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The neighborhood's first-ever puzzle swap is set for 1-3 p.m. Sunday at the Logan Square Library, 3030 W. Fullerton Ave.

The festival is coming back for the first time since 2019. In addition to food, this year's event will highlight more Thai culture like music, crafts and dance.

These types of trees expel their seeds en masse every few years, and it usually only lasts a few weeks. The seed blizzard is more noticeable this year because there's been so little rain, an expert said.

The StopAlong at Boiler Room opens this week. The new owners kept some of the original details, but the reimagined restaurant has a different signature pizza and StopAlong staples, arcade games and colorful decor.

The city wants to find better ways to keep people safe during heat waves, so residents are being asked to monitor temperatures in their neighborhoods.

Isabella Avila, 11, got last-minute tickets to the Taylor Swift concert — and got to meet her idol. "She smelled like cherries and her hands were soft," the young Swiftie recalls.

A Cook County judge overruled the city’s decision to block Southside Recycling from opening last week. As Mayor Johnson vows to appeal, neighbors and activists blasted the ruling for rejecting the community's will.

"Vienna Beef Plaza" will include offices for the hot dog brand and additional retail space. The restaurant is slated for a spring 2024 opening.

"Art and Pep" portrays Art Johnston and José Pepe Peña's relationship against the backdrop of Sidetrack's rise to prominence and the local movement for LGBTQ+ equality.

Youth activists are also calling for widespread policy changes at the local, state and federal levels.

Ald. Daniel La Spata pushed through a proposal giving a developer more time to use $27 million in TIF funding for the ambitious project, drawing pushback from other community leaders, including Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa.

The new Black-owned restaurant will be a "marriage" of regional Southern dishes from Mississippi and Tennessee, the co-owners said.

The 13-track album "Be Gay Have Fun!" released last month explores queer joy, community and identity. Catch the band live June 23 at the Logan Square Arts Fest.

Worried the city could lose 800 affordable units as the arm of Heartland Alliance failed to pay its bills, city officials asked a judge to transfer control of the properties to another company.

The farmers market is every Sunday through Oct. 8 and will feature activities like bounce houses, soccer activities and things for pets.

Upper Deck Golf, a traveling experience that allows people to golf from the upper deck of various stadiums, is coming to Wrigley Field July 6-9.

The Broadway Armory, which houses senior and teen centers, is one of many sites being considered as an emergency shelter as the city struggles to house incoming asylum seekers.

The Woodlawn-based dance company's latest work, "Rest.Rise.Move.Nourish.Heal," runs Thursday-Saturday at Urban Growers Collective's Art on the Farm venue in Grant Park.

Organized by the Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce, the annual festival will run July 28-30 on Milwaukee Avenue between Damen and Ashland.