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Congress Theater owner evicts Portage Theater tenants, legal struggle continues
For more than six months, The Congress Theater has been battling city authorities over claims of unsafe conditions. Now, the theater’s owner, Eddie Carranza, is involved in more litigation as he moves forward to evict the current operators of the Portage Theater. On Sept. 7, in the midst of the Deleterious Impact/Public Nuisance hearings over […]
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The Englewood community group Resident Association of Greater Englewood (R.A.G.E.) is seeking citizens looking to improve their community to come to their upcoming meeting next Tuesday and get involved in the betterment of Greater Englewood. The village meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 15 at Ogden Park, 6500 S. Racine Ave., from 6:30- to 8 pm, […]
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Many of our readers are reporters or people who are engaged in work in their community. The Society for Professional Journalists and Community Media Workshop announced an upcoming opportunity to get connected to sources and experts in the thorny but important area of youth violence in Chicago. Do we need a new approach to the […]
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WBEZ recently produced a multimedia story on the impact of low water levels in the Great Lakes as we end 2012 in a state of drought. The story focuses on some of Chicago’s favorite vacation areas around Green Bay and across the lake in Michigan. If you bike or walk along Chicago’s lakeshore, you can observe […]
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From behind the bar, Steve Badauskas looks at the front door and buzzes in another customer. At Halsted and 32nd streets, Bernice’s Tavern has been buzzing in patrons for years. According to Badauskas, the owner of Bernice’s, the buzzer went in because of the neighborhood’s violence and racial tensions in the late 1960s. Back then, […]
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Next month, noted blues musician, educator and scholar, Fernando Jones will present Blues Session at Buddy Guy’s Legends, 700 S. Wabash Ave. Blues Session is a three hour blues training camp for musicians between 11- and 14 years old, and will be capped off by a rare solo show by Jones. The Blues Session is […]
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