lincoln Avenue, after making it through the pandemic, owner Valeria Socorro Velazquez Lindsten decided to upgrade the facility by taking over a retail space about two blocks north of the original location. Loba can now be found next to the ...

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While a spring and summer infusion of tourists has boosted foot traffic in many shopping districts, the Loop is a step behind, and street-level businesses may continue suffering until more

Anyone looking at the tourists thronging downtown might think the pandemic crisis is past. But one thing is missing: office workers.

Central Camera. Photo by Jen Sabella, courtesy Block Club Chicago. You might remember that Central Camera, the old-fashioned, third-generation, more than century-old camera store on the Loop in downtown Chicago, was burned and looted in the rioting that took place...

CHICAGO — When Don Flesch watched his family’s 122-year-old business, Central Camera, burn during the civil unrest that followed the police kil

CHICAGO — When Don Flesch watched his family’s 122-year-old business, Central Camera, burn during the civil unrest that followed the police killing of George Floyd, he vowed to rebuild even

CHICAGO — When Don Flesch watched his family’s 122-year-old business, Central Camera, burn during the civil unrest that followed the police killing of George Floyd, he vowed to rebuild even before firefighters extinguished the blaze. One year later, Central Camera is still boarded up under its iconic neon sign. But the company is open for business in a temporary space next door and preparing ...

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