Need a job in Rogers Park?

Here’s what one Rogers Park student thinks about the Rogers Park Youth Employment Strategies program.

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, employment, job, Rogers Park, Rogers Park YES, Rogers Park Youth Employment Strategies, student, summer job

“I’m suspiscious that a few people in Rogers Park are afraid to face a few tough questions I plan to pose”. Read more here.

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, leaving Rogers Park, Rogers Park, tough questions

Photos by Nelson Hermance

“In Chicago, my best friend lived on the border of infamous gang territory in Rogers Park. Had she not warned me ahead of time, I would’ve thought the gunfire in the middle of the night outside her window was just the sound of kids lighting bottle rockets”. Read more here.

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, Chicago, gang territory, gunfire, infamous, Rogers Park, world view

Rogers Park

49th Ward

Rogers Park

It’s common procedure after a fire in a large building.

Businesses at 7301 N. Sheridan Road are open.

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, 7301 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago Fire Department, fire inspection, Rogers Park

You are invited to our upcoming art meeting 6pm-9:30pm at:

Insight Arts
1545 W. Morse (United Church in Rogers Park).
At 4:30-5:45pm,

I am inviting you also, to participate in a movement theater workshop (dress comfortable to stretch and move).

I am looking forward to see many of you this coming Tuesday!

Yours Marianna Buchwald and the International Art Group,
info at 773 507 -1300
http://www.internationalartadventures.com/

Tags: 1545 W. Morse Avenue, 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, Insight Arts, International Art Adventures, Marianna Buchwald, Rogers Park, United Church

You’ve got the Power in your vote. But, you have to be registered to use it. Are YOU registered? If not, you have options.

Options to register to vote include:

• Downloading a voter registration application http://www.questpcs.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.chicagoelections.com/docs/vr_eng.pdf from the Board web site at http://www.questpcs.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.chicagoelections.com/. This form must be received by Jan. 8!

• Registering at any Illinois Secretary of State driver’s license facility.

• Registering in-person at the Chicago Election Board offices, 69 W. Washington Street, Suite 600, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.• By obtaining the mail-in form at any Chicago Public Library – Rogers Park Branch of the Chicago Public Library, 6907 N. Clark St. 60626.

• On Tues., January 8, go to Chicago City Hall or the Chicago Board of Elections office at 69 W. Washington St., Suite 600, where the Election Board will offer voter registration up to the midnight deadline.To register to vote, persons must be citizens of the United States and be at least 18 years of age by the Feb. 5 primary.When registering through a deputy registrar or at the Board of Election office, a person needs to show two (2) valid pieces of identification, one with a residence address.

You’ve got the Power to make change happen when you vote. Register! Vote!

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, Board of Election office, Chicago Board of Elections, Chicago City Hall, deputy registrar, Rogers Park, Rogers Park Voter, vote

Google received a request to start sending Alerts for the search “Adelphi Theater”

Google received a request to start sending Alerts for the search “Quest Network Services”.

Google received a request to start sending Alerts for the search “60645″.

Google received a request to start sending Alerts for the search “60626″.

Google received a request to start sending Alerts for the search “49th Ward”.

Have you been?

Let’s try “Rogers Park” for starters.

“My name is Esteban Quintero and my so call friend Nigel William who’s apartment that got on fire we went to get his coat for we can go to the library we went down stairs to get his coat he said that he smelled smoke then we saw the smoke coming from his door then I told him to run upstairs to tell my staff that his apartment is on fire then the staff opened the apartment and then we saw smoke all over his kitchen then I covered my face and went inside and try to open his room then I finally did and I saw pitch black smoke and got out of there and we ran outside and call 911 for they can come and stop it that’s all my story and my friend blame for the fire I dont like that now his apartment is all burned up”.

- Esteban Quintero on apartment fire:

Apartment 307
7301 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL. 60626

Further questioning of Esteban Quintero provided the information that the fire was caused by an unattended cigarette. A Chicago Fire Fighter also stated the cause as a cigarette.

See also:

Rogers Park high rise fire under control – Chicago Sun-Times

Local News Covers Fire in Rogers Park – The ‘Broken Heart’ of Rogers Park

Tags: 60626, 60645, 7301 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago Fire Department, Chicago Police Department, Fire, fire hydrant, Rogers Park, Sheridan Road

Happy 2008: Dive Into Entrepreneurship!

“It’s Polar Bear Day — or how about Polar People Day — in Rogers Park, Illinois where folks strip off their clothes and jump into the lake. How wild is that?! And to think they did this when it’s 22 degrees F. (who cares to bring up there was also a wind chill factor … why look at the waves in the water). What uncommon bravery”. – Read more here.

Tags: 2008, 22 degrees, 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, Escape from Corporate America, Laurel Delaney, New Years day, Rogers Park

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, Adelphi Theater, Bill Morton, carbon arc, lights out, movie theater, projector room, Rogers Park

.. And don’t forget to check out, Disco Jomo. (thanks Craig)

Tags: 2008, 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, Bill Morton, Disco Jomo, Happy New Year, New Years day, New Years Eve, Rogers Park

Re: We don’t knead extra graffiti in Rogers Park

So that’s where that old truck ended up! Actually, the Corner Bakery truck you photographed does not actually belong to Corner Bakery any longer. It was sold when our company was sold by our former parent company, Brinker International, and was to have been repainted. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. If you happen to see it again, don’t hesitate to photograph the license plate for us and send it our way so we can do our part to try to rid Rogers Park of graffiti!

