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Block Club Chicago is an online newspaper that reports local and neighborhood news in Chicago.The website operates as a non-profit, subscription-based service. [1] [2]After DNAinfo was shut down in November 2017, Block Club Chicago was founded by three former DNAinfo Chicago editors – Shamus Toomey, Stephanie Lulay, and Jen Sabella.
In the early 2010s, gang activity skyrocketed and Parkway Gardens became the center of one of Chicago's most violent blocks. The 6400 block of South King Drive was known locally as "WIIIC CITY", [10] but began to be referred to as "O'Block" following the 2011 murder of resident and Black Disciples member Odee Perry.
A block club, block group or block association[1] is a type of local organization found in some urban areas in the United States, especially in the Midwest. A block club typically focuses on one or both sides of a city block on a single street, but some block clubs extend over larger areas. [1] A tenant council, which serves similar purposes ...
Median income 2019. $55,768 [1] Source: U.S. Census, Record Information Services. Edgewater is a lakefront community area on the North Side of the city of Chicago, Illinois six miles north of the Loop. The most recently established of the city's 77 official community areas, Edgewater is bounded by Foster Avenue on the south, Devon Avenue on the ...
Chance the Snapper is a four [1] to five [2] foot long American alligator that was found swimming in the Humboldt Park lagoon, in Chicago, Illinois, on the evening of July 9, 2019. [3] The animal was named after Chance the Rapper [4][5][6] in an online poll conducted by the Block Club Chicago news website, [7] beating other suggested nicknames ...
My Block, My Hood, My City, also known as M3, [1] is a non-profit organization in Chicago that mentors underprivileged youth through educational programs and field trips. [2] The organization focuses on providing opportunities in STEM , arts & culture, citizenry & volunteerism, health, community development , culinary arts , and entrepreneurship .
Washington Park (community area), Chicago. The Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic is the United States' largest African American parade. Washington Park is a community area on the South Side of Chicago which includes the 372 acre (1.5 km 2) park of the same name, [2] stretching east-west from Cottage Grove Avenue to the Dan Ryan Expressway, and ...
Lake Shore Drive (officially Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable Lake Shore Drive; [ 2 ][ 3 ] also known as DuSable Lake Shore Drive, [ 4 ]the Outer Drive, [ 5 ]the Drive, LSD or DLSD) is a semi-limited access expressway that runs alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan and its adjacent parkland and beaches in Chicago, Illinois.