Residential
Spaces with Eva Bergant, April 24th, 2012
By chicago-pipeline at April 25, 2012 | 2:14 pm | 0 Comment
The buzz is back. Real estate offices are busier. Brokers are working harder and writing more offers. Sellers are pricing realistically and buyers, as a result, are making decisions. Lenders are offering great rates and assistance in finding the right financing. People are moving to new homes. Here’s the closings in Wicker Park and Bucktown for the past week… Sold more...
Articles , Bucktown , Featured , Neighborhoods , Residential , Updates , Wicker Park
Now Open: M.J.’s Cafe
By chicago-pipeline at April 24, 2012 | 10:01 pm | 0 Comment
After 28 years of working at a half dozen Chicago-land grocery store chains, M.J. reported that he was ready to finally work for himself. His sister, Chiquita, a long time employee of a well-established bagel chain, decided that she too was ready for a change. The siblings added a cousin, Sherman, who most recently worked at a nationwide Seattle-based coffee chain, more...
Bucktown , Business , Featured , Logan Square , Neighborhoods , Residential , Ukrainian Village , Updates , Wicker Park
Damen Updates: The Hole Where Hot Chocolate Is/Was, Grass Fed LLC, Cesar’s Margaritas Pulls Out of Former Dairy Queen Space
By chicago-pipeline at April 23, 2012 | 8:33 pm | 5 Comments
We interrupt work on the next Celebrate! magazine (info here) to report that there appears to be a hole where Hot Chocolate (1747 N. Damen) is/was....? Inside the hole is a crane. Yesterday when we walked past Hot Chocolate, the place was packed. Anyone have the scoop on this? We're busy making ad mock-ups like this one. If you know what's up with Hot Chocolate, more...
Bucktown , Business , Featured , Neighborhoods , Residential , Updates , Wicker Park
Earth Weekend Images, Circa Now Open, and Sunday Events
By chicago-pipeline at April 22, 2012 | 10:19 am | 0 Comment
The Pipeline popped by two Bucktown Community Organization (BCO) Earth Day clean ups yesterday. End results: Trees mulched! Fields raked! Flowers planted! Bags of trash at the curb! Word on the street is that the work began before 9AM and ended around 2PM. Approx. 15 children and 10 adults made the Ehrler playground on Cortland look great. Over at Churchill there were a more...
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11 Earth Day Events in the Neighborhood
By chicago-pipeline at April 20, 2012 | 1:16 pm | 0 Comment
Tomorrow, Sat. April 21st, is Earth Day (well actually it's the day before Earth Day), so let's just call it Earth Weekend! No matter where you live, odds are good that there's a clean up or a party you can partake in to express your love of Planet Earth and meet like-minded neighbors to boot. Here's what's on our radar. If we missed your news, add it as a more...
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4th Annual Community Art Project Focuses on ‘Playthings’
By chicago-pipeline at April 19, 2012 | 6:55 pm | 0 Comment
By Kylie Snowaert (Note: color is pink but it comes out green when we upload images. We are past deadline, it will stay green for now). Friends of Pritzker School is excited to present the Fourth Annual Community Art Project: Playthings 2012 to showcase the immense talents of Wicker Park/Bucktown community plus the students and families of A.N. Pritzker School, a more...
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Dispatch from Beat 1434 CAPS Meeting
By chicago-pipeline at April 19, 2012 | 4:46 pm | 0 Comment
Last night's Beat 1432 CAPS meeting at the WPB Library, 1701 N. Milwaukee, attended by 16 people, was so uneventful that The Pipeline almost didn't report on it. However, if anyone's curious, CAPS facilitator Sandy Johnson received a certificate for her volunteer service and burglaries and prostitution are down. The only thing on the rise in Beat 1432 appears to be more...
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Coming Soon: Illumination, Photography by Kavan Geary at Jackson Junge Gallery
By chicago-pipeline at April 19, 2012 | 11:36 am | 0 Comment
Inspired by classical painting, where cleverly layered translucent glazes give the appearance of being lit from behind, photographer Kavan Geary's newest work utilizes nature as subject and light as tool. “The goal is not so much to create photographs, as to create colorful paintings using natural elements as the paint and light as the brush,” says Geary in a more...
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Letter from Rhys Pareja, Promoter for Friday the 13th Meek Mill Show at The Congress Theater
By chicago-pipeline at April 18, 2012 | 10:14 pm | 7 Comments
[Ed note: As previously reported, there was an altercation among two patrons at The Congress Theater, 2135 N. Milwaukee, this past Friday which resulted in a concert being disrupted by an alderman, police commander, a fire inspector, and over 20 police officers. No arrests were made. We shared a letter from the venue's owner, Eddie Carranza, about the events. Rhys more...
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Spaces with Eva Bergant, April 16th 2012 and Earth Day Clean Ups in Bucktown
By chicago-pipeline at April 18, 2012 | 7:55 pm | 0 Comment
Earth Day is this Saturday, April 21st. The Bucktown Community Organization, per its latest newsletter, is working at two parks on Saturday morning from 9AM to Noon. Please come over and help out. No experience needed! At the Churchill Park Garden (2007 W. Churchill) on the Damen facing side, we’ll be cleaning up and planting new day lilies.... If you have a shovel or more...
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