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Winter flower shows blooming with colors at Lincoln Park, Garfield Park conservatories

Open through Jan. 7, winter flower shows at the Lincoln Park Conservatory and Garfield Park Conservatory offer a vibrant escape from gloomy winter days.

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Lincoln Park uses its home-court advantage to the max, upsets Young in statement victory

Lincoln Park may have the best home-court advantage in Chicago. The Lions have never been a basketball powerhouse, so that isn’t widely known.

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Lincoln Park life sciences hub adds 4 biotech research firms

The new tenants will bring the building at 2430 N. Halsted St. to 80% occupancy.

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Chicago Marathon spectators’ mile-by-mile watching guide — all you need to know

Use our map and recommendations for each mile marker to help you stake out your perfect viewing perch, from nearby L stops to where to eat or grab coffee.

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Cubs blame ‘perfect storm’ of weather, wind conditions for Fall Out Boy fallout

Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) said he could hear music from the Wednesday night concert at his Lincoln Park home.

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5 heridos en un tiroteo por la madrugada cerca de Lincoln Park Zoo

Un grupo de personas estaba reunido en el exterior del zoológico cuando se inició una pelea antes de que alguien sacara una pistola y disparara alrededor de las 4:40 a.m.

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Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum employees vote to unionize

Workers in Lincoln Park and at a collections facility in Ravenswood will join Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

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‘Mixed emotions’ for shooting victim Dakotah Earley after 2nd man charged in Lincoln Park robbery

“We are happy that this individual has been removed from our streets,” his mother Joy Dobbs said in a statement. “But it is also very hard for us to relive that day again.”

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A tree older than Chicago is about to be cut down

The Lincoln Park Zoo bur oak, believed to be 250 to 300 years old, is dying. It’s due to be cut down Monday.

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Nearing 100, Artist Laureate of Illinois Kay Smith says her passion for painting keeps her going

Smith was named a laureate along with five other recipients in 1994 by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, for “contributions to the betterment of humanity that have been accomplished in or on behalf of the State of Illinois.”

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Illinois legislature passes assault weapon ban, a new tool for Metra riders and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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African lion Zari due to deliver new cubs any day now at Lincoln Park Zoo

An ultrasound revealed that 4-year-old Zari is expecting at least two cubs, zoo officials announced Monday.

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Body pulled from Lake Michigan near Lincoln Park

An autopsy to determine the person’s cause of death was pending.

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Woman robbed at gunpoint while walking dog in Lincoln Park. ‘I was dumbfounded. It took me a couple of seconds to realize I just got mugged.’

Neither Diana Dejacimo nor her dog Jasper were injured, but the attack Wednesday morning made her appreciate even more her decision recently to move from the city to Wisconsin.

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A low for LA politics: Council member and activist fight as children watch in horror

LOS ANGELES — On Friday evening, more than 100 children and their parents were gathered at Lincoln Park for a tree-lighting celebration.

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New cub(s) in town? Lincoln Park Zoo announces lion pregnancy

Officials said the pregnancy could bring up to five new cubs to the zoo, an “exciting” prospect for both the zoo and a “vulnerable” African lion population.

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‘eat ghareeb nawaz or else’: Existential Twitter account pays homage to Indian-Pakistani restaurant where nobody goes hungry

CHICAGO — Almost 30 years ago, Mohammed Bashir founded affordable late-night Indian-Pakistani restaurant Ghareeb Nawaz with a simple motto: Nobody goes hungry.

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Abraham Lincoln statue in Lincoln Park vandalized

Anonymous group seeking to draw attention to Indigenous Peoples’ Day claims credit for pouring paint on the ‘Standing Lincoln,’ calling the 16th president ‘a colonizer.’

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This treasured Oklahoma municipal golf complex just turned 100 years old, and is busier than ever

For 100 years, people have been making memories at this two-course golf complex on the city's northeast side.

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With her hummingbird mural in Lincoln Park, Cheri Lee Charlton aims to draw you in to linger

She painted the mural last year on a building at 1538 N. Clybourn Ave.

Chicago Tribune

Catalytic converter theft: Removing auto exhaust device takes a minute, but replacing it could take months

When Ken Shay, a longtime Chicago resident, went out to start his 2013 Lexus RX 350 SUV parked near his Lincoln Park apartment on a recent weekday morning, he was in for a rude awakening.

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The Great Fire slowed interest in wood buildings, but Chicago’s first mass timber tower could soon take shape

CHICAGO — Developer Sterling Bay is set to begin construction of Chicago’s first mass timber building, a nine-story, apartment tower in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. If approved by City Council, the $50 million development may kick off widespread use of the modern technique, already popular in other cities, which boosters…

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Fate of Lincoln Park recluse Henry Darger’s famed works at center of federal court fight, half a century after their discovery in Lincoln Park

Recluse janitor Henry Darger spent more than 40 years in a tiny one-room apartment in Lincoln Park, writing, painting, sketching, collecting and fantasizing.

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Review: John Mulaney shocks the United Center, spinning stories of rehab and not-niceness

CHICAGO — John Mulaney, a bit heavier in the face since last we saw him, a bit more weathered since his personal life imploded publicly, now looking eager to shed his Catholic choirboy air at 39, stepped out of the wings at the United Center on Thursday night with visibly…

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11-year-old charged with attempted carjacking in Douglas; 2 teens charged with Lincoln Park carjacking

The 11-year-old allegedly tried to take a vehicle by force from a 48-year-old woman in the 3400 block of South Giles Avenue, police said.

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