CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS - GOLD COAST, LAKEVIEW, LINCOLN PARK, JEFFERSON PARK, EVANSTON
GOLD COAST
The Chicago History Museum is offering Know your Neighborhood Walking Tours. A guide will leads strolls through historic areas through Aug. 23rd beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturdays. One such tour: The Glitzy Gold Coast is $5-$10 and registration is required. For more information click here.
LAKEVIEW
Talented artisan cheesemakers and cheese experts from all across the country will be attending the American Cheese Society's 25th Annual Conference and Competition in Chicago July 23 to 27.
Most events are open only to society members, however the public can attend a Festival of Cheese. Over 1,200 cheeses will be offered for tasting. The festival will be held from 5:30 to 9 p.m. July 26 at the Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave.; tickets are $85.
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LINCOLN PARK
Locally we are experiencing the most persistent hot spell of the summer. It is predicted to continue into the weekend. In Chicago, three, maybe four additional 90-degree highs are on the way by Saturday. Temperatures first reached 90 degrees at 1:50 p.m. Tuesday at Midway Airport and at 2.49 p.m. at O'Hare International Airport. This is only the second time this year the city's official thermometer has made it to that high of a reading. Other area highs included 93 degrees in New Lenox, Alsip and Chicago's Lincoln Park. Click here for the entire story.
JEFFERSON PARK
Ground is scheduled to be broken in mid-August for indoor bicycle shelters at four CTA train stations, city officials said.
Because of high gasoline prices people are more apt to use public transportation. Shelters will be built at stations in neighborhoods most frequented by cyclists, according to the Chicago Department of Transportation. These include the Midway Airport station on the Orange Line, the Sox-35th Street station on the Red Line and the Jefferson Park and Damen Avenue stations on the Blue Line. Click here to read more.
EVANSTON
A developer took a huge step toward bringing a Trader Joe's grocery store to downtown Evanston in a location where a supermarket used to operate about 20 years ago.
Robert King, the C.E.O. of Carroll Place properties, was looking for City Council backing for a curb cut, or driveway, allowing cars on Emerson Street to turn into a mixed use residential project he has proposed to build at 1890 Maple Avenue.
The curb cut is just one of the conditions of Trader Joe's in deciding to agree to open a 13,500-square-foot store on the property, the developers told council members recently at a committee meeting. Click here for more information.
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