Dianna Robinson
Director of Marketing
Corner Bakery Cafe

Photos from the original post:

Thank you Dianna,

- Bill Morton

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, Brinker International, Corner Bakery Cafe, Dianna Robinson, Making things better in Rogers Park, Rogers Park

3am, 3:20am, 4am and again at 4:20am, brown-outs and power outages occured on and around the 730o N. Sheridan Road block of Rogers Park.

Again, businesses lost hours of work and the Chicago Fire Department had to check up on the retirement communities and group homes in the area.

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, 7301 N. Sheridan Road, brown-out, power outage, Rogers Park

YoChicago deleted the following message on their Rogers Park feature:

“Although I am for progress, that last picture of the demolition site of the Adelphi Theater was an example of a historic building and viable business being destroyed wastefully”.”It’s been well over a year since the demolition, and the planned condo-project never happened. It’s just a sad hole in the ground”. – Bill Morton

So, I tweaked it a little bit for further consideration and re-posted.

“I am not opposed to progress, but the demolition of the Adelphi Theater (in the last picture above), was an example of wasteful destruction of a historical building and viable business.
It has been well over a year, and the demolition site is still an eyesore hole in the ground”. – Bill Morton

What do you think? Are they going to delete my Rogers Park comment again?

Check out the YoChicago Rogers Park article and post here.

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, Adelphi Theater, Bill Morton, demolition eyesore, Rogers Park, viable business, wasteful destruction, YoChicago

“Rogers Park (where I lived for three years) had it’s charms and diversity but what got me out of there was a bullet that came through my window”. Read more here.

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, bullet, Gapers Block, Rogers Park

Rogers Park was mentioned five times.

“Rogers Park. It’s just still so depressing. I know there are some great old beautiful houses, but for the most part it’s still a bit scary”. Read more here.

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, Gapers Block, least favorite, Rogers Park, scary

“Bill: Mr Blurface is a super villain with stupendous powers. One look from him can, if he wills it, freeze you in place. Bullets can be stopped by his gaze, and steel melted by his stare. He performs many evil deeds for Alderman Moore, who is himself a master criminal”.

Read more here.

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, Alderman Joe Moore, Alderman Moore, evil deeds, Joe Moore, master criminal, Mr. Blurface, Rogers Park, super villian

Rather than a condo boom, I’ve more often heard it referred to as “teardown madness”.

Here is an interesting posting on the subject from the 24/7 North of Howard Watchers

“So lenders are facing bankruptcy due to what some consider greed or poor judgement. Owners are facing foreclosure from a mixture of financial ignorance and/or living beyond their means. So what support is there for those left to face other peoples often sad realities”? … Read more here.

Tags: 24/7 North of Howard Watchers, condo boom, demolition eyesore, financial ignorance, foreclosure, poor judgement, Rogers Park, teardown

Craig says…

Bill Morton says…

anon says…

Condo Boom? I have a list of Rogers Park real estate going into foreclosure.

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, anonymous poster, Bill Morton, condo boom, Craig Gernhardt, Rogers Park, YoChicago

Here’s one of the two definitions listed for Rogers Park:

“One of the few slums left on Chicago’s otherwise nice North Side.

Pedestrians here are often “gooned” (randomly beaten) while walking down the street, dilapidated tenements line the ‘L’ tracks and Morse Avenue is a notorious open-air drug market.

In fact, Rogers Park is so hoodish that its criminal atmosphere seeps into south Evanston, immediately past Howard Street to the north.

Typical inhabitants include drug dealers, thugs, homeless people and annoying, pretentious hipsters who would rather listen to a gunshot lullaby every night than live in a nice neighborhood like Lincoln Park or Lakeview.

Humboldt Park and Uptown may be crappy North Side neighborhoods, but Rogers Park takes the cake.

Rogers Park is the Englewood of the North Side”.

For the full page click here.

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, Rogers Park, Urban Dictionary

Bill Morton said:

“Although I am for progress, that last picture of the demolition site of the Adelphi Theater was an example of a historic building and viable business being destroyed wastefully”.

“It’s been well over a year since the demolition, and the planned condo-project never happened. It’s just a sad hole in the ground”.

Read more here.

Tags: 49th Ward, 60626, 60645, Adelphi Theater, Citizens for the Adelphi Theater, demolition eyesore, Rogers Park, YoChicago

Rogers Park in 1,000 words: Sunrise on Sherwin

Rogers Park in 1,000 words: Walking through Rogers Park tonight. *Part III

Rogers Park in 1,000 words: Walking through Rogers Park tonight. *Part II

Rogers Park in 1,000 words: A Quest workstation. More of a nice picture than a plug.

Rogers Park in 1,000 words: Walking through Rogers Park tonight. *Part I

Rogers Park in 1,000 words: A different kind of “Art”, in the Arts District. *Part II

Rogers Park in 1,000 words: Always change your locks.

Rogers Park in 1,000 words: A Quest workstation. More of a nice picture than a plug.