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Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Apr 27, 2020
Pandemic pedestrian activity and COVID-19 cycling

Would an East Bay-style Slow Streets program be beneficial in Chicago during the coronavirus crisis? It depends on whom you ask.
- By Courtney Cobbs and John Greenfield
- Tags: On Transportation, Open streets, Slow Streets, Oakland, COVID-19, Pandemic, Coronavirus, Shawn Conlye, Josie Conley, South Shore, Lakefront Trail, Lori Lightfoot, CDOT, Active Transportation Alliance, The Untokening, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Christian Diaz, Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community, Derek Lau, Grace Chan McKibben, KLEO, Torrey Barrett, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, Jacky Grimshaw, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Elihu Blanks, Deloris Lucas

Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Feb 25, 2020
How to avoid being a livable streets jerk

Thoughtful transportation advocacy requires intersectionality and a willingness to listen.
- By John Greenfield
- Tags: On Transportation, transportation advocacy, Active Transportation Alliance, transit-oriented development, Vision Zero, Amara Enyia, Christian Diaz, Oboi Reed, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, gentrification, housing displacement, Logan Square, the 606, the

News & Politics, Politics Jan 28, 2019
Different planets

A tale of two endorsement sessions—the Tribune v. the Grassroots Collaborative
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, Chicago mayoral election, mayoral election 2019, Chicago Tribune editorial board, mayoral endorsements, mayoral endorsement session, mayoral forum, Grassroots Collaborative, community activists, mayoral candidates, Toni Preckwinkle, Lori Lightfoot, Amara Enyia, Susana Mendoza, La Shawn Davis, Willie Wilson, New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, #ReimagineChicago Mayoral Forum, #ReimagineChicago, Lincoln Yards, Rezko Field, the 78, Garry "Big Mac" McCarthy, Paul Vallas, Bill Daley, Gery Chico, gentrification, tax increment financing, TIF district, TIFs, Ashley Galvan Ramos, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Bruce Dold, John Kass, Chicago City Council, rubber-stamping

News & Politics, Feature Dec 18, 2018
Mayoral forum recap: all the answers, none of the bullshit

At back-to-back forums last week 11 candidates fielded questions and even provided some answers.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Politics, News, Chicago mayor, mayoral election, Toni Preckwinkle, Ja’mal Green, Lori Lightfoot, Amara Enyia, Garry McCarthy, Dorothy Brown, Paul Vallas, Gery Chico, Susana Mendoza, Willie Wilson, La Shawn Ford, Rahm Emanuel, political debate, candidate forum, elections, Chicago Housing Initiative, CHI, Jefferson Park, UIC Forum, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Association of Realtors, Ben Joravsky, Copernicus Center, One North Side, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Donald Trump, President Trump, Mayor Rahm, rent control, affordable housing, lead, People for Community Recovery, Access Living, 38th Ward Democrats, Patti Vasquez, Fraternal Order of Police, Kevin Graham, police accountability, police reform, Laquan McDonald, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, school closures, Affordable Requirements Ordinance, ARO, Altgeld Gardens, environmental justice, environmental racism, Real Estate Transfer Tax, public housing, Chicago Housing Authority, CHA, community benefits agreement, Obama Presidential Center, Obama Library, Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, aldermanic prerogative, pensions, Lincoln Yards, Sterling Bay, TIFs, Tax Increment Financing, development

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jan 26, 2017
In the face of Trump, Writers Resist

At Cole’s Bar last week, Speak Up/Warm Up hosted steadfast and resilient local authors.
- By John Wilmes
- Tags: Lit Feature, Writers Resist, Speak Up/Warm Up, Cole's, Britt Julious, Donald Trump, Curbside Splendor, Make: A Literary Magazine, Meekling Press, Red Rover, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Doro Boehme, Jami Nakamura Lin, Nathanael Lee Jones, Susan B. Anthony, Zoe Zolbrod, Juliet de Jesus Alejandre

News & Politics, Feature Jun 4, 2015
Is the Bloomingdale Trail a path to displacement?

