Brian Hopkins.

Ald. Brian Hopkins wants a North Avenue driveway closed and says the scrap yard may have to move.

The annual tree lighting takes place at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Burton Place Park on Wells Street.

Construction crews were resurfacing Fullerton Avenue Thursday and Friday between Racine and Ashland.

Three loft-style 1,500-square-foot apartments will be stacked on top of ground-floor retail.

Preservationists hope to save facade marking 60's, 70's counterculture site at 1610 N. Wells St.

Inspector General Joe Ferguson said he has received a number of complaints about the new policy.

Ald. Michele Smith wants a 10-acre park along the river to be set aside in the Finkl Steel development.

Aldermen Smith and Hopkins say a Downtown pilot program could ease congestion in Lincoln Park, Old Town.

Ald. Brian Hopkins wants parking compensation from "movies that do quite well at the box office."

Ald. Brian Hopkins said the endorsement by the Fraternal Order of Police "fans the flames of division."

Ald. Joe Moreno said the new restrictions will save "taxpayer money and [prevent] the waste of time."

A new ordinance would allow some off-duty police to wear their uniforms while working security jobs. 

Dropping dry ice into rat burrows and sealing them off suffocates the vermin.

The diamonds "take over the entire field," said Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd).

See Lucious, Cookie, and perhaps "Boo Boo Kitty."