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Let's Make Believe this Summer: WPBMakeBelive

Last night was the opening, or unveiling, of WPBMakeBelieve, which is a project that asked artists to envision commerce of Wicker Park Bucktown as it would be in the future. All of the work is accessible 24 hours a day ...

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Woman beaten with baseball bat in Bucktown transfers out of hospital

Natasha McShane, one of two women beaten with a baseball bat in Bucktown last month, has been transferred from Northwestern Memorial Hospital to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, according to Northwestern ... Stacy Starl Jurich, 24, the other woman injured in the attack, has been released from Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center and is going through rehabilitation ... McShane, 23, of Northern Ireland, and Jurich were walking home April 23 after a night at Cans Bar and Canteen, 1640

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Make Believe and Make Art in Wicker Park Bucktown

Installation artists must be having the time of their lives lately. With all the empty store front "pop up" galleries going up all over the city they definitely don't have a lack of spaces to work. If you wanted to ...

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Lunchbox #11: Does Chicago have an image problem?

Today, we kick-off Lunchbox 11 with a question about image. With youth violence, Bucktown bat attacks and strange self-inflicted stab wounds, is Chicago getting away from our international reputation as the home of Michael Jordan and deep dish? Also, we ask the question on all Chicagoan’s mind: Have you sold your house yet? And [ ... ] ...

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Woman attacked in Bucktown reported out of coma

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1 victim of baseball bat attack appears in public

One of the two women attacked in Bucktown last month by a baseball bat-wielding mugger appeared in public Saturday night at a fundraiser ... Stacy Jurich, 24, still cannot walk and was in a wheelchair as she entered Can's bar, 1640 N. Damen Ave., where a fundraiser was held to help her meet medical and other expenses ... Jurich and her friend Natasha McShane, 23, a UIC graduate student from Northern Ireland, were returning to Jurich's home early on April 23 when they were attacked from behind

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Bat Beating Suspect's Father Comes To Her Defense

Marcy Cruz The father of Marcy Cruz, the female half of the couple being held in the late-April bat beating of two women in Bucktown, has come to her defense, saying Cruz is mentally ill and was off her prescribed medication. Saying that his daughter is bipolar, Edwin Cruz put a lot of the blame on Heriberto Viramontes, the man accused of wielding the bats in the attack: "This guy, well, he was a manipulator. He's good with ladies, he's got sweet talk, he's got green eyes, he's pretty boy."

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Brikenbrak Debuts in Chicago with Samaritan Syndrome

When you enter Bucktown's Gorilla Tango Theatre on Tuesdays this month, you'll find it transformed into a women's ward asylum. An asylum of victimized, broken souls ridden with guilt and codependency. In every room there is a patient waiting to ...

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Parents of Bucktown bat beating victim speak out

Finally, on Friday with her parents holding vigil alongside her hospital bed, Natasha opened her brown eyes. It was the first Liam and Sheila McShane had seen any sign of life in their daughter since rushing to her bedside following the brutal Bucktown mugging that left her fighting for her life ...

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Woman charged in Bucktown bat attack was off her medications, dad says

Father says she was not taking medicine for bipolar disorder ... Marcy Cruz was not taking her medications for bipolar disorder last month at the time officials say she was involved in the savage baseball bat-beating of two women in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood, her father said Monday before a hearing on the case ...

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