Neighbors celebrate the re-dedication of the Peterson Garden Group Project’s World War II Victory Garden with a veggie parade and old-fashioned Fourth of July block club party.
By LORRAINE SWANSON
Editor
A 26-year-old man pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of criminal damage to property for his part in damaging a West Ridge synagogue in December 2009.
Servando Beiza, of the 6500 block of North Francisco, was given one year of probation and ordered to pay $1,000 in restitution to…
By LORRAINE SWANSON
Editor
Anshe Motele can’t catch a break.
A few years ago, vandals ripped down the synagogue’s front awning. Last year, Anshe Motele was attacked in a hate crime spree that targeted four neighborhood Jewish schools and religious centers. Despite the best efforts of the city’s graffiti blasters, traces of the…
Attendance boudaries have been drawn up for the new elementary school being built in West Ridge at 6700 N. Whipple. Between 500 and 600 students are expected to transfer to the new school from Boone and Clinton Elementary Schools. See the map for the new school boundaries.
LEN just happened to stop by St. Margaret Mary School in West Ridge last Thursday during “Catholic Schools Week.” The elementary school was all abuzz with “High Interest Day,” where students were participating in a variety of fun workshops led by talented teachers and parents.
Students dressed as their chosen grown-up vocations…
Conspiracy theorists in West Ridge and Rogers Park can relax. The Rogers Park Organization is not a top-secret industrial military complex.
Dorothy Brown doesn’t want to be Terry O’Brien, the water treatment facility at Howard and McCormick doesn’t stink, candidates argue why he or she would make the best county board president at Sunday’s Democratic candidates’ forum at Temple Menorah in West Ridge. See the slide show.
Crime may be down, but Rogers Park and Edgewater residents still don’t feel safe.
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