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MAYFAIR /ALBANY PARK - Residents get an update on the plans for a sculpture garden on the river, October 11th. The Mayfair Civic Association led a meeting to discuss updates for a planned Albany Park sculpture garden, which will be designed as a tribute to the neighborhood's ethnic and culture diversity. It will be erected as a gateway for the Lawrence Avenue business corridor in what is now the vacant Metropolitan Water Reclamation District land.
According to the Albany Park Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Elizabeth Griffiths, the garden is scheduled to start next year. The Garden will cover a large area which will be connected with Skokie on the bike and walk paths in the Sculpture Park running along the Northshore Channel all the way to the Mayfair and Albany Park neighborhood near Know and Lawrence Avenues. Many venues have been envisioned for this Garden on the river, including murals, sculptures, landscaped gardens, and a plaza for concerts and other events. Click here for additional information.
NILES - Children in costumes are invited to Golf Mill Shopping Center, located at Golf Road and Milwaukee Avenue in Niles for some safe Halloween fun. The events will begin on October 31st at 3:30 p.m. with storytelling time at Waldenbooks Store. A bewitching tale about a witch who tries to scare 10 ghosts out of the haunted house where they live, titled Ten Timid Ghosts will be read. Golf Mill free trick-or-treating will be from 4 to 6 p.m. For more information, click here and scroll down to Community.
EDGEWATER - Edgewater residents are brainstorming new uses for a landmark vacated firehouse at 5712 N Ridge Avenue. At an October 18th Edgewater Community Council meeting ideas were reviewed. Built in 1928, the firehouse designed by architect Argyle E. Robinson replicates an era of horse-drawn fire-fighting equipment. Some of that historic equipment is still in the firehouse. To learn more, click here.
WICKER PARK/BUCKTOWN - Residents attended a meeting at the Wicker Park and Bucktown Library to discuss the use of retail space available on a four-acre site between Webster, Ashland, Elston and the Metra Line. A Milwaukee based grocer named Roundy submitted a proposal to build a supermarket in that space. The main concern for residents was the flow of traffic. One of the biggest problems cited was semi trucks making deliveries. Several alternatives were brought to the table. To find out more, click here.
JEFFERSON PARK/PORTAGE PARK/BELMONT - CTA has planned based on a November 4th budget outcome to eliminate the 86 Narragansett/Ridgeland bus route. Taft High School Principal, Dr Arthur Tarvardian said "Students will not be able to get to where they need to go when they need to get there." Of their 2600 students that attend the school, a good majority of them depend on this service to get them to and from school. The 36th Ward Alderman, William Banks, is concerned that many shoppers to the Brickyard from his ward will be inconvenienced as well. Banks added that if in turn it means that the property tax burden will fall on his constituents instead, bring on the cut of the bus route. Read more about this and other proposed CTA cuts by clicking here.
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