The construction of a new playground in Grand Crossing Park on Chicago’s South Side is the site of the first community building project in a decade, and no one could be happier about it than Friends of the Parks’ Director of neighborhood parks and community relations Maria Stone. “This project took about a year...
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Public housing, a term coined in the 1930’s, is home to millions of faceless people every year with untold stories. The National Public Housing Museum, due to open in the Fall of 2012 at 1322 W. Taylor Street, in the heart of Little Italy,  in Chicago, is the first cultural institution in the United...
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At a public meeting held Tuesday night in Lakeview, Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) helped developers and city planners unveil a revised edition of the Addison Park on Clark project summary that will go before the Chicago Plan Commission for approval within the next two months. If the plan is approved, it will cause the...
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When Elaine Mohamed took her son, Zachary Vanderslice, for his regularly scheduled check-up, doctors found high levels of lead in the then 9-month-old child’s system. Mohamed, who lives in a 1920s property in East Rogers Park, hadn’t noticed any unusual symptoms in Zachary, now 8. She soon learned, however, that her apartment was filled...
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City leaders’ dreams that the 2016 Olympics would come to Chicago ended in October, but their hopes for the economic development, job creation and neighborhood expansion the Games would have brought to the city are alive and well. On a snowy afternoon on Feb. 9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago’s Neighborhood Development Awards...
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Access Living, governed and staffed by people with disabilities, is Chicago’s only center for independent living that focuses on full equality, inclusion and empowerment of all people with disabilities. On Thursday, Feb. 11, Access Living will host a Historic Six-City Listening Tour organized by the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy...
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Local officials in Austin say if Chicago Public School leaders don’t create more high school seats in the West Side neighborhood, more youth will end up in the streets of Chicago’s toughest areas. But CPS officials say Austin residents will have to be content with their three Renaissance 2010 high schools. Austin High School,...
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In years past, U.S. Steel’s South Works plant in South Chicago gushed flame and created towering piles of slag as it forged the steel that built skyscrapers around Chicago and across the country. Nowadays, South Works is mostly empty, deserted land. But developers hope to turn it into a mixed-income development that they say...
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The Chicago Transit Authority voted last week to put a vacant, historically significant property in the Armitage-Halsted Landmark District at 939 W. Armitage Ave. back on the real estate market. The Queen Anne-style property in Lincoln Park, which is adjacent to the Armitage station’s east side, was partially demolished in 2006 as part of...
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The massive brick building at 931 S. Homan Ave. once housed a power plant to provide electricity and heat for the adjacent Sears & Roebuck headquarters. Now the building powers the minds of young people in Chicago. In September, Henry Ford Power House Charter High School opened its doors. Power House High is located...
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