• A family fought to stay put in a home that they've squatted in for three years in Rogers Park and lost their court battle.
The family of Jorge Ortiz claim they've taken a vacant, foreclosed home and transformed it into a community center to help others struggling with finding housing the neighborhood. But they've also drawn criticism from neighbors living next door that the house became a party venue.
• Did you know that Chicago has the world's only museum devoted to buttons?
The Busy Beaver Button Museum at 3279 W. Armitage Ave. in Logan Square has about 10,000 buttons. It is planning another move soon with an eye toward expansion.
• Here's everything you need to know about how you can donate your body to science in Chicago. We took a tour of the Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois' facility in the Medical District, where nearly 40,000 cadavers have come through since 1918.
• We caught up with Doug Sohn this week and asked him what he's doing with his newfound free time after closing the iconic Avondale sausage joint Hot Doug's last year.
He said he's figuring out his next move, but that's not going to be Hot Doug's 2.0: "There's just no chance. There's nothing I could think of that was as much fun or as perfect as Hot Doug's was."
• The city began picking up dibs debris off the streets Friday, but in West Rogers Park, a man who we'll only call Vince, decided to start cleaning it up on his own.
Earlier this week he collected all the household items left on his block's mostly snowless street and piled them up on the corner parkway.
"I just felt something had to be done," he said.
Community leaders in Englewood are hopeful that a planned $20 million project to build a call center will bring as many as 1,200 jobs to the neighborhood.
• There are only a few more weeks left to use the city's outdoor ice skating facilities. Here's where you can still go.
• Here's a list of the Chicago schools with the worst measles vaccination rates.
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