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Minority firm buys Moo & Oink brand

Store’s piecemeal sale bittersweet for employees By La Risa Lynch Moo & Oink, the shuttered retail meat company, will live on in name only as a minority owned company acquired the former store’s brand and…



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Chatham Pancake House re-opening?

CAPCC’s President Keith Tate says former owner in discussions to reopen restaurant by La Risa Lynch The Chatham Pancake House or any other Chatham location will not be home to a proposed pawnshop. Members attending…


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Replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Day?

Native Americans: ‘We’re not against Italians, just Columbus, the terrorist’ By Chinta Strausberg A day before the traditional Columbus Day parade, nearly 100 Native Americans wearing traditional regalia Sunday, Oct. 9th, held a rally at…


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Pawnshop a no go for Chatham for now

Residents reject pancake house proposal, physician but EZPAWN still looking for other locations By La Risa Lynch Chatham residents handedly rejected a proposal by a national pawnshop chain to open in the shuttered Chatham Pancake…


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Judge rules Daley can be sued

Former Chicago mayor has Sept. 8 deposition in police torture suit This article originally appeared in the Final Call Newspapers By La Risa R. Lynch Retired Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s luck seemingly has run…


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Top ten health concerns for kids

Drug abuse and obesity seen as top child health problems ANN ARBOR, Mich., PRNewswire-USNewswire — Adults rate drug abuse and childhood obesity as the top health concerns for kids in their communities, according to the…


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Did your bank make the grade?

Bank watchdog group rates financial institutions’ CRA performance By La Risa Lynch Report cards were handed out for local banks serving Austin and neighboring western suburbs, and one bank in particular didn’t fare so well….