Observations and musings from a resident of Chicago's 21st ward.
Friday, December 20, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Monday, October 14, 2013
South Lake Shore Drive extension opening in next couple of weeks
This is pretty big news especially when one considers the future development planned for this area of the city. Please click the link to get more details. Full article.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Ice Rink And Gymnastics Center Slated for 115th and Western - Morgan Park - DNAinfo.com Chicago
Ice Rink And Gymnastics Center Slated for 115th and Western - Morgan Park - DNAinfo.com Chicago
MORGAN PARK — An indoor ice rink and gymnastics center is slated for a long-vacant lot at 115th Street and Western Avenue in Morgan Park.
Officials on Saturday are scheduled to officially unveil plans for the $11 million dual-use building. A combination of state, city and Chicago Park District funds will pay for construction, according to a source familiar with the project. Story continues at DNAinfo.
Monday, September 23, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Whole Foods Market to open Englewood store in food desert
What can you say? I actually like the idea. Please see more details for the plan development at 63rd and Halsted via www.suntimes.com.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Mariano's and Wal-Mart to Bronzeville?
Found below article over at Crain's Chicago
Two big retailers are honing in on properties for new stores in Bronzeville on the South Side.
Milwaukee-based Roundy's Supermarkets Inc. plans to open a Mariano's Fresh Market on land owned by the Chicago Housing Authority near 39th Street and Martin Luther King Drive, according to a person familiar with the project.
Less than a mile from that site, at 39th and State streets, Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. wants to open a supercenter, another source said.
The projects provide a vivid example of how retailers are scouring the market for development parcels with strong population densities, often in Chicago.
Two big retailers are honing in on properties for new stores in Bronzeville on the South Side.
Milwaukee-based Roundy's Supermarkets Inc. plans to open a Mariano's Fresh Market on land owned by the Chicago Housing Authority near 39th Street and Martin Luther King Drive, according to a person familiar with the project.
Less than a mile from that site, at 39th and State streets, Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. wants to open a supercenter, another source said.
The projects provide a vivid example of how retailers are scouring the market for development parcels with strong population densities, often in Chicago.
Gigabit Squared is looking to transform nine Chicago neighborhoods, and just keep growing from there.
Technology projects worth $150 million will transform nine South Side
neighborhoods by 2015 with a data center, a job training center and
ultra-high-speed Internet connections that will bring Chicago’s fastest
fiber and wireless broadband capacity to 100,000 residents and 11,000
schools, businesses, hospitals and clinics, the project’s leader says.Story continues at Chicago Grid.
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Bus rapid transit to ‘maximize potential’ of Ashland Avenue
I say do it!
http://www.wbez.org/news/bus-rapid-transit-%E2%80%98maximize-potential%E2%80%99-ashland-avenue-106738
Fact sheet from the CTA.
http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/brt/CTA_Ashland_BRT_Fact_sheet.pdf
http://www.wbez.org/news/bus-rapid-transit-%E2%80%98maximize-potential%E2%80%99-ashland-avenue-106738
Fact sheet from the CTA.
http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/brt/CTA_Ashland_BRT_Fact_sheet.pdf
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Mayor’s ‘strategic vision’ for seven neighborhoods
A “permanent farmer’s market” that
could rival Seattle’s Pike’s Market. The nation’s longest protected bike
lane. An Uptown Music District. A pedestrian bridge over Lake Shore
Drive at 35th Street. An elevated, boardwalk bike trail at the Drive’s
north end.
Those are just some of the ideas that
could become a reality, thanks to a $3 billion plan that shows Mayor
Rahm Emanuel is taking Daniel Burnham’s, “make no small plans” mantra
to heart. Article continues here.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
The British Are Coming!
At least the The British School appears to be coming to the South Loop. Read more over at our friends at chicago.curbed.com.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
A little late. http://www.iit.edu/news/iittoday/?p=5662
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) President John L. Anderson announced today that IIT is building a 100,000 square-foot Innovation Center at the university’s south side campus. The state-of-the art building will house workshops and media labs and offer students and faculty a centralized facility with a singular purpose of promoting the basic elements of innovation and transitioning new ideas into products and processes.
“The new Innovation Center promises to be an investment in both the education offered at IIT and the future of Chicago,” said Mayor Emanuel. “It will help unlock the potential of thousands of students while providing Chicago businesses with a pipeline of new products, processes and talented graduates to hire.”
The proposed five-story building overlooking the Dan Ryan Expressway will house IIT’s Idea Shop, Leadership Academy, Entrepreneurship Academy and Institute of Design, but it will be more than an academic building and serve to attract creative thinkers to Chicago.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) President John L. Anderson announced today that IIT is building a 100,000 square-foot Innovation Center at the university’s south side campus. The state-of-the art building will house workshops and media labs and offer students and faculty a centralized facility with a singular purpose of promoting the basic elements of innovation and transitioning new ideas into products and processes.
“The new Innovation Center promises to be an investment in both the education offered at IIT and the future of Chicago,” said Mayor Emanuel. “It will help unlock the potential of thousands of students while providing Chicago businesses with a pipeline of new products, processes and talented graduates to hire.”
The proposed five-story building overlooking the Dan Ryan Expressway will house IIT’s Idea Shop, Leadership Academy, Entrepreneurship Academy and Institute of Design, but it will be more than an academic building and serve to attract creative thinkers to Chicago.
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