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The Weekend Desk Report

By Steve Rhodes

“A fight broke out over shopping carts at the Patel Brothers grand opening in Niles on Thursday morning,” the Tribune reports.

The largest retail chain of Indian grocery stores in North America, founded in Chicago, was prepared. After a Hindu priest’s blessing, as well as crowd control by private security and local police, shopping and samosa sampling quickly resumed on the first of a four-day grand opening weekend. The excitement drew thousands, some of whom waited for two hours in the rain.
“When we opened the first shop, it was 800 square feet on Devon,” said Talashi Patel, co-founder of Patel Brothers. “Today it’s more.” Thousands of square feet more.
The original Patel Brothers, open since 1974, still stands in the Little India area of the West Rogers Park neighborhood.

I did not know that.

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Posted on October 5, 2019

The [Wednesday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

“Demolition of the University of Chicago-owned American Taxi Service building at 5608 S. Stony Island Ave. is expected to begin this week and will continue until the end of November,” the Chicago Maroon reports.
“The American Taxi Service building, built in 1928, was formerly used by Facilities Services and later converted into a rehearsal space for Court Theatre. However, Court Theatre moved out of the space in 2013. It has been vacant since then.”

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Posted on October 2, 2019

The [Tuesday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

So on Monday, our host migrated us to a new, presumably better server (a new control panel is involved, too; for those one or two people who might like to know, they have ditched cPanel in favor of DirectAdmin, also known as DA). We had a temporary glitch earlier this morning, but otherwise it appears we have survived the move. Now let’s catch up on the news.
Defenestration
In Minneapolis, they are asking: How Did Chicago’s Defense Bring The Vikings To A Screeching Halt?

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Posted on October 1, 2019

The Weekend Desk Report

By Steve Rhodes

Programming Note: The site is migrating to a different server on Monday, so we won’t be back until Tuesday.
“A Lake View restaurant owner pleaded guilty this week to using sales suppression software to underreport more than $1 million in sales at her North Side restaurant,” the Sun-Times reports.

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Posted on September 28, 2019

The [Thursday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

“City Treasurer Kurt Summers announced the Chicago Community Catalyst Fund in 2016 with much fanfare – the city would earmark $100 million to jump-start investments in struggling neighborhoods, providing the seed money needed for ventures in places where many banks had been reluctant to put their money,” the Tribune reports.
Sounds great! I bet by now we’re seeing results.
“None of it was spent. In fact, it wasn’t until Summers was about to leave office this May that he moved $75 million of the earmarked money into a bank account where it could be administered.”
Oh.

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Posted on September 26, 2019

The [Tuesday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

“Two CTA trains collided on Chicago’s North Side Tuesday morning, halting Brown and Purple Lines during the morning rush hour.”
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“A Chicago police officer was hospitalized as a precaution after a hazardous materials response at the CTA Grand Red Line station that temporarily rerouted subway trains to the elevated tracks during Tuesday’s morning rush.”
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“The Chicago Transit Authority announced plans for a nine-day suspension of Blue Line service between the O’Hare and Rosemont stations this month.”

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Posted on September 24, 2019

The [Monday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

“A driver was taken into custody after a car drove through Woodfield Mall Friday afternoon,” WGN-TV reports.

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Posted on September 23, 2019

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