Posts belonging to Category Chicago neighborhoods
Posted by Sally on November 5, 2009
More to come…..
Better Government Association
Nonprofit
$60,000
To train volunteer “reporter monitors” to report on government meetings downtown and in Chicago’s neighborhoods for a new “Good Government Virtual Town Hall” Web site.
The Community News Matters program was spurred by a lead grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Community Information Challenge and is jointly [...]
Categories: Chicago Journalism Townhall, Chicago Newsroom of the Future, Chicago neighborhoods, L3C, Newspapers, future of journalism, newsrooms |
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Posted by Sally on November 24, 2008
The New York Times had a story today about the loan sharks that are trolling the ranks of folks seeking relief from resetting mortgage interest rates. Don’t take the bait!
Not if you hear it on the radio, read it in a newspaper ad or see it dancing across a web page.
Instead, call the [...]
Categories: Chicago neighborhoods, Credit crunch, Housing bubble, Protecting homebuyers, Subprime Mortgages |
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Posted by sally on July 27, 2007
By Sally Duros
For me, leading indicators of whether I want to live in a neighborhood include a contradictory mix of the existence of vintage hot dog stands, a cafe, the numbers of corner taverns with Old Style signs — did I mention a cafe? — the services of an affordable cobbler, and a good shoe [...]
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Posted by sally on July 27, 2007
We’ll be hearing a lot more about “gentrification” in the next year or so as the full impact of the “Manhattanization” of Chicago is felt by property taxpayers in Chicago proper. But what is gentrification really? How does a neighborhood learn from other neighborhoods that have experienced gentrification?
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Posted by sally on June 1, 2007
By Sally Duros
It’s a cool spring evening, and four bloggers and I are sitting
outside at the Cafe Ennui in East Rogers Park, huddled against the
cold air that slices off the lake and cuts up the block to Sheridan
Road where it lands squarely between our shoulder blades.
It’s getting dark, and it is definitely getting cold, but [...]
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Posted by sally on February 9, 2007
By Sally Duros
My friend Sue is mad as hell and she won’t take it anymore!
But in truth there’s nothing she can do.
“When the house next door was sold,” Sue says, “it was on a 50-foot lot, and the developer subdivided it.” She says the backs and fronts of the two large houses that stand there [...]
Categories: Chicago Aldermen, Chicago neighborhoods |
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Posted by sally on February 9, 2007
Headline:Let’s give aldermen a taste of what they dish out
By Sally Duros
My friend Sue is mad as hell and she won’t take it anymore!
But in truth there’s nothing she can do.
“When the house next door was sold,” Sue says, “it was on a 50-foot lot, and the developer subdivided it.” She says the backs and [...]
Categories: Chicago neighborhoods, Politics |
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Posted by sally on December 22, 2006
Coming Soon : It’s a Wonderful Ward
By Sally Duros
This season’s favorite movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” combines
real estate with holiday warm fuzzies, providing a maximum optical
view of the love affair our culture has with homeownership. The
film pits evil banker Potter against do-gooder building-and-loan
president George Bailey, but it leaves out the one obvious player
– the politician, [...]
Categories: Chicago Real Estate Market, Chicago neighborhoods, Politics |
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