Wally’s World hosted more than 100 shows over three years, but after a nine-day good-bye blowout, it’s waiting for the wrecking ball.
Tag: gentrification
Posted inMusic
Time traveling with Martin Sorrondeguy of Los Crudos
Revisiting the old haunts of legendary 90s hardcore band Los Crudos provides a miniature history of gentrification and activism in Chicago.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Little Village residents hope Paseo won’t be a path to gentrification
Neighbors want affordable housing support to buffer rails-to-trails project.
Posted inBlogs
Logan Square ‘witches’ cast a protective—and political—spell
These activists have a new way to protest gentrification: hex those who profit.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
At the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Fest, a landlord plays censor to a Logan Square artist’s work
A case of censorship at the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival shows what can happen when art gets into bed with commerce.
Posted inFood & Drink
Bohemian rhapsody at Dusek’s
Dusek’s borrows a few tricks from Longman & Eagle—but it’s its own thing, too.
Posted inArts & Culture
The migration of the hipster
The migration of the hipster: A Chicago history, 1898-present
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The Chicago manual of school closings
A close look at how Chicago officials shutter public schools
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Keeping up with the Jones high school plans
How Mayor Emanuel could turn Jones high into a neighborhood school
Posted inBlogs
Cal’s closes its doors on New Year’s Day
Cal’s Bar, a South Loop staple, will be closing its doors one final time after their New Year’s Eve party
Posted inBlogs
The Logan Square beat
Adrian LaTrace talks about his Logan Square neighborhood blog, chiboulevards.com
Posted inBlogs
The Return of La Bombonera
Ramon Delgado closed his long-standing Cuban restaurant when Logan Square gentrified. Now he’s back.
Posted inBlogs
Who will get to live in Chicagolandâs 402 “transit zones”?
The next gentrification frontier
Posted inNews & Politics
New lines in an old battle: the gentrification of Wicker Park
They’re tearing down some of the dilapidated old buildings in the working-class area out west of the Kennedy Expressway, on the near-northwest side, and putting up a bunch of spanking new town houses. A lot of old-timers have been offered five times the money they paid for their homes. The realtors and brokers are all […]