Community

Covers information for the Chicago neighborhoods from Fullerton and Chicago Avenue between the River and California Ave. They include: Bucktown, East Village, Noble Square, Ukrainian Village, West Town and Wicker Park.

Parks

Wicker Park Dog Park gets Spring cleaning and improvements

Date: 
05/11/2012
AHousleyFenc

Under gray skies and amid some on-and-off-again drizzle, a group of Wicker Park Dog Park users gathered to improve the environment for doggie families and the neighborhood.

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History

A time to honor those who gave their lives for our Nation --Memorial Day

Date: 
05/30/2011
MoinaMichaelStamp

Like so many traditions, the original start of Memorial Day celebrations is not known.

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Libraries

Bucktown-Wicker Park Library

Date: 
02/23/2010
BktwnWPLibrary

The Bucktown-Wicker Park Library located at 1701 N. Milwaukee Ave. 312.744.6022 opened on July 10, 2006, replacing both the West Town and Damen Avenue Branch libraries.  It is a two-story, 15,500 square feet full service branch that houses over $400,000 worth of books and materials.

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Education Issues

Raise Your Hand Coalition: Extended school day

Date: 
10/07/2011
RYH1

The Raise Your Hand Coalition (RYH), an education advocacy group representing thousands of parents throughout Chicago and Illinois hosted a meeting on Tues., Sept.27 at Coonley School to discuss the issue of extending the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) school day.

School News

Hogwarts or Pritzker?

Date: 
04/27/2012
BurningBook

Flames erupt from the book each time it's opened. A smoke cloud rises from a can, hanging around  before disappearing. Pennies float on water. This must certainly be a wizardly school…Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, perhaps.

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Resident News

Graffiti clean up in Wicker Park's 1st Ward Saturday

Date: 
05/04/2012
 PubBnch

"Graffiti action days make a significant and tangible impact on the appearance of a targeted commercial corridor or neighborhood," says architect Adam Natensohn. May 5 will be the second cleanup with 1st Ward Alderman Proco Joe Moreno's volunteers. Volunteers are to meet at Damen and Wicker Park Ave. at the Wicker Park entrance at noon for a two hour span of cleaning.

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Is Steve Jensen a masked man on a white horse?

Date: 
05/01/2012
SteveJensenDrvng

Steve Jensen doesn't ride a white horse. He drives a black SUV. He doesn't wear a mask. He wears a baseball cap. But, like the Lone Ranger, Steve Jensen cares about his "territory" and the right of people to live in a clean and safe environment.

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People Profiles

Brit ignores British flight of 1776: chooses own experience as a Chicagoan

Date: 
07/04/2011
RichardTilley

One hundred and eighty-six years after the Brits fled America, British born and bred Richard M. Tilley was offered a job in Chicago.

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Alums

Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer was "born" close by

Date: 
12/24/2010
Rudoph

Montgomery Ward company, in 1939, gave a thirty-four year old copywriter named Robert  L. May, the task of creating a Christmas story for a promotional booklet to be given out to shoppers.

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