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The now-defunct Checkerboard Lounge blues bar doubled as a popular UChicago college hangout before it relocated to Harper Court. “We were there to be part of the South Side, to experience Chicago in that way.”—Ethan Michaeli (A.B. ‘89)
The following individuals have been sentenced in 73A District Court or bound over to 24th Circuit Court: Mark Lester Micale, Melvin. Count 1, false pretenses-$1,000 or more but less than $20,000. Count 2, larceny by conversion-$1,000 or more but less than $20,000. Count 3, occupational code-performing occupation without license-first offense. Exam held. Bound over. Amber
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The CPL system celebrates its 150th anniversary. Sometimes it simply offers a quiet and safe place to sit, to think, to dream.
With the state selling the building where it has stood for nearly four decades, “Monument with Standing Beast” will have to move to a new location.
First, the good news: People who arrive to New York by intercity rail no longer experience the city like rats. Beyond that, it’s difficult to say that taxpayers are exceptionally well served by $1.6 billion they just spent to convert a portion of the James A. Farley Building from postal service into an arrivals and departure hall for Amtrak and some Long Island Rail Road passengers. For decades since the demolition of the original Pennsylvania Station, of course, those passengers were poorly served by that epochal building’s ne’er-do-well replacement: a series of rabbit warrens under Ma...