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In the autumn of 1989, and just six months after their irrepressibly pretty “Eternal Flame” had hit the top of the charts the world over, The Bangles imploded. It had been an intense run. Three years ...

Iconic ‘80s Band Member Once Claimed Her Group Was Influenced by a Cartoon originally appeared on Parade. Long before the Bangles became the chart-topping band known for such iconic hits as “Eternal ...

The city will provide more than $4.3 million in assistance to a non-profit developer who will build a $17 million mixed-use project in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Chicago-based developer ...

TYLER — Joyce Hendrix Bickerdike, 82, of Tyler, went to be with her Lord on Monday, June 7th, 2021 after a difficult journey with Lewy Body Dementia. Joyce was born in Tyler on August 13, 1938, a ...

A yellow brick sidewalk 200 feet long will be completed this week outside a Humboldt Park affordable housing cluster to commemorate L. Frank Baum, who lived on the site when he wrote “The Wonderful ...

A nonprofit developer and the city have joined forces to fight off a group of landlords bent on blocking an affordable housing project next to the Logan Square Blue Line Station. The city and ...

A building in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood is on track to be transformed from public offices into affordable housing. Chicago-based Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation has proposed constructing ...

Music historian Bickerdike (Being Britney) traces in excruciating detail the rise and fall of the 1980s all-female rock band the Bangles. Sisters Debbi and Vicki Peterson grew up in a music-loving ...