Longtime residents of Humboldt Park, Logan Square, and other areas around the highly anticipated 606 project are organizing to make sure they're not priced out of their neighborhoods.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Feature, Bloomingdale Trail, The 606, High Line, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, property taxes, Logan Square, Humboldt Park, Avondale, Garfield Park, Delia Ramirez, real estate, Bucktown, Bob Safranski, Steve Marks, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Jennifer Velasquez, Joe Berrios, Geoff Smith, Latin United Community Housing Association, Juan Carlos Linares

News & Politics, Feature Jun 12, 2014
The fight to preserve a model public housing project

Lathrop Homes, on the western edge of Lincoln Park, has long been one of the Chicago Housing Authority's most diverse and successful properties. But today it's a shell of its former self.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Julia C. Lathrop Homes, Lathrop Homes, CHA, Chicago Housing Authority, public housing, Bucktown, Roscoe Village, Public Works Administration, New Deal, National Register of Historic Places, Miguel Suarez, development, immigrants, diversity, architecture, Lolita Gonzalez, Richard M. Daley, mixed-income communities, Lathrop Community Partners, redevelopment, LCP, Molly Metzger, Washington University, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, housing choice vouchers, Tiffney George, Near North High School, Cabrini-Green, Section 8 housing, North Lawndale, Boys and Girls Club, Titus Kerby, Lathrop Local Advisory Council, Anna Capps, Marshall Field's, Toni Dixon, Alcott College Prep, preservation, Chicago Housing Initiative, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, HUD, Dorothy Gautreaux, Gautreaux case, Altgeld Gardens, Chicago Urban League, West Side Federation, ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Schiff Hardin & Waite, Alexander Polikoff, discrimination, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, BPI, memoirs, books, neighborhoods, segregation, unemployment, Hal Baron, Len Rubinowitz, Northwestern University, Lawrence Vale, urban planning, urban design, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Mary Pattillo, John McDermott, LSNA, housing, land use, Robert Whitfield, Real Estate Acquisition Program, REAP

Blogs, Bleader Mar 25, 2014
Will CPS reverse itself on Ames Middle School?

By a margin of more than two to one, voters rejected Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to convert Ames Middle School into a marine academy—now the issue is whether the mayor will bow to the will of the people and order the Board of Education to reverse itself.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Education, News, Chicago Public Schools, Ames Middle School, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Alderman Robert Maldonado, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Triple H, Randy Orton, WrestleMania XXV, Stony Island Avenue, Bishop Brazier

Blogs, Bleader Feb 26, 2014
More transparency from Mayor Rahm and CPS

Mayor Rahm's FOIA practice in action—it takes CPS eight months to turn over little more than a blank piece of paper.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Education, Politics, News, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Joanna Brown, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Ames Middle School, Marine Academy, Alderman Robert Maldonado, Chicago Public Schools, Freedom of Information Act, Glenn Krell, Mick Dumke, Dan Mihalopoulos, Tim Novak, New Trier high school, Sun Times

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Feb 25, 2014
Mayor Emanuel sends the marines into Ames Middle School

Politicians move forward with their plan to convert the neighborhood school into a military academy.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Ames Middle School, military academies, schools, CPS, Chicago Public Schools, 26th Ward, Roberto Maldonado, Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times, Marine Math and Science Academy, Logan Square, parents, Richard M. Daley, Emma Segura, Local school councils, LSC, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Board of Education, David Vitale, Marine Leadership Academy at Ames, City Council, neighborhood schools, TIFs, tax increment financing, 1st Ward, Proco Joe Moreno, Eddie Reyes, William Delgado, Walter "Slim" Coleman, school closings

Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 2, 2013
The migration of the hipster

