East Village Chicago
Neighborhood news curated by @rynk
By Stephen Rynkiewicz
- Kids own 1 in 5 suspended library accounts. To bring them back to Chicago libraries, outstanding debt is being wiped away.
- EVA members will take an advisory vote Monday on a change to a Chicago Avenue package goods license, and state Rep. Delia Ramirez will give an update on her work in Springfield.
- Bird picks up 250 of its scooters every night and redistributes them for the morning commute, general manager Robbie Zettler told EVA members Sept. 9. Yet with 10 companies in Chicago's June-to-Octobe …
- East Village Association was the first organization to address a project under the 2013 revised TOD ordinance. EVA President Neal McKnight summarized residents' concerns for the 1515-17 N. Haddon prop …
- The Polish Museum of America cordially invites you to the Opening of the new First Floor Gift Shop on Sunday, January 26, 2014, with an Open House, 1-4 pm, 984 N. Milwaukee Ave.
- Second-floor loft 2 blocks west of Milwaukee, Damen and North offers daily and monthly office rentals.
- After years of talk, plans to transform a 12-story vintage office building at 1600-26 N. Milwaukee Ave. into a luxury boutique hotel were announced in September. In November, developers from Convexity …
- A developer is seeking a zoning change that would allow him to build a four-story apartment building with retail storefronts just north of the Milwaukee, Damen and North avenues intersection in Wicker …
- Based on feedback, developer Mark Sutherland changed the plans and on Mon., Dec. 3, EVA members voted on the project at their meeting in the Happy Village, 1059 N. Wolcott Ave.
- We are super excited about the new pocket park design you all voted on– headed to Snowberry by this summer, 2014.
- News that a Wisconsin-based supermarket chain would be acquiring a Ukrainian Village Dominick's and turning it into a Mariano's Fresh Market was met with excitement by shoppers and uncertainty by empl …
- Roundy's, Inc., owners of the food store chain Mariano's, announced Mon., Dec. 2, that they are acquiring 11 Dominick's stores from Safeway, Inc. Among them is the 2021 W. Chicago Ave. store in Ukrain …
- After a community group wanted to see more three-bedroom apartments to give options to families renting in the neighborhood, a developer has cut the planned number of studio apartments by half.
- Halloween Party at Commercial Park – October 26th 2:00 – 3:15 P.M.
- The new Central Warrants Unit will have an open house Oct. 9, repurposing the former 13th District police station.
- The court upheld the city's standards but did not rule on how they were applied. That's back in the trial court.
- A spokesman for Ald. Scott Waguespack is the only source cited. The Coyote building would be renovated as an 80- to 90-room hotel and restaurant.
- Emergency repairs are forcing a two-week shutdown of the Grand Avenue bridge over the Chicago River.
