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Dog-gone! Pup makes daring escape from daycare and it’s all caught on film

Minnie, a seven-and-a-half-year-old black Labrador cross, was caught on camera leaving the PUPS Pet Club in River North, in the South Loop area of the city, on February 16

The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2025

Thieves take ATM after crashing into South Loop currency exchange

According to ABC 7, witnesses said the crash-and-grab theft happened as film crews for the TV show ‘Chicago Fire’ were setting up for a scene at a nearby restaurant.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 12, 2024

Chicago woman tells how she snagged a Starbucks Stanley ‘winter pink’ cup

Krystal P. lined up early outside the South Loop Target store to buy one of the limited-edition tumblers before they sold out.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 4, 2024

Chicago police union boss blasts mayor for calling teen looting a ‘trend’: ‘That means, do whatever the hell you want, apparently’

“Nobody is renaming anybody little mini-Al Capones. But they certainly, in many cases, had the same, terrorizing effect that Al Capone had 100 years ago,” John Catanzara said.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 4, 2023

Hundreds of migrants moved from temporary shelters, South Loop police station ahead of Lollapalooza

Chicago’s migrant crisis continues as the city struggles to place people coming to the city for refuge.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 2, 2023

‘They come to this country with a dream’: Woman teaches English to migrants on a Chicago basketball court

CHICAGO — There hasn’t been a single day since May that Samantha Oulavong is not thinking of the migrants who stay at the police station in her neighborhood in the South Loop. The children, she said, remind her of her younger self, when her parents made their way from Laos…

Chicago Tribune · Jul 19, 2023

South Loop Walgreens transforms into ‘test’ store with digital displays, hidden products

The newly renovated location largely relies on digital kiosks that let shoppers order items while an employee pulls the merchandise from behind a counter.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 3, 2023

Lyft driver charged with firing gun in South Loop movie theater in dispute with passenger

Babacar Mbengue, 35, of Oakland on the South Side, is charged with reckless discharge of a firearm, Chicago police said. No one was hurt.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 10, 2023

Gunfire closes South Loop movie theater, 2 in custody

No one was hurt when shots were fired during a fight Saturday night inside a movie theater at the Roosevelt Collection.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 9, 2023

Woman, 72, struck and killed by truck in South Loop

Police say a box truck turning north onto the 1100 block of South Wabash Avenue struck a woman in a crosswalk. She was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 21, 2023