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- Bricktown Neighbors Get a Say: Avondale's Belmont & Kimball Corridor Is Getting a Makeover — and the City Wants Your Input
One of Avondale's busiest and most complex intersections is getting a long look — and residents are being invited to help shape its future.
- African Festival of the Arts Returns to Washington Park This Weekend — Plus Your Complete Fall Kickoff Guide
Washington Park neighbors, September is arriving with a celebration worthy of the season. This weekend, the neighborhood's iconic green spac
- A Vacant Industrial Shell on Morgan Street Is About to Become Fulton Market's Newest Mixed-Use Address
Near West Side neighbors, Fulton Market's transformation just keeps writing new chapters — and the latest one involves a long-vacant industr
- Fresh Picks & Fall Vibes: The Portage Park Farmers Market Returns This Sunday — and There's a Costume Drive Coming Too
Summer isn't done with Portage Park just yet. This Sunday, September 6, the Portage Park Farmers Market is back for one of its final dates o
- Boka Restaurant Group Opens The Ives in River North's Storied Athletic Association Building
Near North neighbors, the summer of new openings in River North isn't done delivering surprises — and the latest one arrives in one of the n
- A 111-Year-Old Rogers Park Firehouse Is Getting New Life as a Café and Event Space
Rogers Park neighbors, one of the neighborhood's most storied old buildings is finally coming back to life — and it's going to smell like co
- 38 New Apartments Proposed for Logan Square's Vacant Lot and Old Industrial Building — Plus a Youth Football Team Just Got Its First Real Field
Logan Square's growth story is picking up fresh chapters this week, with a new housing proposal targeting long-underused land in the neighbo
- Art, Industry & a New Pour: Ravenswood's ArtWalk Returns for Year 24 and KOVAL Raises a Can
Ravenswood is heading into September with two distinctly local reasons to celebrate — and both speak directly to the creative, entrepreneuri
- Records, Roasts & a Second Chance: Turn Back Time Opens Across from Independence Park
Irving Park neighbors, a brand-new kind of neighborhood anchor just quietly opened its doors on Irving Park Road — and it's the kind of plac
- West Loop's Pipeline Keeps Flowing: A Grocery-Anchored Tower at Jackson Gets Its Caisson Permit, and a Kinzie Street Building Scores a Key Zoning Win
West Loop neighbors, the construction pipeline in your neighborhood just got two more meaningful pushes forward — and both happened in the s
- Milwaukee Avenue Goes Car-Free Today: 'Meet Me On Milwaukee' Returns for Its Second Summer Run
If you have plans this afternoon, you may want to reroute them — toward Milwaukee Avenue. Today, Sunday, August 31, marks the first of three
- A 129-Year-Old West Englewood Schoolhouse Is Becoming 50 Homes — And It Just Made Headlines
A shuttered West Englewood school that has stood for more than a century is finally getting a second life. The former Charles Warrington Ear
- Jazz, Love Letters & Front Porch Vibes: Black & Bronze Fest Brings Bronzeville's Soul Back to Armstrong Park
Summer sent itself out in style in Bronzeville this weekend. On Saturday, August 29, Armstrong Park at 4433 S. Saint Lawrence Avenue filled
- Roll the Dice, Cast On & Run Together: Hyde Park's Under-the-Radar Community Gems Worth Knowing Right Now
Hyde Park neighbors, sometimes the most nourishing things happening in your neighborhood aren't the marquee events — they're the recurring,
- Stunod's Pizzeria Is Coming to Taylor Street — and for Two Brothers, It's a Lifelong Dream Finally Coming True
University Village Little Italy is about to welcome a new neighbor, and this one arrives with deep roots, a great origin story, and serious
- The Loop Just Got a Landmark Bookstore: Barnes & Noble Opens Its Chicago Flagship on State and Randolph
Loop neighbors, a new chapter — quite literally — has begun on one of the neighborhood's most storied corners. Barnes & Noble has opened its
- Bubble Tea Is Coming to Uptown — and a 303-Unit Tower Just Hit a Major Milestone on the Lakefront
Uptown wrapped up August with two developments that signal just how broadly the neighborhood's transformation is reaching — from a long-empt
- Your Saturday Has a Plan: The Lincoln Lodge Brings Live Stand-Up to Palmer Square's Doorstep Tonight
Palmer Square neighbors, if you're looking for a reason to step out this Saturday evening, look no further than 2040 N. Milwaukee Ave. — bec
- Fall Is Coming to Humboldt Park: The Chicago Park District Opens Registration for a Full New Season of Programs at the Fieldhouse
Summer isn't over yet in Humboldt Park — but the neighborhood's most beloved public institution is already thinking ahead. The Chicago Park
- A Promise Kept: Black-Owned Grocery Store Coming to West Pullman, Ending a Two-Year Food Desert
West Pullman is getting its grocery store back — and this time, it will be Black-owned. In a announcement that rippled across the Far South