Happy Halloween!

Halloween Open House

HALLOWEEN OPEN HOUSE FOR PARISH AND NEIGHBORHOOD CHILDREN WHEN: Sunday, October 31st (3:00PM – 7:00PM) WHERE: The Episcopal Church of the Atonement – 5749 N. Kenmore(773)271-2727 STOP BY FOR A HOT DOG AND CANDY WHILE YOU ARE TRICK OR TREATING!

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Friends of West Edgewater Park in Tribune

(photo from the Chicago Tribune) The Friends of West Edgewater Park’s crusade to convert the former site of the Edgewater Medical Center located at 5700 N Ashland into a park was featured in this article in the Chicago Tribune: Park advocates want abandoned hospital site. Residents in the area are lobbying for at least...

Open House: Sivanada Yogo Vedanta Center

Take this opportunity to get to know the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center (1246 W Bryn Mawr), the oldest established Yoga center in Chicago. Our open house is designed to give newcomers to Yoga a practical, holistic, and easy-to-understand introduction to Yoga practice. The day’s schedule will be as follows: - 9:00am-10:00am: Introduction to Yoga....

Carnevil – children beware!

A few readers have commented on our Trick or Treat post that the Lakewood/Balmoral area is a great neighborhood for children to trick or treat. In addition, residents of the Glenwood Catalpa Condo Association were quick to invite area children to their condo building, which will be transformed into a haunted carnival titled: CARNEVIL....

Request graffiti removal online

Thanks to the Uptown Update blog for pointing this tip out, which will come in handy with the recent uptick of tagging in the area. You can now request the City of Chicago’s Graffiti Blasters graffiti removal online by visiting this page on the City of Chicago website. In addition, you can still call...

Free Paper Shredding

From North Side Federal Savings:We are hosting a free community shred event at North Side Federal Savings 5159 N Clark on Oct 30 from 8:30am to 12:30pm in our new parking. Questions? Call Sharon Schwieters or Julia during business hours at 773.561.7051

Phil Bernstein speaks at EBNA

48th Ward Aldermanic candidate Phil Bernstein spoke at last night’s EBNA block club meeting to both EBNA members and non-EBNA Edgewater residents alike about his campaign. Phil began the evening by outlining his qualifications for the role which include an education in economics (including an undergrad and graduate degree, along with PhD coursework in...

Trick or Treating in Edgewater???

Recently we posted about the trick or treating events at Loyola University (10/31) and the event organized by Cheetah Gym in Andersonville (10/30) with other businesses along Clark Street, but multiple readers have inquired if there is any traditional trick or treating in the neighborhood, or the city in general. From my personal experience,...

Mon Thai Cuisine

This may be old news to some, but we just learned that a new Thai joint has opened in the neighborhood. Mon Thai Cuisine has opened at 5701 N Clark, the space formerly occupied by neighborhood favorite En-Thai-Ce (which we mentioned in June was closing) in August. We’ve yet to experience Mon Thai Cuisine,...

UrbanDaddy features Acre in Andersonville

On the heels of Acre’s opening this month, UrbanDaddy provides this overview of the new restaurant and tap room. We passed by Acre over the weekend, and there appeared to be quite a crowd inside, and there were some people outside waiting for tables. We plan to try it out for ourselves pretty soon.

Coming soon: Double Apple Market

A reader writes:“Do you know what’s going on at the corner of Clark and Elmdale? The empty video store has a sign on it saying that something called the Double Apple Market is coming soon.” If anyone has any further info, let us know. Also, it may be a coincidence, but it appears there...

Rally to Restore Sanity

Got sanity? Inspired by John Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity, Chicagoans will join the “million moderate march” in Grant Park. The purpose of the Rally to Restore Sanity is to “Take it down a notch for America” and help inspire the majority of Americans—”the 70-80 percenters”—who don’t have extreme political views and who lack...

Poll results: Funny business

In our latest poll on the ECB, we asked readers “If the 48th Ward Alderman election were held today, who would you vote for?” The last time we checked, on Friday, the poll had just over 100 respondants with Harry Osterman holding a commanding lead with about 100 votes and about 10 votes for...