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Party Like a Viking This Weekend In Andersonville
Andersonville Businesses Team Up To Offer Election Day Specials
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Program To Honor International Transgender Day Tomorrow In Andersonville
November 19, 2018Tomorrow, November 20 is International Transgender Day of Remembrance. To help honor the special day, an Andersonville group will be holding a very special event to mark the occasion. Chicago Therapy Collective’s Trans-Inclusive Andersonville! is a group dedicated to making Andersonville the most explicitly trans-inclusive neighborhood in Chicago and to define what it means. They […]
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Party Like a Viking This Weekend In Andersonville
November 14, 2018St. Morten’s Goose Day? Many may not know about it, but it is how the idea for the Andersonville Viking Pub Crawl was borne. St. Morten’s Goose Day is the traditional Swedish Holiday where geese are prepared for slaughter and consumption. But in Andersonville, geese can relax knowing we celebrate it with good spirits and good […]
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Edgewater 7-Eleven Employee Protects Woman After She Was Brutally Attacked
November 13, 2018A woman who was walking near Bryn Mawr was brutally attacked during a robbery. However, an area convenience store employee may have saved her from further injury after she fled the scene of the attack. The incident took place around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4 on the 5500 block of N. Kenmore. According to […]
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New Andersonville Store Blends The Love Of Music With Vintage Treasures
November 9, 2018A new store on the Andersonville strip is the culmination of a life-long love of music and vintage treasures, according to the store’s owner Paul Ruffino. The new space will provide another vintage option for shoppers on Clark Street. Rattleback Records at 5405 N. Clark, opened their doors on November 1 with an official ribbon cutting […]
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Rendering Released Of Swedish Bakery Building Transformation, To Become ‘The Clark’
November 7, 2018After closing its doors almost two years ago, the Swedish Bakery at 5348 N. Clark has left a hole in many resident’s hearts and a valuable piece of property sitting vacant on Clark Street. But now the owner is completing the final touches to the building which will see a major transformation. It was announced earlier […]
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Two Men Sue Off-Duty Officer After Being Beaten Outside Andersonville Gay Bar
November 6, 2018What started as a dispute inside an Andersonville Gay bar, turned into a horrible fight outside the club that left two men allegedly beaten by an off-duty Chicago Police sergeant with a spotty past on the force. Now the men are suing and accusing the police Department of protecting the suspect, Sgt. Eric Elkins, with its […]
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Andersonville Businesses Team Up To Offer Election Day Specials
November 5, 2018With the strongest voting for a midterm election expected on Tuesday, Trump may be feeling a little ‘blue’ on Wednesday. A team of Andersonville businesses however, want you to be excited about your voting rights and are organizing special freebies and discounts to help energize that spirit. Milk Handmade (5137 N Clark St) owner Hallie Borden […]
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After Last Weekend’s Horrific Shooting, Local Jewish Congregation To Hold Public Prayer Vigil
October 30, 2018This past weekend brought much sadness as the country experienced one of the most horrible mass shootings in the country at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh which claimed the lives of 11 Jewish people. In response to the incident, a local Edgewater congregation will hold a public prayer vigil to remember the lives […]
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It’s Halloween Time Edgewater and Andersonville!
October 26, 2018It’s Halloween! Get in the spirit with a multitude of ghoulish events in Edgewater and Andersonville. Back again this year on Saturday, kids can break out their favorite costumes as the 48th Ward hosts its growing Halloween Parade at 10 a.m. and Andersonville puts on their annual trick or treating along Clark Street from 12 […]
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Man Charged With Fatally Running Over Woman In Front Of Edgewater Beach Apartments
October 25, 2018A 27-year-old man from Kingston, Jamaica who now lives in Edgewater and is studying in the US has been charged in an accident that killed a senior citizen as she crossed a driveway in front of the Edgewater Beach Apartments. Rayon Allen is charged with reckless homicide after an accident on September 24 killed 93-year-old Lorraine Campion who […]
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Studio Behind ‘Matrix’ Series Are Selling Their West Andersonville Offices
October 24, 2018The film production and special effects offices of the company behind big name movies such as The Matrix series, V for Vendetta and Jupiter Ascending are selling their West Andersonville offices for just under $5 million. The 21,500-square-foot space comes complete with several green features such as solar panels, an advanced water reuse and filtration system […]
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5 Men and 1 Juvenile Charged In Edgewater Carjacking, Attempted Earlier Carjack As Well
October 22, 2018The group of five men and one juvenile who carjacked an off-duty Chicago Police detective early last Thursday morning have been officially charged. Four of them are facing two felonies each for the crime. Felony charged with vehicular hijacking involving a firearm and attempted vehicular hijacking involving a firearm are 19-year-old Jamaal Ashshaheed of the […]
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Five Teens Carjack Off-Duty Officer In Edgewater
October 18, 2018A group of five teenagers carjacked an off-duty police officer at gunpoint yesterday and fled in her vehicle. The teens were later apprehended on the south side after a brief chase. The incident happened just after Midnight on Thursday when the 47-year-old off-duty officer was parking her Lexus SUV on the 5800 block of N. […]
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Teen Female Victim Of Attempted Robbery In Andersonville, Suspect Tells Police He Would Have Raped Her
October 17, 2018A 17-year-old teen female was the victim of an attempted robbery in Andersonville on Tuesday, October 2. What is more alarming is what he told police once in custody. The female was walking on the 1400 block of W. Foster around 10 p.m. when the suspect, 36-year-old Daniel Espejo, approached her asking for the time. He […]
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Two People In Critical Condition After Edgewater Crash Collapses Balconies
October 16, 2018A serious car crash this morning in the Edgewater neighborhood sent two people to the hospital in serious-critical condition. That accident caused one of the vehicles to slam into a building which caused the collapse of its balconies. the incident happened just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning on the 56oo block of N. Broadway near […]
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