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Chicago’s Immigrants Are Being Targeted By ICE. Here’s What You Can Do To Help
From sharing information and shopping immigrant-owned businesses to donating to nonprofits, here are seven ways Chicagoans can help immigrant communities in the city. by Francia Garcia Hernandez January 28, 2025 BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO – Immigrant communities in Chicago are on edge amid the Trump administration’s broad immigration crackdown during his first week in office. When…
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Bonnie McGrath, journalist and attorney who always championed Chicago, dies at 73
By Adam Harrington Updated on: December 29, 2024 / CBS Chicago CHICAGO (CBS) — Bonnie McGrath—a Chicago journalist, attorney, and champion of the city’s arts, culture, and people—passed away last week. McGrath—a longtime resident of the South Loop—died Sunday, Dec. 22. She would have turned 74 on Dec. 25. A Chicago native, Benita Carol McGrath,…
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Aldermanic Forum
On Tuesday, December 3rd at Grace Place, a forum was presented and organized by One Community Near South and sponsored by South Loop Neighbors. The South Loop is split into five different wards. The purpose? The last ward boundries were redrawn was 2022. However, the South Loop, formerly the 2nd Ward, was carved up and…
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AMC Movie Theatres Coming To South Loop, Replacing Shuttered Showplace Icon Theater
The theater at Roosevelt Collection Shops will be one of the few movie theaters south of Downtown. A MacGuffins Bar is also in the works. by Jamie Nesbitt Golden November 15, 2024 BLOCK CLUB AMC Theatres will be moving into Roosevelt Collection Shops in the South Loop next month. Credit: Provided SOUTH LOOP — The…
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If You Block A Bike Lane Downtown, You’ll Now Get An Automatic Ticket Or Warning
Drivers blocking bike and bus lanes Downtown will start receiving warnings and tickets in the mail under the two-year Smart Streets pilot program. by Melody Mercado November 4, 2024 Block Club DOWNTOWN — A pilot program that automatically sends tickets to drivers blocking bike and bus lanes Downtown launched Monday — nearly two years after…
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Kasey’s Tavern Celebrates 50 Years
On October 19th, 2024, Kasey’s turned 50. Bill White purchased it in the mid-1980’s. A wonderful article in the October issue of Newcity (another stalwart of the neighborhood) traces the early beginnings of Kasey’s and how the neighborhood around the tavern has changed. Check out the article written by June Sawyers. Here is an excerpt.…
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Grant Park Framework Workshop, October 15th
How would you like to see the south end of Grant park developed? Neighborhood park, bathrooms, facility for park district programming, enhanced dog park, decking over of the railroad tracks, etc? The 2002 Grant Park Framework Plan noted pending residential growth in the South Loop and the need to develop part of the south end…
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Chicago Could Be One Of Few Big Cities Globally Without An Intercity Bus Station If Greyhound Closes
Greyhound’s lease on its Harrison Street terminal is set to end in October, and operators will likely have to vacate the site by Sept. 20. The city has yet to nail down a plan for where riders and buses will go when that happens. Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago by Quinn Myers August 28, 2024…
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Grant Park Framework Plan at Cliff Dwellers Club on July 24th.
Jim Wales and Lelsie Recht presented on behalf of the Grant Park Advisory Council. Part of the 2002 plan was preserving the Historic Core around Buckingham Fountain. Making baseball diamonds in Hutch Field. Decking over the railroad tracks southwest side of the park near Roosevelt Rd Some of the items for the next plan from…
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“Mr. Downtown” Dennis McClendon RIP
Hearing about the death of “Mr. Downtown”—Dennis McClendon—stirred up a small memory of city history that even his closest friends likely don’t know. I’d even forgotten it myself. Dennis designed one of the earliest Newcity logos, our second in fact. The first one was a particularly amateur, if somewhat ambitious, creation I’d made on one…