CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS – LOGAN SQUARE WEST LOOP LINCOLN PARK OAK PARK
CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS – LOGAN SQUARE WEST LOOP LINCOLN PARK OAK PARK
LOGAN SQUARE
Chicago’s cycling community will gather for a memorial ride Wednesday night past intersections where fatal car-bike accidents happened.
Cyclists will gather at 6:45 p.m. in Daley Plaza. From there they will proceed on a 12-mile route through several North Side neighborhoods. Along the route are intersections such as Kedzie and Armitage Avenues in Logan Square where two cyclists have died in collisions with cars since last September.
This is the fourth Chicago Ride of Silence. A similar international memorial ride is held in hundreds of cities each May and is expected to draw its largest participation ever this evening. While previous rides attracted at most 50 riders organizers said the tragic start to this year’s cycling season has raised interest in the ride and its message.
"We’ve had a few tragedies especially in the past year and that has really called attention to the Chicago ride" said Elizabeth Adamczyk organizer of the Ride of Silence. "It’s meant to be a session to raise awareness share streets in a legal manner and really to honor those cyclists that should not have perished in the auto accidents."
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WEST LOOP
Oprah once again makes herself available to the people. Several months ago the Oprah store opened across from Harpo Studios in the West Loop.
It’s a routine that plays itself out nearly 200 times a TV season: the stream of mostly women and a few gentlemen who attend the show when crossing Washington Avenue and Carpenter Street afterward so excited having just witnessed The Show. They’re ready to bring home a Oprah memory even if she comes in water bottle form. Click here to learn more.
LINCOLN PARK
A couple of weeks after construction began on Children’s Memorial Hospital in Lincoln Park (estimated at $1 billion) hospital executives have reserved more space for growth near its future home in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood.
Children’s Memorial was said to have paid $18 million to secure a 99-year lease of a six-story office building owned by the Archdiocese of Chicago at 155 E. Superior St.
The office building is will be known as the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and located one block from the new facility at 225 E. Chicago Ave. The new Children’s is slated to open in 2012 and will sit just west of Northwestern Memorial’s new Prentice Women’s Hospital.
"This is an important part of our long-term strategic plan for the new facility" Children’s spokeswoman Julie Pesch said of the leased building. "In the short term we are evaluating the possibility of leasing the space to a third party." Click here for the entire story.
OAK PARK
Oak Park motorists should expect to pay more for street parking and village-owned garages and lots soon.
The higher rates are to cover costs for the village’s parking fund which now owes the general fund over $9 million.
"That’s red ink for one year" Village Manager Tom Barwin told the Village Board.
In the past the shortage of funds had been covered with loans from the village’s general operating fund. Now the general fund is owed $9 million by the parking fund and this practice needs to stop Barwin said. Click here for complete details.
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