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Dinkel’s Bakery closing in Lakeview after 100 years

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2 years ago

April 6, 2022

CHICAGO (WLS) — Dinkel’s Bakery is closing on the finish of April after 100 years in enterprise within the metropolis’s Lakeview neighborhood.

The shop’s common supervisor confirmed the beloved North Aspect bakery will shut on April 30.

“I’ve at all times reveled in what it does to somebody once they stroll within the door right here,” stated Luke Carl, common supervisor. “The grins it places on their face to stroll in and scent the smells of the truffles or cookies or donuts.”

The bakery is a neighborhood establishment and go-to for generations of Chicago households. The bakery is legendary for its stollen and focuses on different candy and savory German baked items, together with bread. It additionally places out hundreds of paczki yearly.

“It is so heartbreaking as a result of it is such an establishment,” stated common buyer Annie Allred.

And it is heartbreak felt on either side of the counter. However with the constructing in want of repairs, altering gross sales fashions and declining income, the Dinkel household needed to make a tricky determination.

“It has not been a straightforward means of contemplating one thing like this,” Carl stated. “There’s quite a lot of historical past right here and lots of people’s lives are impacted.”

“At this time has been overwhelming partly as a result of I have been answering the telephone for hours now and folks simply name to inform me their tales,” stated Joan Elias, longtime worker.
Dinkel’s was opened by German immigrant Joseph Okay. Dinkel and his spouse Antonie in 1922. As their recognition grew, they expanded to the present Lincoln Avenue location in 1932. The enterprise has been handed down 4 generations to its present possession.

For Elias, forgetting this bakery and the folks she’s served is subsequent to not possible. Her thoughts is chock stuffed with birthdates and anniversaries. She took an order from a longtime buyer Tuesday she’s not more likely to overlook both.

“She was ordering her daughter’s birthday cake, her daughter’s birthday is in December. However she wished to ensure her daughter had another birthday cake from Dinkels,” she stated.

“The factor we have to take away from all of that is all of the fantastic recollections,” Carl stated. “It is at all times been a cheerful place, and even in his closing days it nonetheless might be, and the reminiscence might be completely happy.”

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2 women found dead in Englewood home after fire, Chicago fire officials say

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2 years ago

November 22, 2022

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2 women found dead in Englewood home after fire, Chicago fire officials say

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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 3:26AM

FILE photograph: View of the Chicago Hearth Division, the third largest municipal hearth division in america of America, within the Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2014.
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago hearth officers mentioned two ladies have been discovered lifeless in an Englewood house after a home hearth.

The fireplace broke out Tuesday night at a home within the 7200-block of South Wolcott, Chicago hearth officers mentioned.

The fireplace was struck out at about 9:10 p.m., CFD mentioned.

After the fireplace was out, firefighters discovered two grownup feminine victims lifeless within the wreckage.

It was not instantly clear if the ladies died within the hearth or earlier than the fireplace. No additional particulars have been launched.

The Chicago Hearth Division has not but commented on any potential causes for the fireplace or mentioned in the event that they consider it was suspicious.

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3 women united by Highland Park shooting now lobby for assault weapon ban

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2 years ago

November 22, 2022

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3 women united by Highland Park shooting now lobby for assault weapon ban

HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (WLS) — Three ladies and their households had been good strangers up till the second tragedy introduced them collectively within the aftermath of Highland Park’s July 4th parade.

As Thanksgiving approaches, they’re united in goal and in gratitude for probably the most primary of all issues: life.

“I believed I used to be going to die,” Highland Park capturing survivor Liz Turnipseed mentioned. “That I used to be going to put there and I used to be going to bleed out and I used to be going to die.”

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“I used to be on the parade with my three grownup kids, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old grand child,” mentioned Debra Baum, with the Highland Park Gun Violence Mission. “Our complete household may have been worn out.”

“July third I had 70 folks at my home and the following day our life bought flipped the other way up,” capturing survivor Lindsay Hartman mentioned. “So I simply know for me, I am attempting to take pleasure in it and never spend an excessive amount of time previously.”

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For Lindsay, not spending an excessive amount of time previously means internet hosting Thanksgiving for 30. Liz, who was one of many almost 50 folks injured that day, nonetheless wants a cane to get round, so she’ll be catering the meal and having her complete household fly in. Debra shall be coming along with the identical household she was with on July 4.

“There are numerous households in Highland Park that do not have folks with them this Thanksgiving due to what occurred,” Baum mentioned. “It is a very weighty realization.”

However there’s additionally gratitude for random issues and other people, like for the proper strangers who took in Liz’s 3-year-old daughter for a few hours after she was shot. And the neighbor she’d by no means met earlier than who lent her a step stool for her mattress.

Turning ache into goal is what unites these ladies now as they foyer for an assault weapons ban in Congress. As a result of whereas life for them won’t ever be the identical, it does transfer on.

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Biden to extend student loan repayment freeze as relief program is tied up in courts

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2 years ago

November 22, 2022

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Biden to extend student loan repayment freeze as relief program is tied up in courts

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 8:52PM

WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden administration is but once more extending the pause on federal scholar mortgage funds, a profit that started in March 2020 to assist individuals who have been struggling financially because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a supply conversant in the plan mentioned.

The Division of Training will announce it’s extending the freeze one other six months with the primary funds due two months after June 30, the supply mentioned, until a Supreme Courtroom resolution on the president’s scholar mortgage aid program comes first.

The administration had beforehand mentioned the latest extension could be the final, and funds have been scheduled to restart in January.

However the administration had additionally meant for its scholar mortgage forgiveness program to start canceling as much as $20,000 in debt for low- and middle-income debtors earlier than January. This system has but to be carried out because it faces a number of authorized challenges.

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