Great Music and Outstanding Food: Don’t Miss These Events!
Fest Offers Tacos, Tequila and Live Music Americano’s presents the 2nd Annual Up in Smoke music festival featuring tacos, tequila and live music, Sat., Aug. 28, 12 to 10 p.m., and Sun., Aug 29, 12 to 8 p.m., at the restaurant, 11060 S. Western. This year’s festival features some rockin’ local bands and headliner Charley Crockett. On the […]
Neighborhood Notes: News for August 2021
Test your puzzle-solving skills this summer with BAPA’s 2021 History Mystery Bike Adventure. Find the game map at bapa.org then use the clues to track down fun facts about our community. Snap a pic of your completed puzzle solution and email with your contact info by Sept. 15 to bapa@bapa.org. The Margaritaville Mile craft margarita crawl continues through Sept. 6 […]
July 2021 Community Calendar
Please note: BAPA summer office hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mon. through Thurs. Contact BAPA at 773-233-3100 or bapa@bapa.org. Get in the groove with DJ Jon from Beverly Records spins on the patio this summer for Vinyl Thursdays, 6 to 9 p.m., at Nicky’s of Beverly, 105th and Western. The Beverly Art Center’s popular Music Mondays free concert series continues in the BAC Courtyard. 2407 […]
January Community Calendar
Grab your favorite beverage, log-in to the City Grange Classroom for a casual houseplant chat with expert Alex Muehlbauer, Thursdays, beginning Jan. 14, 6:15 p.m. Each week they show off the store’s beautiful houseplant inventory, share great info, and take your questions. There may even be a special guest or two. Free, but registration is required; go to Citygrange.com and select classes. You will be sent a link […]
Neighborhood Notes: Community Events for December
LSC Meetings. Call the school or visit their website for information on in-person or virtual LSC meetings. John H. Vanderpoel Humanities Academy LSC, Tues., Dec. 1, 5:30 p.m., 773-535-2690, VHAElementary.org; Kellogg School LSC, Thurs., Dec. 3 and Jan. 7, 6 p.m., 773-535-2590, Kellogg.CPS.Edu; Barnard Elementary School LSC, Mon., Dec. 14, 6:30 p.m., 773-535-2625, Barnard.CPS.edu; Morgan […]
November Community Calendar
Beverly Therapists hosts low-cost monthly seminars addressing mental, emotional and relational health on the second Saturday of each month, 3 to 5 p.m. The Nov. 14 seminar, “For Couples: Shifting Communication Patterns,” focuses on helping couples learn and use effective communication skills to improve intimacy, identify communication patterns and to help shift the outcomes of one’s relationship. Presenter Kanosha Leonard, LCPC has advanced training […]
October Calender
Apply to vote by mail at chicagoelections.gov/VoteByMail. The election is Nov. 3. Every vote counts! Call the school or visit their website for information on in-person or virtual Local School Council meetings. John H. Vanderpoel Humanities Academy LSC, Tues., Oct. 6, 5:30 p.m., 773-535-2690. Sutherland School LSC, Tues., Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m., 773-535-2580, sutherland.CPS.edu. Morgan Park High School LSC, Wed., Oct. […]
September Neighborhood Notes
High School 101: Free Parent Seminar. Families in the 19th Ward have a lot of choices when it comes to high schools, and parents of 6th, 7th and 8th graders need to begin the search now for the right high school for their kids. On Thurs., Sept. 10, 7 p.m., Ald. Matt O’Shea and BAPA will host High School 101, a free […]
Community Calendar
Student Art On Display. Original works by the students in the 2020 Vanderpoel Art Association art class are now on display at the Chicago Public Library, Beverly Branch, 95th and Damen. The students attended Basic Drawing, Cartooning and Sequential Art Classes with Instructors, Jim and Spencer McGreal. Some of the student pieces are published in the class project comic books, “Comic Bork: The Empire Strikes […]
Great Connections Prepares Great Thinkers
The Great Connections will be bringing together young adults, age 16 to 24, who want to learn more from the great thinkers in philosophy, psychology, mathematics and more in the Reason and Love Summer Seminar, July 25 to 31. This seminar is just one of the exciting opportunities that The Great Connections offers that helps young people become great thinkers themselves. A centerpiece of The […]