Keeping food at the 28th annual Taste of Chicago fresh and safe is Frances Guichard’s primary concern this week. But, then again, it’s her primary concern the other 355 days of the year. As the Food Protection Program Director of
Bond was set at $300,000 Tuesday for a Chicago man charged with sexually assaulting 11-year-old girl he met through the internet. The man was arrested in South Holland.
City Colleges of Chicago offered instant enrollment to future students who attended a Rainbow PUSH conference.
Food safety has been on Chicagoans’ minds recently with 17 confirmed cases of salmonella in the city since mid-April. With the Taste of Chicago, which had it’s own hummus-induced salmonella outbreak last year, kicking off its 28th year over the weekend many wondered if health concerns would keep food lovers away.
Indiana store owners are hearing their cash registers ring as Cook County residents are stampede across the Illinois into Indiana to avoid the county's new 10.25 percent sales tax.