Englewood Whole Foods Delivers 'Awesome' News To Small Business Suppliers - Englewood - DNAinfo.com Chicago

Englewood Whole Foods Delivers 'Awesome' News To Small Business Suppliers - Englewood - DNAinfo.com Chicago

Developer Says He Would Sell if U. of C. Needs More Space for Obama Library

Developer Says He Would Sell if U. of C. Needs More Space for Obama Library



 

Barack Obama Presidential Library offers historic opportunity for South Side parks | UChicago News

Barack Obama Presidential Library offers historic opportunity for South Side parks | UChicago News

Pullman Community Center Ground Breaking

Our good friends over at DNAinfo Chicago was out at the ground breaking for the new Pullman Community Center in Pullman. The center with house ball fields and courts along with rooms for various other activities. Read more here.

New Rendering for Obama's Presidential Library and Museum

The Sun-Times just released a new rendering for McCaffery's proposed library and museum bid. The site is located on the south lakefront around 79th st. So far I have been very impressed with the released bids and cannot wait to see the others including Hawaii's and New York's. Story continues here.

Obama Presidential Library

Now that all interested parties have submitted their bids for consideration to be chosen as the site for the future Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum the real fun is set to begin. The image below from designboom.com appears to be rendering of the Bronzeville/HOK site’s proposal. I have to admit this is very exciting and cannot wait to see the other sites’ images. Read more here.

 

Thank You Maya

Maya Angelou 1928-2014
 
Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise

Dorchester Artist Housing Collaborative

Bring the arts to the Southside, take look at this.

One Step Closer for Vue53 Project

The Hyde Park development Vue53 appears to be one step closer to starting construction. DNAInfo Chicago is reporting that a Cook County judge has tossed out the lawsuit trying to prevent the project. Article continues here.

Hollywood East?

Take a look at what DNA Info Chicago is reporting about the city's film industry.

NEAR WEST SIDE — Cinespace Chicago, the 50-acre studio that has served as a major filming location for Chicago's burgeoning movie and TV scene, wants to open a huge Hollywood-style backlot that would be the first of its kind outside Los Angeles. Story continues here.