Safe Crossings and Emptier Streets Add to Local Bikeability
By Kristin Boza Bike riding in an urban community is challenging; often, only the most experienced riders will even attempt to bike down a major thoroughfare like Western Avenue. However, promoting walkability […]
Business Spotlight: The LAB Pays It Forward
By Brittany Wiley BAPA Business Liaison The Live and Believe Wellness Center (LAB) is a fitness studio (2019 W. 95th St.) and café (2025 W 95th St.) owned by the Martin family, Morgan and her father Mike. Since […]
Things to Do in the May Garden
By Barbara Gyarmathy, Master Gardener “Some of what happens to nature is beyond our control. But not our backyards. This is where we can do our bit to help the […]
Camping Out at a (Social) Distance
The Boy Scout motto is “Be prepared” and scouts from Troop 607 at Bethany Union Church were well prepared when they organized a troop campout in mid-April. The Troop usually […]
Teletherapy Options Offer Help Coping with Pandemic
Mental health is as important as physical health during the pandemic. Being isolated from loved ones and friends, being quarantined with your spouse and kids, being separated from loved ones […]
Beverly Breast Cancer Walk Goes Virtual
The OSF Beverly Breast Cancer Walk has been a Mother’s Day tradition in Beverly/Morgan Park for 20 years. The walk provides a way for the community to come together to […]
How a Small School Shortened the Gap Between Classroom and Home
Council Oak Montessori School (COMS) took immediate steps to provide online schooling when schools were first closed, with their virtual classrooms opening at 8:30 a.m. Mar. 30. “This is not […]
City Grange Plans May 9 Opening
The opening of the new City Grange location at 1818 W. 99th St. has been delayed by the pandemic, but hopes are they customers will be welcoming them to the […]
Castle Restoration Update
The Castle Restoration Task Force has fulfilled all requirements for receipt of the Adopt-a-Landmark grant from the city of Chicago. With funds in escrow from this grant and almost 200 […]
A Message from BAPA’s Board President
By Maureen Gainer Reilly Unprecedented. It’s a word that most of us almost never used to use, and now it’s become the word we call on every day as our […]