By Kristin Boza If you’re looking for a unique gift, commissioning a painting of a home is a special way to memorialize a childhood home, a first home, or even to bring some beautiful art to
By Kristin Boza Home maintenance and repair is a year-round effort, especially for our historic homes here in Beverly/Morgan Park. Spring is the ideal time to check your home’s exterior
By Brittany Wiley BAPA Business Liaison Standard Properties Group [SPG Chicago], 10448 S. Western Ave., was founded by husband–and–wife team Spiro Georgelos and Selena Schrimple–Georgelos. The full–service real estate brokerage firm specializes in helping sellers navigate
By Cathriona Fey BAPA Community Outreach Students throughout Beverly/Morgan Park have started creating environmentally-inspired designs for BAPA’s Earth Day art contest. BAPA is looking for one–of–a–kind art to use year-round to promote its environmental
By Kristin Boza Small business owners have been getting really creative lately. A new brand of small business has taken Beverly/Morgan Park by storm: small batch food and cocktail delivery. These home
By Brittany Wiley BAPA Business Liaison The Quilter’s Trunk, 10352 S. Western, a quilting, sewing and embroidery boutique, has been serving the area since 2015. Over the course of those 5 years, owner Katie
By Kristin Boza When you think of dance in Beverly/Morgan Park, Marylee Sinopoli and her studio, Dance Gallery, 10628 S. Western, come to mind. For more than 20 years, Sinopoli and her team have taught dance
Browsing in Bookies. It’s a pastime a lot of neighbors have missed since the pandemic forced the bookstore to close for several months. Owner Keith Lewis has reopened the store on a limited basis (yay!) and
By Brittany Wiley BAPA Business Liaison As we enter into a time of overscheduling, celebrations and last–minute shopping, it’s easy to put self-care on the backburner. But especially after the shock we’ve all gone
By Cathriona Fey BAPA Community Outreach & Improvement After hitting the pause button almost eight months ago due to COVID-19, local volunteer organizations, residents and business owners are regrouping to continue the work
About half of BAPA’s budget comes from annual memberships from neighborhood residents and businesses.
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.
Beverly Area Planning Association
1744 W. 99th Street
Chicago, IL 60643
773-233-3100
