Gazette Chicago

The Chicago Public Library (CPL) and the City’s Department of Planning and Development (DPD) announced a long-awaited new library will arrive as part of a mixed-use development planned for the Back of the Yards community. 

DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute of Metropolitan Development recently released an eleven-page brief asking the City to save the Greyhound bus station at 630 W. Harrison St. The station’s private owners recently put the property, located on the southeastern edge of the newly configured 34th Ward, up for sale. 

A family from the Little Italy neighborhood had “beginner’s luck” with their horse Two Phil’s, which ran second in the Kentucky Derby on May 6.

Mike “Fly” Garcia found great success in the Chicago and national Golden Gloves boxing tournaments in the late 1980s, capturing the Welterweight 147 Senior Novice Division once and the Welterweight 147 Senior Open Division three consecutive years. The lifelong Little Italy resident went on to a successful pro boxing career, became a trainer, and opened his own boxing gym. The old saying “the apple doesn’t fall from the tree” applies to the Garcia family.