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This year's "most endangered" buildings include: ~Delaware Bldg, where renos have stagnated since McDonald's reportedly won't cede 93 sqft ~Darrow Bridge, where Clarence Darrow's ghost may return if there's an afterlife ~Central Mfg. District clock tower blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/04/chi…

The Army Corps of Engineers has withdrawn its decision to expand a lakefront dump for polluted, dredged sediment, agency officials said Tuesday. The reversal follows a lawsuit from local environmentalists and pushback from the IL EPA and Attorney General. blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/11/pla…

City Council votes 34-15 to settle with Miracle Boyd, the activist hit by Chicago Police officer Nicholas Jovanovich at a 2020 protest, for $280K. Story to come.

A few dozen gathered Thursday for a flower-tossing ceremony at the Clarence Darrow Memorial Bridge. As they have for decades, attendees celebrated Darrow’s ongoing influence as an attorney and activist — this year, on the centennial of the Scopes trial. blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/14/nei…

Under CKO Real Estate, residents faced utility shutoffs, sewage, infestations + 31° indoor temps. After a fire, CKO abruptly said it was done managing its properties, leaving tenants "in the dark" about who would. "That’s just such an intentional evil."blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/19/res…

ICYMI: I joined Katrina Pham on Friday's weekly roundup for City Cast Chicago. I talked housing justice in South Shore, the latest on the South Works redevelopment... and FKA twigs FKA twigs 48 hours until FKA twigs chicago.citycast.fm/podcasts/why-i…

Community approves plans for Washington Park Bank rehabilitation hpherald.com/evening_digest…

With "regulars" after just a few days in business, smoked salmon from Calumet Fisheries and plans for arts and games, Colibrí Coffee at 106/Ewing aims to "link ourselves to the community as tightly as possible," owner Anais Robles said. blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/26/col…

TOMORROW at 7 p.m. — Join me, fellow reporters and neighbors for News Night at First Presbyterian Church, 6400 S Kimbark Ave in Woodlawn! Hang out with us and pitch in to the conversation as we talk about the news stories on our collective minds.

Here's Colin Boyle, still undefeated at this photo stuff. Dispatches from a beautiful Monday afternoon in Jackson Park: blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/14/jac…

I lost track of time while admiring the beauty of the cherry blossoms today 🌸❤️ with Maxwell Evans & Block Club Chicago Jackson Park Cherry Blossoms Are Finally Back After 2-Year Hiatus blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/14/jac…

For the past three months, kids in Bret Harte Elementary's science club have used robotics kits, Lego sets, 3D printing pens and their creativity to design a lunar habitat. The students presented their projects to NASA personnel this week. blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/16/kid…

A Hyde Park grocer, wine merchant and florist plans to open the Night Heron wine bar late this year, platforming small wineries and natural wines. The bar is named for an endangered bird which local birders hope to attract to nearby Jackson Park. blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/28/nig…

Andrea Faye Hart, trina reynolds-tyler and Eve L. Ewing, three "day-one" friends of Build Coffee, will take over the Woodlawn café as "volunteer owners." The trio says they want to be a model for running a "politically and community-oriented" shop. blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/05/eve…

The old Wadsworth school in Woodlawn, recently renovated for a now-closed migrant shelter, is available starting at $3M. The old South Shore HS was initially on the market until city officials asked CPS to take the listing down, a district rep said. blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/13/as-…

A concrete slab sitting in a UChicago garage may not immediately register as art — let alone a piece lovingly saved from obscurity and decay. "Concrete Traffic" is gaining new attention as its custodians prepare a book on the '57 Caddy encased in concrete.blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/28/sou…