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Free clinics tighten boundaries

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Published July 6, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

People who live south of Howard Street or west of I-294 will no longer be seen at two free clinics inside NorthShore Evanston Hospital unless they were already patients there before July 1 -- a move that has raised concern about access to care for low-income residents of Rogers Park ...

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Loyola making big plans for Rogers Park campus

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Published July 6, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

Loyola University Chicago has delivered to city officials a zoning proposal for a multi-year plan of additions and improvements to its Rogers Park campus. The proposal calls for new housing, including dorms and market-rate homes, immediately south and west of the campus at Devon and Sheridan ...

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Bathtub drowning investigation continues

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Published July 5, 2010 at 6:04 p.m.

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Woman found in tub at nursing home ... Chicago police on Monday were conducting a death investigation after a 51-year-old mentally ill woman was found drowned in a bathtub in a West Rogers Park nursing home ...

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Joe Moore, Champion of Progressivism, Defends Pro-Walmart Vote

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Published July 1, 2010 at 5:36 p.m.

Back in 2008, The Nation magazine's John Nichols named Alderman Joe Moore of the 49th Ward the country's most valuable progressive local official. The bestowing of this distinction upon Moore sent some Rogers Park residents into a tizzy. (Although the ...

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Murder victim found in car of missing man

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Published May 16, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

A man found Friday duct-taped and wrapped in a bed sheet in the back of the car belonging to a missing Rogers Park man was shot to death, authorities said Saturday. The car belonged to Kirk Flowers, a missing Rogers Park man last seen May 8, according to Flowers' brother James Loague ...

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Duct-taped body found in car of missing man was shot

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Published May 15, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

The body of a man that was shot multiple times, wrapped in a bed sheet and duct-taped was found Friday in the back of a car that belongs to a missing Rogers Park man ...

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Eviction Trial Ends in Victory for Rogers Park Tenant

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Published May 12, 2010 at 11:36 a.m.

Carol Vialdores, the Rogers Park mother of five who was facing eviction from her subsidized apartment, has won her case and will stay in her apartment. Her trial ended after two days in court, and she was found not guilty ...

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A bit of Buck Rogers in the 21st & 1/10th century

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Published May 14, 2010 at 8:53 a.m.

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I was on the top floor of the parking structure behind the Best Buy on Roosevelt Road a couple of weeks ago when I caught his view of the 62-story One Museum Park and its little brother, the 54 story One Museum Park West.Compressed by my western vantage point (and with the help of a [ ... ] ...

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Keeping a Roof Over Their Heads

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Published May 7, 2010 at 3:38 p.m.

Fair housing activists are fighting to keep Carol Vialdores and her children in their Rogers Park apartment ...

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Family of Six Faces Eviction in Rogers Park

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Published May 7, 2010 at 12:52 p.m.

Carol Vialdores and her children have lived in Rogers Park for 16 years. Currently residing near the Chicago-Evanston border off of Howard Street, the family has never lived anywhere besides the Far North Side. "The kids have never changed schools," ...

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