Rogers Park Residents Urge Police to Crack Down on Gang and Drug Houses
Everytime Luana McIntosh relocates to a new residence to get away from gangs in her Rogers Park neighborhood, she finds the same turf wars , the same issues of violence at her new home. “It’s still the same nonsense,” said McIntosh, who is 62. McIntosh is among the residents in this North Chicago neighborhood who […]
Chicago LGBTQ library set to open soon in new location in Rogers Park
In a move lasting nine months longer than anticipated and raising uncertainties, one of the Midwest’s largest LGBTQ libraries finally transitioned from Andersonville to Rogers Park on April 30. The Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, which holds collections of gay and lesbian history and hosts programs like theater groups and poetry readings, traded their West Granville […]
Chicago Latinos embrace first pope from Latin America
After the appointment of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Jesuit pope from Latin America, citizens of Chicago weigh in on what the appointment means to them.
Rogers Park To Heat It Up With Cook-off
The Glenwood Sunday Market will hold its fourth annual “Heat It Up!” chili cook-off in Rogers Park this Sunday, giving people a chance to warm up and escape from all of the snow. At least 21 different chefs, or teams, will participate in the competition by bringing their own unique chili to the Glenwood Bar, […]
Food not Bombs Highlights Contradictions of War, Hunger
Baked potatoes with apples, stuffed peppers with rice, vegetable stir-fry and fruit salad. This is the free fare that a Rogers Park anti-war group offers to passersby on a Sunday afternoon. It is available to anyone who is hungry. Food Not Bombs is a worldwide movement made up of local and international chapters that spreads […]
Theater Culture Expands, Rogers Park Offers Actors Opportunities
When 26-year-old actress Kate Black-Spence was given two years to pursue a career in theater by her husband, she knew she would have to catch a “big break” or eventually find a more reliable paying job. A year into her pursuit, Black-Spence finds she has gotten a fortunate amount of theatrical work in Chicago, specifically the Rogers […]
Check out the Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest in Rogers Park–It’s Free!
Looking for something to do today? The Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest in Rogers Park has music, art, shopping, and food, and it’s free! Today is the last day. The fest is along Glenwood Avenue at Morse Avenue (the red line can bring you right there). The fest runs from noon to 9 p.m. Here are […]
Safe at Last: For One Iraqi Refugee, Tragedy has a Silver Lining
Crimson curtains flow in the wind of the air conditioning unit—their color a gentle contrast against the stark white walls. In the kitchen, the spatter and sizzle of the fried chicken 35-year-old Sattar Naama is making can be heard. The warm, greasy smell wafts throughout the tiny, one-room Rogers Park apartment. It doesn’t matter that […]
Gardening Grants Available in Rogers Park
From The Rogers Park Garden Group – Rogers Park, Chicago comes this proposal that will warm any gardener’s heart during a chilly January. A proposal to “Adopt the Public Way” The Rogers Park Garden Group (RPGG) is delighted to make available a limited number of public gardening grants up to $1,000 for the improvement of […]
Want to Help Families Survive the Economy? Volunteer.
With debt, foreclosures, unemployment and heating costs on the rise, low-income families often find themselves falling behind. To help bring some relief during the upcoming tax season, the Center for Economic Progress is recruiting volunteers to help bring free tax and financial services to families who need them most.
Far North Side Residents Uneasy as Violent Crimes Increase in Their Neighborhoods
Two years ago, Marilou Kessler was holding a dinner party at her East Rogers Park house, when two of the couples invited were mugged upon arriving in the neighborhood en route to her home. A few years before that, Kessler’s son, then in his 20s, was also mugged. Kessler —who has lived in the area […]
Proposed City Budget Cuts Small Business Support
By Curtis Black, Newstips Editor, Community Media Workshop With neighborhood economic development groups objecting to a major reduction in city funding at a time of growing job loss, 22 aldermen have submitted a resolution ordering the Mayor’s Office of Budget and Management to restore the funds in the city’s proposed 2010 budget. The resolution is […]
Experiment in Democracy: 49th Ward Leads the Way in Participatory Budgeting
Community gardens. Buying the Leone Beach house. Security cameras on the “L” platforms. Those were just a few of the suggestions 49th Ward residents gave last week on how to spend next year’s aldermanic menu money during a community meeting held by Ald. Joe Moore (49th). In what Moore says will be the nation’s first […]
Rogers Park Residents Deal With a ‘Lot’ of Parking Troubles
Rogers Park resident Steve Straus would rather walk several blocks than pay $1 an hour to park in the lakefront lot at Loyola Park, next door to his house. “I would park three blocks away before I would pay any money for this frickin’ lot,” said Straus, a neighbor for 18 years. “It’s a damn […]
Charting the Future of Rogers Park? Neighborhood Group Tries to Reach Out
For many years Rogers Park has been known as one of Chicago’s most diverse neighborhoods, welcoming people from Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Though Rogers Park is widely loved for its diversity, the neighborhood faces a host of problems, including foreclosures, a lack of investment, high crime and also fears of […]
Eye-Opening Seminar Exposes North Side Gangbanging
By Lorraine Swanson, Editor, Lake Effect News In a packed auditorium at Swedish Covenant Hospital, a North Side audience snacked on chocolate Macadamia nut cookies donated by a local Costco and got a few lessons in gangbanging. Much of the information presented at last week’s community gang awareness seminar hosted by Cook County State’s Attorney […]
Rogers Parkers love to (car) share
June 30, 2009 – Maybe you’ve seen them in a parking lot near your house, zipping along a busy thoroughfare, or on display at a local street festival. It’s I-GO Car Sharing, and the Rogers Park community has been savvy on this non-profit’s purpose for years. “The Rogers Park community really reaches out to us […]
Community Group Aims to Educate Rogers Park on Foreclosures
Story by: Jon DePaolis April 22, 2009 – The foreclosure crisis has devastated neighborhoods all over Chicago, but as described at a community meeting convened by the Rogers Park Community Development Corporation (RPCDC) March 21, Rogers Park has been one of the hardest hit. It has also received relatively little attention since many of the […]
