CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS - LOOP, GOLD COAST, WEST LOOP, NORWOOD PARK, EVANSTON
LOOP
Sugar Bliss Cake Boutique opened this week in the
Loop. On their menu you can find
cupcakes in more than 20 flavors. Delicious buttercream frosting and moist
flavorful cake make these cupcakes a special treat. They come in regular and mini-sizes in a
variety of flavors that include vanilla milk chocolate, cinnamon carrot, and
chocolate hazelnut to name a few. They
offer breakfast cupcakes which include blueberry and apple cinnamon selections.
Made from scratch daily, single cupcakes sell for $3.50 and $1.50 for the mini;
a dozen are $40 for regular and $15 for mini.
For more information, click here.
GOLD COAST
Chicago Restaurant Week returns for it's second run in
February. With the turbulent financial
and weather conditions, Chicago area restaurants are experiencing a
decrease in the number of diners.
As a result over 130 restaurants will offer high priced menu meals at
affordable prices.
Kamehachi Restaurant Group decided to participate in order to stay aggressive
with the marketing, said Carl Meier, operations director for the family-owned
business with five spots. Two
full-service restaurants in the city, in the Old Town and Gold Coast
neighborhoods, will participate.
"We have 160 [employee] families depending on us to
make the right decision," he said.
To find out more, click here.
WEST LOOP
The beginning of 2009 seems like the right time to take
hold of your finances. Create a family
budget that gives you peace of mind.
Whether you're looking to pay down credit cards, or get your financial house in
order, there is help. Experts were
pooled for their advice and a 10-step plan you can use to build a better family
budget was created.
Julie Murphy Casserly, who heads JMC Wealth Management in the West Loop said,
"I've seen that pattern where people will not spend for nine months, and
then go hog wild. So I have people set up a shopping fund, so that they can
scratch that itch every once in a while."
Learn all about it, by clicking here.
NORWOOD
PARK
Taft
High School students organizing this year's St. Baldrick's event hope to at
least double the $17,000 they raised last year in March.
The
fund raiser will be one of thousands of events held across the county and
internationally in 2009 through the St. Baldrick's Foundation, which supports
childhood cancer research. Most of the
events are scheduled to be held on St. Patrick's Day, the date the first St.
Baldrick's event was held in 1999.
Taft's has planned theirs for April 1st.
The
foundation raised a total of $15 million last year.
Click here to find out more.
EVANSTON
The National Society of Film Critics has chosen "Waltz
With Bashir" as the best film of 2008.
This film has not even hit Chicago theaters. The film is scheduled to open Jan. 23 at
three Chicago-area theaters: AMC Pipers Alley Theatre in Chicago, Cinemark Cine
Arts in Evanston and Landmark's
Renaissance in Highland Park.
Ari Folman's animated documentary chronicles his coming to terms with
repressed memories of his experiences with the Israeli army in the 1982 Lebanon
war. This courageous film, which is nominated for a Golden Globe for best
foreign-language film. It uses multiple
animation techniques, has earned six awards from the Israeli Film Academy and
best animated film from the Los Angeles Film Critics
Association.
Read the article by clicking here.
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