Updates
Spaces with Eva Bergant, Nov. 1st
By chicago-pipeline at November 1, 2011 | 7:45 pm | 0 Comment
It’s still a good time to refinance your existing home. On Oct. 24, the government extended the HARP (Home Affordable Refinance Program) and removed the ceiling for the Loan-to-Value ratio if you move to a fixed rate loan. This means that if your property has decreased in value, you might still be able to reduce your interest rate (not your balance due). Of course, this more...
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Dispatch from Miss Wicker Park Pageant
By chicago-pipeline at November 1, 2011 | 4:12 pm | 0 Comment
Perhaps only in Wicker Park could the talent portion of a beauty pageant include the crafting of penis shaped balloons and hats, a country western-ish custom song with lyrical shout outs to sponsors, a Powerpoint presentation depicting a scenic walk through Wicker Park to clear manic depressive symptoms, and a vaudeville burlesque routine which ended with the performer more...
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Happy Halloween From The Pipeline, Stop By Lubinski’s for Treats, Lots of Spook-tacular Furniture
By chicago-pipeline at October 31, 2011 | 11:21 am | 0 Comment
Happy Halloween! Stop by our 'pop up newsroom' today at Lubinski Furniture, 1550 N. Milw. from 11:30AM-6PM for TRICK or more...
Bucktown , Business , Featured , Neighborhoods , Updates , Wicker Park
Halloween Happenings in Wicker Park Bucktown Logan & East Village
By chicago-pipeline at October 26, 2011 | 11:32 pm | 0 Comment
Happy almost Halloween! Here's our roundup, below, as well as a few festive images snapped by either myself or Philin Phlash, who popped by Great America's annual Fright Fest in Gurnee. If we missed your event, add it as a comment. Check out the 'Insider's Guide' for many more events, as well as the WPB Chamber's Newsletter. Need last minute items? Check out American more...
Articles , Bucktown , Featured , Logan Square , Neighborhoods , Ukrainian Village , Updates , Wicker Park
Spaces with Eva Bergant, Oct. 25
By chicago-pipeline at October 26, 2011 | 4:59 pm | 0 Comment
This week's closings include a house and a condo that don't look like much from the outside, while they provide current luxury on the inside. The MLS (Multiple Listing Service) requires the first photo shown on listings to be the outside of the property. Additional online photos provide views of the interior rooms and capture features of the property and surrounding more...
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CeCe Suggests… Last minute DIY Halloween Costumes
By cecesees at October 26, 2011 | 1:15 pm | 2 Comments
Hey, last minute shoppers! Are you like me and waited until the week before Halloween to pick out your costume? Have n0 fear! DIY costume ideas are here! I make mine a week before Halloween almost every year. Not just because Party City is completely sold out of everything. I'm sick of having to decide between nurse, Playboy bunny, and other degrading, more...
Linkypoos, a Local Links Column
By Dika at October 26, 2011 | 12:54 am | 0 Comment
Finally! The new Lush Cosmetics on Damen will open Friday at 11:00 a.m., according to this Racked Chicago post. The company sells handmade naturally derived soaps, creams, gels and other personal products for men and women. Police patrolling the 1300 block of N. Ashland Ave. last Friday night, approached four men who fled upon seeing the officers. The police gave a more...
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Now Open: Rebel Rebel Roller Derby Skate Shop
By chicago-pipeline at October 26, 2011 | 12:12 am | 0 Comment
This past May, Thia Penta was hanging out at Sunrise Cafe in UK Village with a friend and said, "Somebody should open up a skate shop for Roller Derby Girls." Penta's friend turned the tables around and asked, "Why not you?" Through the process of researching, Thia, a member of the Windy City Rollers league-- she goes by Wreck 'n Shrew on the Manic Attackers more...
Business , Featured , Logan Square , Neighborhoods , Updates
Green Purse, Tape Recorder Missing, Last Seen at Flat Iron, 3:30AM Sat.
By chicago-pipeline at October 24, 2011 | 10:01 pm | 0 Comment
Hi Alisa, I'm one of your loyal Pipeline readers and, as you may remember, partook of your tarot card readings at Caffe De Luca for my birthday last year (you accurately predicted my friend Emily would soon get married). I'm wondering if you ever publish lost/found or theft reports in Pipeline. My purse was stolen at Flat Iron bar late Friday night/early Saturday more...
Neighborhood Shop Offers All the Wigs You Could Ever Possibly Need
By chicago-pipeline at October 24, 2011 | 3:29 pm | 0 Comment
Do you need a wig to go with your Halloween costume? Or just a wig? There are lots of wigs shops in town, yet many of the wig shop owners don’t allow us to get as far as explaining that we’ve been e-publishing weekly local news since April of 2o09. Won and Mi Kim, however, owners of D&S Yo-Yo Merchandise, are the exception. Perhaps on a day when I was feeling more...
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