Edgewater Turns The Typical Garage Sale Into Something Awesome

No matter what the thermometer may say, it is spring in EdgeVille with an eye toward summer. This means warm days, farmers markets, festivals and, as it has been for the past 20 years, the Edgewater Neighborhood Garage Sale set to take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine, on Saturday, June 6....

Edgewater Will Link To Joliet After Two Mile Bike Trail Gap Is Completed

  More than a century has passed since famed city planner Daniel H. Burnham co-authored his 1909 Plan of Chicago to integrate a series of projects including highways, parks, railway systems and civic buildings. The goal was to grow the greater Chicago area. These days, efforts continue to connect a network of greenways and...

The Edgewater Lounge For Sale, Includes Building’s Resident Ghost

For $725,000, you can buy a restaurant, a two-bedroom apartment and a ghost, too. The Edgewater Lounge, 5600 N. Ashland Ave., is a pre-Prohibition era restaurant bar that is allegedly haunted by Mary, one of its former owners. According to a 2012 story in The Columbia Chronicle, the slightly mischievous ghost may have something...

Andersonville Turns 50! Event Showcases Its Success

In just under two months, Norcross and Scott, a retail shop and interior design studio located in what used to be a law and accounting office, has turned the word serene into more than just a feeling. It now encapsulates a physical space, located at 1476 W. Berwyn Ave., that’s open for business. “The...

To Kodiak and Back: a Story of a Spittoon

The Edgewater Historical Society was kind enough to invite me to their Spring Fundraiser. It included a silent auction ranging from options like breakfast with 48th Ward Ald. Harry Osterman to my favorite, a value pack of gift certificates to Gethsemane Garden Center and Father and Son Barber Shop. The item of the night, however,...

Edgewater’s Most Curious Places: 5801 N. Glenwood

Our next curious building at 5801 N. Glenwood (also known as 5755 N. Ridge) was suggested by Jeane Dufrense and Marko Zaric. I should start by saying that, contrary to popular opinion, this structure most likely wasn’t built as a theater, let alone one for Charlie Chaplin, as persistent rumors claim. While it’s true...

Go Edgewater Campaign To Promote Sustainable Travel Options

Jimmying up kickstands and dusting off sneakers, Edgewater is locking the four-door, tossing the keys and sprinting, with green feet, toward sustainable travel this summer. Or at least that’s what Go Edgewater — a City of Chicago federal grant program encouraging walking, biking and public transit — hopes to do this June through September in the Edgewater...

Crafters And Musicians Bring It To Andersonville This Saturday

The weather may not always feel like spring in EdgeVille these days, but you can find some sunshine and fun at a craft show to be located at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 1650 W. Foster, on Saturday, April 25 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event is known as Crafters and Musicians. Founder and organizer Alexandra Jamroz has...

Stop The Clot 5K Run/Walk Raises Blood Clot Awareness

Manu “Shaq” Ajamu Williams was a healthy 36-year-old with bulging biceps and an outsized personality when blood clots took his life last September. Now, his former fiancée is working to honor him through a 5K race that seeks to raise money for the National Blood Clot Alliance and to pay for his headstone. “Shaq...

New Sushi Restaurant Opens On Bryn Mawr

A new sushi restaurant owned and operated by two brothers has opened in Edgewater. It’s the third sushi restaurant that has opened in that location. Blowfish Contemporary Sushi Restaurant held its grand opening on March 23 at 1131 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. It has opened in the former location of restaurants Yokozuna and Shinobu, between...

Get Your Egg Hunt On! 48th Ward Spring Fling Saturday

Who doesn’t love a good egg hunt? The annual 48th Ward Spring Fling is sure to outdo last year’s merriment with a whole new round of fun this Saturday, April 4, 2015 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m.  The event will be held again this year at Senn Playlot at 5887 N. Ridge Ave. The Spring Fling started back...

Edgewater’s Tutu King : Halsey Onstage Costumer Extraordinaire 

Many of us love Edgewater for its diversity. It seems that one could find about anything in this area whether it is a fast food eatery or high end restaurant, a chain grocery store or specialty food shop, apartment living or a large new construction single family home. One of the establishments adding to our unique...

Cantina de la Granja : New Mexican Restaurant Gives Fresh Meaning to Locally Sourced Cuisine

Wrangling in farm fresh ingredients from across the Midwest, Andersonville’s up-and-coming Cantina de la Granja is on a mission to serve traditional Mexican dishes with a local, sizzling twist. Owned and operated by the owners of SoFo Tap and Crew Bar, the modern Mexican-style restaurant is slated to open its doors in the late...

Local Lions Club Celebrates 94th Year Of Service

Have you ever heard of a Lions Club? Not the kind of four legged roar that you would find at Lincoln Park or Brookfield Zoo but an international group of individuals committed to service. The Lions club is just that, an international organization with the motto, “We serve.” The first Lions Club was actually...

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