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Better have the app open when the conductor gets to you! Just had a conductor rudely announce that people “better have the app open when the conductor gets to you” over the intercom. Seems like people who use it piss them off? What’s the deal? Link

Even after one of them (the female on the left) generously paid the woman’s bus fare for her because she was having trouble trying to use her Ventra (fare) card. Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c99_1448221914#zaK8JkGDHZulPrcm.99

Local campground Kayak Morris has been named one of the 10Best: Urban Campgrounds by USA Today. In a profile last week, USA Today interviewed Jennifer Schwartz of GoCampingAmerica.com to ask for 10 spots that are a short drive of a big city and where visitors can still enjoy a unique …

Lavash is proud to serve one of the best Halal Turkish Food in Chicago area, if you are a Doner/Gyro fan, this is the place.Very close to downtown Chicago. Beef Doner, Chicken Doner, Adana Kebab, and unique desserts such as Rice Pudding (Sutlac), Kazandibi are some of their best selections. …

Chicago Vocational Career Academy is a public 4-year vocational high school located in the Avalon Park neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. http://www.cvcacademy.org

Eastern Illinois University students get into a big fight at Walmart in Charleston Illinois on October 24th 2015…if you have any info about this incident contact the Charleston Police Department

Cairá Lee Conner sits chained on top of a ladder, holding the Pan-African flag. (Photo: Sarah Jane Rhee) This article emerged from a collaboration between Truthout and Village Leadership Academy’s GAP year students. Village Leadership Academy is a K-8, social-justice-based school in Chicago. The school focuses on social change, leadership development and …

A robbery was thwarted at a Southwest Side corner store Saturday night when a patron with a concealed carry license shot and killed an armed robber, authorities said. Citing preliminary information, police said a man walked into a store in the 2700 block of West 51st Street in the Gage …

Angry black woman wearing club clothes fire at least 5 shots with a handgun on halsted near Diversy in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago on October 10th, 2015.