September 2026 PDF

Choosing a kindergarten from fear sent one family four miles and nine hours a day away from home, until a five-block walk brought them back.

A kinetic sculpture has kept watch over Cedar Lake since 1983. Now the sliver of land it stands on is on the market.

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The Park Board’s fiscal shortfall amounts to roughly one-tenth of 1% of the city’s proposed budget, a math teacher argues, and no line item delivers more for the money.

Three miles east of Uptown, Ingebretsen’s Anna Bloomstrand watched her stretch of Lake Street move from crisis to cooperation. What worked was not construction. It was a room where people knew each other.

The Park Board rebuilt the lakeside pavilion for $6.5 million, then renewed a 2017 concession decision without reopening it to bidders. The concept that opened was never competitively evaluated, and two years have cost the park system $291,777.