CHICAGO — We rounded up eight of our neighborhood stories, in case you missed them.
• Ald. Roderick Sawyer is fighting on behalf of some South Side residents who say their cars have been unfairly towed from a vacant lot where they parked during a city project that tore up the street in front of their homes.
• Check out these photos of the demolition of the old Finkl Steel site in Lincoln Park.
• Neighbors took issue with a plan to remake an existing Aldi grocery store and build 100 apartments near the Bloomingdale Trail. The neighbors are opposed to the size of the six-story building and what they say is a lack of enough affordable housing units.
• Former Bears great Brian Urlacher is the subject of a new children's book "The Middle School Rules of Brian Urlacher."
The book is popular in the Urlacher household. Urlacher said his kids told him: That's pretty cool, dad."
• Ten-year-old Talia Scott is doing her part to save orphaned dogs.
The Rogers Park Montessori fourth-grader started her own charity project called Crochet to Care, and she's raised $150 for suburban Riverwoods animal shelter Orphans of the Storm since January by selling her hand-crocheted ear warmers.
• The hot commodity on the Far South Side: ice.
Hockey teams are lining up to reserve time at the new indoor ice rink and gymnastics facility at the Morgan Park Sports Center that won't even be open until July.
• New to Chicago: cocktail delivery right to your door. A new service called Cocktail Courier will quench your alcoholic thirst by delivering craft cocktails to your door.
What's your drink of choice?
• This new smoke shop in Little Italy is selling $1,000 bongs.
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