It's been almost a year since Take Back Boystown took off, and all of us still have so much work to do to build a better community. We need to stand together, or we need to stop calling ourselves a community. »
I was thrilled to be interviewed on WBEZ/National Public Radio recently by Steven Edwards, host of “Afternoon Shift.” I shared the airwaves with Professor Steven Watts, Professor of History at University of Missouri and author of Mr. Playboy, Hugh H... »
By Molly MurrayThe West Town Chamber of Commerce, Ald. Proco Joe Moreno and the SSA29 tax district are looking for volunteers to help with a two-hour graffiti removal action effort. Meet at 1pm at the corner of Ashland and Chicago avenues on Saturday A... »
Visual source: Newseum Economic suicide seems to Europe's choice, writes Paul Krugman, who surely must get tired of having to repeat his message to the stopped-up ears across the pond and here at home: In a way, it doesn’t really matter how Spain got t... »
So many Chicagoans absolutely love to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. PAWS Chicago is giving pet lovers all around the opportunity to continue with the celebration all the while helping out homeless and in-need animals.PAWS is... »
Five years ago today we featured a video on the paradox of Bucktown elementary schools. The paradox or, more accurately, the anomaly? »
This year’s race for state senate in the 5th District has received much more attention than is usually given to a legislative seat on Chicago’s near West Side – due in no small part to the contentious tone the campaigns have taken in recent weeks, whic... »
Next Monday will mark two years since a violent baseball bat attack in the Bucktown neighborhood left a visiting graduate student permanently disabled. »
