CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS - LAKEVIEW, SOUTH LOOP, LINCOLN PARK, EDISON PARK, NAPERVILLE
LAKEVIEW
The Gap is opening a handful of Chicago-area stores on Thanksgiving Day to get a head start on the
traditional post-Thanksgiving Holiday shopping
kick-off.
This will be the first time Chicago shoppers
will find a Gap open before they sit down to Turkey dinner. It will certainly be a benefit to be able to
try on a new pair of jeans, before your Thanksgiving feast begins.
The Gap flagship store downtown on North
Michigan Ave. will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Three other stores will be open from noon to 5
p.m. at North Sheffield in Lincoln Park, at Broadway and Belmont in Lakeview
and in suburban Naperville, and will have 35 stores open nationwide on
Thanksgiving, mostly in Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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SOUTH LOOP
Former
President Franklin
Roosevelt had Warm
Springs, while John F. Kennedy headed off to Hyannisport, and George W. Bush can be found on the ranch in Crawford,
Texas.
Historically Presidents frequent set vacation destinations away from the White House.
Barack Obama has suggested that his family getaway could be right here
in the Kenwood neighborhood, where he owns a home bought in 2005 for $1.65
million.
During a
brief visit to a South Loop deli the other day, the president-elect shook hands
with diners and told one of them he isn't planning to put the house on the
market when he heads to Washington
in January.
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LINCOLN PARK
A sacred
relic of an Italian-American nun who helped the poor and sick in Chicago was moved Sunday
to a new temporary home in a Little Village church.
Parishioners at the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii welcomed the relic, a bone of
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini. She was
the first American to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
"She is one of us," said Bishop
Raymond Goedert during the services. "Every piece of Chicago was blessed by her presence. Chicago
is where she lived and died."
Mother Cabrini founded many hospitals, schools and orphanages throughout the
country. In Chicago,
she founded the now-shuttered Columbus
Hospital in Lincoln Park.
The Cabrini-Green public-housing complex was named in her honor.
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information.
EDISON PARK
With
its membership numbers fading, Norwood Park American Legion Post 740 started a
merger this fall into Edison Park Post 541.
The
Norwood Park Post once had its own building.
Subsequently they have leased a space, and later met at the Norwood Park
Field House. After a while, the members
were just meeting at individual residences.
Now they are signing up at Post 541.
Former
Norwood Park Post Commander Lucille Janssens, who served in the United States
Marines during World War II and is 89, is being provided with transportation
back and forth to meetings.
Many Norwood Park post members are also veterans of
World War II and are into their 80s. There are still others who served during
more recent conflicts, including the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the 1990-91
Gulf War, and the current conflicts in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
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find out more, click here.
NAPERVILLE
Tommy
Nevin's Pub will be serving up a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with all the
trimmings to area residents who would not otherwise be able to enjoy the
holiday this Thanksgiving.
Food
has been donated by Sysco Food Service.
The dinner includes turkey, potatoes, stuffing and pumpkin pie. Marcus
Mooney, corporate chef at the pub, said the restaurant has enough food to feed
300 to 400 people.
The meal will be
served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at the restaurant, 3032 English Rows, in
Naperville.
"We
are trying to help the less fortunate in the area," Mooney said. "We
are looking to get the word out to bring people in who need to have a warm lunch."
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more information, click here.
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