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Thieves take ATM after crashing into South Loop currency exchange

According to ABC 7, witnesses said the crash-and-grab theft happened as film crews for the TV show ‘Chicago Fire’ were setting up for a scene at a nearby restaurant.

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Chicago woman tells how she snagged a Starbucks Stanley ‘winter pink’ cup

Krystal P. lined up early outside the South Loop Target store to buy one of the limited-edition tumblers before they sold out.

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Man fatally shot in South Loop: police

Corey Ivy, 32, was found in the drivers seat of a parked vehicle in the first block of West Cermak Road around 9:15 p.m., Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

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South Loop had a hybrid car dealership — a century ago. Now it’s headed toward demolition.

But a building that beckoned towards the future, housing the former Woods Motor Vehicle Co., shouldn’t be consigned to the past, architecture critic Lee Bey writes.

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Vacant South Loop stores becoming a restaurant and coffee shop thanks to entrepreneurs

Sip & Savor coffee shop and Southern Chicago restaurant are moving into an area that’s seen major chains move or pull back from the busy Roosevelt Road corridor.

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South Loop gets its first recreational weed dispensary

It’s been six months since Matthew Brewer celebrated the opening of Grasshopper Club’s first shop in Logan Square. Opening its second shop at 58 E. Roosevelt Road was no easier, he said.

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Chicago police union boss blasts mayor for calling teen looting a ‘trend’: ‘That means, do whatever the hell you want, apparently’

“Nobody is renaming anybody little mini-Al Capones. But they certainly, in many cases, had the same, terrorizing effect that Al Capone had 100 years ago,” John Catanzara said.

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Hundreds of migrants moved from temporary shelters, South Loop police station ahead of Lollapalooza

Chicago’s migrant crisis continues as the city struggles to place people coming to the city for refuge.

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‘They come to this country with a dream’: Woman teaches English to migrants on a Chicago basketball court

CHICAGO — There hasn’t been a single day since May that Samantha Oulavong is not thinking of the migrants who stay at the police station in her neighborhood in the South Loop. The children, she said, remind her of her younger self, when her parents made their way from Laos…

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South Loop Walgreens transforms into ‘test’ store with digital displays, hidden products

The newly renovated location largely relies on digital kiosks that let shoppers order items while an employee pulls the merchandise from behind a counter.

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Lyft driver charged with firing gun in South Loop movie theater in dispute with passenger

Babacar Mbengue, 35, of Oakland on the South Side, is charged with reckless discharge of a firearm, Chicago police said. No one was hurt.

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Gunfire closes South Loop movie theater, 2 in custody

No one was hurt when shots were fired during a fight Saturday night inside a movie theater at the Roosevelt Collection.

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Woman, 72, struck and killed by truck in South Loop

Police say a box truck turning north onto the 1100 block of South Wabash Avenue struck a woman in a crosswalk. She was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

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Bridgeport artist ZorZorZor’s South Loop alley mural won her a distant fan and a paid commission

Creating art in such out-of-the-way spots feels “more real, more genuine,” she says. A woman in California saw a photo of it and had her do a painting based on the mural.

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Man shot during attempted robbery at party in South Loop apartment

The man, 27, was attacked in a 14th floor apartment in the 1300 block of South Wabash Avenue, police said.

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4 dead, 3 wounded in shootings in Chicago Monday

A man and woman were found shot to death inside a home in the South Loop Monday.

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CTA worker hurt in fall in South Loop

The employee was working on a platform below the tracks when he fell to a parking lot underneath.

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Holiday gifts for the incarcerated, a small gesture with a big impact: ‘They need to know people care about them’

Congregants of the evangelical Willow Creek Community Church assembled just over 1,000 gift bags for inmates Sunday in the South Loop.

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‘Twilight Zone’ and the pandemic inspired artist Kaitlyn Beiriger’s South Loop mural

The artist watched reruns of the black-and-white sci-fi TV series to pass time amid COVID shutdowns. That led to her mural ‘Time Piece’ at 1014 S. Michigan Ave.

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Chicago police car collides with Jeep in South Loop

Two officers were hospitalized in good condition, police said.

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Man beaten, robbed on Red Line train in South Loop

The man was beaten and robbed after refusing to give cigarettes to a group of men on the Red Line train, police said.

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Jones College Prep students protest German soldier costume, admin’s handling of controversial incidents

Hundreds of students at the South Loop selective-enrollment school participated in Monday’s demonstration, leaving their classes for a “sit-in” in the school’s lobby.

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Person found fatally shot in South Loop home

The male, whose age wasn’t known, was found with a gunshot wound to the head inside a home in the 2000 block of South Michigan Avenue.

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Top CPS officials privately warned a new Near South school could undermine neighboring schools, harm Black students

While Mayor Lori Lightfoot has touted the new school to serve Chinatown and other neighborhoods, CPS alumni and even staff inside CPS fear it will do damage to existing schools that serve predominantly African American students.

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Man killed in South Loop shooting: police

An unidentified man was killed after being shot in the 1200 block of South Plymouth Court.

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