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  • 1 week ago | wgntv.com | Patrick Elwood

    Posted: May 28, 2025 / 05:00 PM CDT Updated: May 28, 2025 / 05:01 PM CDT Tatiana Williams says she started buying flowers during the pandemic to brighten up her surroundings. She wanted to extend the beauty of flowers to the community. In 2024, Williams saw the perfect foundation to grow a flower shop in a vacant building at 1415 West 79th Street.

  • 1 week ago | wgntv.com | Patrick Elwood

    GARY, Ind. (WGN) — Once a bustling Midwest steel town, officials in Gary, Ind., are promising to make a comeback and redevelop the city to reverse the trend of population decline, abandoned buildings and blight that is too much a part of its 2025 landscape. Leaders in the Northwest Indiana city of fewer than 70,000 teamed up with the University of Notre Dame to create a master plan of a vibrant, attractive and walkable downtown district.

  • 2 weeks ago | wgntv.com | Patrick Elwood

    Posted: May 22, 2025 / 06:44 PM CDT Updated: May 22, 2025 / 06:44 PM CDT CHICAGO — Pope Leo’s connection to Chicago is by now well known to the masses but long before he was born and raised in Dolton, his ancestors left the old world of Italy to begin a new life in America. Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Mariyana t. Spyropoulos started at adeep dive into the genealogy as soon after Pope Keo was chosen.

  • 2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Patrick Elwood

    CHICAGO — Pope Leo’s connection to Chicago is by now well known to the masses but long before he was born and raised in Dolton, his ancestors left the old world of Italy to begin a new life in America. Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Mariyana t. Spyropoulos started at adeep dive into the genealogy as soon after Pope Keo was chosen.

  • 2 weeks ago | wgntv.com | Patrick Elwood |Eli Ong

    CHICAGO (WGN) — The mustache look is a popular one these days, and that’s especially so for one member of the Chicago White Sox. Outfielder Austin Slater said his mustache was born out of superstition, but he and the follicle foray happening on his upper lip are serving a special purpose for the month of May. You know, besides looking good inside a batter’s box. “One of our teammates in Triple-A, he started to hit really well,” Slater said Wednesday. “We were scuffling at the time. He got super hot.

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