A Chicago history, 1898-present
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, hipsters, Flat Iron Building, Bridgeport, neighborhoods, New York Times, next Seattle, Richard Lloyd, Jeff Huebner, history, Real World, Ed Marszewski, Lumpen Times, Liz Phair, Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Handley, Joe Judd, Shane Bugbee, Elliot Dicks, gentrification, Clem Jaskot Jr., Phyllis' Musical Inn, bars, Gold Star Bar, Nelson Algren, Wicker Park, HotHouse, Double Door, Pontiac, Subterranean, Flat Iron Building, Myopic Books, Quimby's Bookstore, Autonomous Zone Infoshop, Buys Bee, Earwax Cafe, Urbus Orbis, commercialization, bohemia, brohemia, Sarah Crawford, Fine Arts Building, artists' colonies, coffeehouses, nightclubs, The Little Room, South Loop, artists, tea, Auditorium Hotel, Ralph Clarkson, Henry Blake Fuller, George Ade, Hamlin Garland, Lorado Taft, Jane Addams, Bertha Palmer, Jackson Park, Hyde Park, Midway Studios, Floyd Dell, Evening Post, Evening Post's Friday Literary Review, Paul Durica, Margery Currey, salons, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Margaret Anderson, The Little Review, Richard Lloyd, Chicago winters, Towertown, Bauhaus, Bauhaus School, River North, Maxwell Bodenheim, them restaurants, Gold Coast House of Correction, Big John's Coal Scuttle, Jake Loeb, Thomas Dyja, Tree Studios, Prohibition, tearooms, Green Mask, Ballyhoo Cafe, drag shows, Dil Pickle Club, Washington Square Park, Newberry Library, Bughouse Square, Jack Jones, Tooker Place, Mae West, Ben Reitman, Chicago Tribune, alcohol, Charles Collins, Mitchell Dawson, Harriet Monroe, Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Edgar Lee Masters, Joseph Weil, Bill Haywood, Jack Johnson, Chicago Literary Times, Michigan Avenue Bridge, douchebags, yuppies, bros, Alfreda Gordon, Chicago Sunday Times, development, beatniks, hippies, New Yorker, Emily Hahn, Slim Brundage, College of Complexes, Piper's Alley, Lincoln Restaurant, Maury's, Cholly Wendorf, Bill Smith, Steve Goodman, John Prine, Bonnie Koloc, Hairy Who, Will Leonard, University of Chicago, Old Town School of Folk Music, Bill Savage, Northwestern University, Frank Ryan, Norman Mailer, Dee Paira, Gavin Morrison, Rainbo Club, Logan Square, Jason Hammel, Logan Beach, Lula Cafe, Amalea Tshilds, Joe Bryl, Longman & Eagle, Reno, Bang Bang Pie, Parsons Chicken & Fish, Cozy Corner, Cole's Bar, Helen's, Two-Way Lounge, Whirlaway Lounge, The Whistler, Scofflaw, Weegee's Lounge, Logan Square Farmers Market, Dill Pickle Co-Op, Cafe Mustache, New Wave Coffee, Abraham Conlon, Adrienne Lo, Matthias Merges, Jared Wentworth, Paul McGee, Maria Jaimes, Fireside Bowl, The Mutiny, John McDermott, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Latinos, buying property, Bridgeport, Pilsen, Jason Vincent, Bruce Finkelman, Thalia Hall, Modern Cooperative, furniture stores, Nightwood, Co-Prosperity Sphere, public transportation, mass transit, Version Fest, Mash-Tun Festival

Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2010
Free Help Applying for U.S. Citizenship

The Logan Square Neighborhood Association is offering free assistance to people applying for U.S. citizenship.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Free Shit, Other Stuff, Apropos of Nothing, Swag, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, citizenship, citizenship application, Foreman High School, Monica Garreton Chavez, government, immigration, immigrants, north side

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Apr 1, 2010
Strategic Subsidies

