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The Beverly Area Planning Association (BAPA) is a not-for-profit, community-based alliance of more than a dozen civic and business groups dedicated to serving the historic Beverly Hills/Morgan Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Upcoming Events: Breakfast with the Experts




International Financier/Chicago Media Leader James C. Tyree discusses "the good, the bad and the ugly" of the U.S. economy at SXU
 

Mesirow Financial CEO/President and Sun-Times Media Holdings, LLC chairman expresses guarded optimism about economy, future of the media at “Breakfast with the Experts” series

 
 



Lives Dedicated to Community Service Seeds Girls Mentoring
By Tina Jenkins Bell 
Cracking the statistical key for winning the Lotto. Discovering a long-lost inheritance large enough to pay off a hefty mortgage and quit your job. Finding a Mercedes Benz, with a license plate bearing your name, parked where your Ford Focus once was. These are probable responses from people asked to come up with a life-altering, exciting idea capable of making them spring from their beds. April Preyar, on the other hand, had another idea. 
 



Memory Lane . . .
 
BAPA and the Ridge Historical Society have joined to bring you a new monthly feature: Memory Lane. Each month you will find a photograph from the extensive collection of the Ridge Historical Society. If you have any information about the photograph, you are encouraged to contact the Ridge Historical Society. You might even win a $25 gift card! 

 

 
 



New book highlights Obama’s early political career, showing rise of grassroots and Netroots
 
“Mr. and Mrs. Grassroots: How Barack Obama, Two Bookstore Owners, and 300 Volunteers Did It,” examines Obama’s early political career, showing the rise of his grassroots and Netroots organizations through the eyes and experiences of John Presta, a popular Beverly/Morgan Park independent bookstore owner and neighborhood resident.   
 




 
This month's Shop Hopping takes readers to Cakewalk Chicago, Koda Bistro, Cafe 103 and Beverly's Pantry, and Sally Ann's Corset Shop