Gunshots reported at Columbia
College officials are investigating a fight that started after performance

Reports of gunfire brought at least nine police cars to a student talent show in at a Columbia building April 22, according to a spokeswoman from the Chicago Police Department’s News Affairs Department.

College officials said the incident is under investigation.
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University Center expected to boost local development
Students, retail necessary for area's growth

In many respects, the area around Columbia can be seen as a neighborhood in transition: Huge retail projects are being built on the area’s southern edge, the northern boundary is coalescing around an academic corridor, and a residential property explosion continues unabated.
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Planned park receives praise, disparagement
Northwest side lot to be devoted to anarchist

Lucy Parsons was a lot of things: a wife, a mother, a dressmaker. But Chicagoans like to remember her for her contributions to the city’s labor movement in the late 19th century, and the Chicago Park District wants to immortalize her by christening a park in her name.

Out of the Park District’s 500-plus parks, only 27 are named after women, and Park District officials said they wanted to increase that number, said Julian Green, spokesman for the Chicago Park District.
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Congress Parkway panned for not meeting city's needs
Chicago residents discuss road's function in development of South Loop

Hala Megahy tries to cross one of the most dangerous intersections in Chicago at least a half-dozen times every day.
It’s not always easy.

“I can never cross Congress,” said Megahy, a sophomore marketing communications major living in Columbia’s 18 E. Congress Parkway Building for the past two years. With turning cars, stopped buses and blocked taxicabs, the congested intersection of Congress and South Wabash Avenue sees hundreds of pedestrians like Megahy and thousands of vehicles every day.
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Most college students exist off of couch change, selling loose cigarettes and begging their parents for money. It’s a tenuous arrangement, but it works out nicely.

The thing is, lots of people want your money—all of it.

If you were passing by the sidewalk in front of the Wabash Campus Building, 623 S. Wabash Ave., April 19, you probably noticed a coven of women dressed like hookers handing out free samples of “Axe Deodorant Body Spray.” You know, it’s the stuff that leaves you smelling like gas station soap.
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Editorial: MLB doesn’t need to turn tricks for money

Baseball’s been very, very good to us.

It’s given us Babe Ruth, Little League and the ever-popular ballpark hot dog.

But it hasn’t all been sweet American romanticism. Baseball has also given us corked bats, steroid scandals and the 1919 World Series fix.
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Get the low down on gettin' down
A 700-plus page book provides how-to on the birds and the bees and everything in-between

Do it to me, touch me there. Oh, baby, baby. I need you to blank blank my blank blank right now.

Oh yes, kids, it’s getting hot in here—a damn good time to learn the naked truth about what adults do behind closed doors. Thankfully, the over 700-page Guide to Getting it On—a bible full of how-to’s for electrifying nights of passion; enticing, exciting and enchanting things to do to, and with, your significant other ; and, well, full-blown instructions and illustrations on properly giving a blow job—answers all that a curious mind needs to know about sex.
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Hancock's 'voyage' brings him to Chicago
Legendary jazz pianist performs at Symphony Center with musical greats DeJohnette and Holland

Jazz greats Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland have played together before, most notably back in 1968 when they were all part of the legendary Miles Davis band that recorded In a Silent Way, often referred to as one of the most important and influential albums in all of jazz. More recently, they teamed up with guitarist Pat Metheny as part of DeJohnette’s 1990 Parallel Realities album and tour, and on Hancock’s own 1995 effort, New Standard.
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