The city ponies up $11 million to bring artists to Logan Square/Avondale.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: The Arts, City Council, Morris B. Sachs building, flatiron building, Milwaukee, Diversey, and Kimball, Hairpin Lofts, Brinshore Development, Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center, TIF, Fullerton/Milwaukee TIF district, TIF districts, tax-increment financing, Logan Square, Avondale, Logan Square Community Arts Center, Department of Community Development, 2800-2812 N. Milwaukee, 3416 W. Diversey, Logan Square Performing Arts District, Hump building, Sol Goldberg, Hump Hair Pin Manufacturing Company, Alfred Alschuler, Leichenko and Esser, Narragansett Apartments, Morris B. Sachs, Gary Poter, Rezmar, Rey Colon, 35th Ward, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, LSNA, Susan Yanun, Richard Sciortino, David Brint, Legends South, Robert Taylor Homes, Dawn Marie Galtieri, Voice of the City, Logan Square Chamber of Arts

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Pandemic pedestrian activity and COVID-19 cycling

Would an East Bay-style Slow Streets program be beneficial in Chicago during the coronavirus crisis? It depends on whom you ask.

How to avoid being a livable streets jerk

Thoughtful transportation advocacy requires intersectionality and a willingness to listen.

Different planets

A tale of two endorsement sessions—the Tribune v. the Grassroots Collaborative

Mayoral forum recap: all the answers, none of the bullshit

At back-to-back forums last week 11 candidates fielded questions and even provided some answers.

In the face of Trump, Writers Resist

At Cole’s Bar last week, Speak Up/Warm Up hosted steadfast and resilient local authors.

Is the Bloomingdale Trail a path to displacement?

Longtime residents of Humboldt Park, Logan Square, and other areas around the highly anticipated 606 project are organizing to make sure they're not priced out of their neighborhoods.

The fight to preserve a model public housing project

Lathrop Homes, on the western edge of Lincoln Park, has long been one of the Chicago Housing Authority's most diverse and successful properties. But today it's a shell of its former self.

Will CPS reverse itself on Ames Middle School?

By a margin of more than two to one, voters rejected Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to convert Ames Middle School into a marine academy—now the issue is whether the mayor will bow to the will of the people and order the Board of Education to reverse itself.

More transparency from Mayor Rahm and CPS

Mayor Rahm's FOIA practice in action—it takes CPS eight months to turn over little more than a blank piece of paper.

Mayor Emanuel sends the marines into Ames Middle School

Politicians move forward with their plan to convert the neighborhood school into a military academy.

The migration of the hipster

A Chicago history, 1898-present

Free Help Applying for U.S. Citizenship

The Logan Square Neighborhood Association is offering free assistance to people applying for U.S. citizenship.

Strategic Subsidies

The city ponies up $11 million to bring artists to Logan Square/Avondale.

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Would an East Bay-style Slow Streets program be beneficial in Chicago during the coronavirus crisis? It depends on whom you ask.

Thoughtful transportation advocacy requires intersectionality and a willingness to listen.

A tale of two endorsement sessions—the Tribune v. the Grassroots Collaborative

At back-to-back forums last week 11 candidates fielded questions and even provided some answers.

At Cole’s Bar last week, Speak Up/Warm Up hosted steadfast and resilient local authors.

Longtime residents of Humboldt Park, Logan Square, and other areas around the highly anticipated 606 project are organizing to make sure they're not priced out of their neighborhoods.

Lathrop Homes, on the western edge of Lincoln Park, has long been one of the Chicago Housing Authority's most diverse and successful properties. But today it's a shell of its former self.

By a margin of more than two to one, voters rejected Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to convert Ames Middle School into a marine academy—now the issue is whether the mayor will bow to the will of the people and order the Board of Education to reverse itself.

Mayor Rahm's FOIA practice in action—it takes CPS eight months to turn over little more than a blank piece of paper.

Politicians move forward with their plan to convert the neighborhood school into a military academy.

A Chicago history, 1898-present

The Logan Square Neighborhood Association is offering free assistance to people applying for U.S. citizenship.

The city ponies up $11 million to bring artists to Logan Square/Avondale.

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