Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
The 25th annual Dan Gibbons Turkey Trot got Thanksgiving Day underway for participants today and raised money for the Chicago Anti-Hunger Federation.
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
We knew Eric Holder, soon to be the United States' first black attorney general, was from Elmhurst, Queens and graduated from Stuyvesant. Apparently, he also once owned a 1971 blue Plymouth Duster, which goes some way toward explaining his mustache. And now we learn he also plays a mean game of pickup basketball, which means president-elect Obama better watch out: “I’m not sure he’s ready for...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The NY Times looks at the life of Eric Holder, whom President-elect Obama announced as his choice for U.S. Attorney General today. Holder grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, went to high school at Stuyvesant High School (where he was one of the few black students and where he co-captained the basketball team), studied at Columbia for undergrad and law school, and clerked at the NAACP before joining...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
... emerged in November. Attorney general, he added, was "not on the radar."Growing up in East Elmhurst, Queens, Holder lived in two worlds. There was the neighborhood kid, a basketball addict who drew smiles from girls and once cut class to watch the Mets. Then there was the overachiever, a history scholar who buried himself in books and newspapers and was plucked from his local public elementary...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
A Hanover Park man has been charged with leaving the scene of a hit-and-run crash that left a man dead along the Eisenhower Expressway near west suburban Elmhurst, police said. Jose Lopez was on the right shoulder along the eastbound lanes of I-290 near St. Charles Road after his semi truck broke down when he was struck by a pick-up truck about 12:30 p.m., Illinois State Police Elgin District...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
A Queens man could be headed for the White House and the borough’s biggest cheerleader, who happens to be his longtime neighbor, could not be prouder. East Elmhurst’s Eric Holder is being vetted for the attorney general slot in the...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
... emerged in November. Attorney general, he added, was “not on the radar.”Growing up in East Elmhurst, Queens, Mr. Holder lived in two worlds. There was the neighborhood kid, a basketball addict who drew smiles from girls and once cut class to watch the Mets. Then there was the overachiever, a history scholar who buried himself in books and newspapers and was plucked from his local public...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
A motorist whose truck apparently broke down on Interstate Highway 290, just west of St. Charles Road near Elmhurst, was killed this afternoon after he was hit by a truck as he was tending to his vehicle. The unidentified man was heading east when around 12:30 p.m. he pulled over, got out of the truck and was struck by a hit-and-run driver. A man is being questioned by police but has not been...
Homesick Texan (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
I spend a lot of my spare time exploring the outer reaches of New York City in search of authentic and delicious Mexican food. Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time in Elmhurst, a Queens neighborhood right off the 7 train. Like most of the Mexican immigrants in New York City, the dominant Mexican population hails from the state of Puebla. This means you find lots of tingas , cemitas and moles...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Early shoppers pack stores to score bargains on Black FridayBY MATT LYSIAK, TRACEE HERBAUGH and CHRISTINA BOYLE DAILY NEWS WRITERS Friday, November 28th 2008, 8:31 PM Bates for News Amit Kewalramani, of St. Thomas, shops for shirts at Macy's Herald Square on Friday. Noonan for News Vanessa Roucant, 17, visiting from Chile, loads up with gifts at the Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst on Friday.Related...
