GREETINGS FROM 'GERMANIA'

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"When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually."   R. Buckminster Fuller
Our motto:
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem!"

ROGERS PARK COMMUNITY MEETING ON TIFs........

LET'S TALK TIFs IN THE 49th WARD! An Illumination of the six Tax Increment Financing Districts in the 49th ward. - How much property taxes do these TIFs extract yearly?  - Where does the money go? - What can you do about it? - And much more....... Presenter is Tom Tresser, of the CivicLab's TIF Illumination Project (TIP). TIP is investigating and exposing what TIFs do to us on a ward-by-ward basis. http://www.tifreports.com/ Monday, June 17 7:00pm to 9:00pm  Loyola Park Field House 1230 W Greenleaf Avenue

'MOTHER NATURES' MORNING COLORS.......

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"Spring Dawn in Germania"

A NE view from 'The Crows' Nest'..

May 6, 2013

"Morning Has Broken"

CELEBRATE CINCO DE MAYO!

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"Fading Contrail & Crescent Moon"

 

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

Here are several 'off the beaten path' ways to

celebrate the day....enjoy!

HOWARD STREET HISTORY....

On May 4th in 1917, the Howard Theatre opened.....
http://www.compassrose.org/balaban-and-katz/Howard-Theatre.html

CELEBRATE EARTH DAY 2013!

For the history of Earth Day.....link here.

Do your part.....get involved and spread the word.

 

HISTORY OF GERMANIA....

Here's a link to the Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society's web site and a brief history of the North of Howard neighborhood...aka...Germania.

REGISTER NOW FOR CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT SPRING & SUMMER PROGRAMS......

at Willye B. White Park & Field House! 

Don't delay....sign up today!

 

LOCAL, REGIONAL & NATIONAL REAL ESTATE INFORMATION...

Housing Trends eNewsletter is filled with U.S. Census Bureau key market indicators, consumer videos, blogs, a real estate glossary, mortgage rates and calculators, consumer articles, real estate radio, REALTOR.com local community reports and local and national real estate sales and price activity provided by local MLSs and the National Association of REALTORS®.

Here's a link to the March 2013 issue.

 

HERE'S TO HAROLD.....

Tributes to the late Mayor Harold Washington start Friday

BY MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA

Sun-Times Staff Reporter

 mihejirika@suntimes.com

 April 11, 2013 7:58PM   

Chicago Mayor Harold Washington holds page one of the Chicago Sun-Times following appearances on the NBC's Today Show February 1987 Sun-Times photo by John H. White

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 "You want Harold? Well, herrrre’s Harold!”

 

Those famous words of the late Mayor Harold Washington after winning Election Day 1983 speak to a month long tribute starting Friday.

 

“It’s really important people remember the real Harold Washington, not just the bright, articulate mayor with a smile, but the first reform mayor,” says Cook County Clerk David Orr, then alderman of the 49th ward who also served as Washington’s vice mayor. “He had so many achievements,” Orr says. “But political interests try to minimize them.” 

 

Orr is among a diverse coalition of civil rights, political, civic, and religious leaders who formed a 30th Anniversary Harold Washington Tribute Committee that is launching a month long campaign to honor the legacy of the city’s first black mayor.

They’ll kick it off at a morning news conference at Hyde Park’s Ramada Lake Shore — the same hotel where Washington accepted the community’s draft, announcing his candidacy on Nov. 10, 1982. Washington died on Nov. 25, 1987, just after winning a second term.

 

“For the last several years, I’ve been thinking about Harold’s legacy and seeing it fade away,” says longtime political activist/socialite Josie Childs, who initiated the effort. “Bear in mind, 30 years is a generation-plus. People tell me they go to schools, mention Harold, and kids don’t know [him]. Our mission is to perpetuate his legacy.” Washington, who served in the state legislature and the U.S. Congress before taking helm of one of America’s most segregated and racially volatile cities, was first to open city government — to media through a Freedom of Information executive order, and to minorities through ward redistricting and representation, and fairer distribution of city services. He was elected by a unique coalition of blacks, Latinos and white “lakefront liberals.”

 

“One of the most important living legacies of the Washington administration is that he really opened the doors to women, certainly to racial minorities, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians,” says Cook County Commissioner Jesus Garcia, then 22nd ward alderman. “If we had not lived the Harold Washington experience, I don’t think Carol Mosely Braun would have been inspired to seek the Senate, or Barack Obama, the presidency,” he says.

 

The month’s planned activities begin with Friday night’s “Commemorative Election Reception” at the Marmon Grand — Washington was elected on the same date in 1983. They include myriad forums at area universities, an April 27th youth summit, and a closing celebration on April 29 at the Harold Washington Cultural Center featuring the Chi-Lites.

 

“This is extremely important,” says Soft Sheen founder Ed Gardner, 88, then a key Washington fund-raiser who now leads the charge for greater construction work for blacks. “It’s the responsibility of the people in my age category to let the young people know that Chicagoans many years ago got together when they felt they had an opportunity to elect a black mayor for this city, that it was done by pulling the strengths of races from all parts of ths city, and that mayor did so much for this city, and for blacks.”
 

For more information, visit www.MayorHaroldWashington.com

PLAY BALL!

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49th WARD STREET SWEEPING SCHEDULE

Greg Wagner
49th Ward
Superintendent of Streets & Sanitation

49th Ward Sanitation Office
6441 N. Ravenswood
312.744.0940
Each residential street in the 49th Ward is swept at least once a month from April 1st through the middle of November. The following is the planned schedule for upcoming months, but please look for the bright orange street cleaning signs, as dates may change.
Please note that the Edgewater portion of the 49th Ward (the far southern section) is cleaned by the 48th Ward. Contact 48th Ward Alderman Harry Osterman's office (harry@48thward.org; 773-784-5277) for information about street cleaning in that section.
Also please note that permanent street sweeping schedules are posted on all our major commercial streets and on Glenwood and Ravenswood along the CTA and Metra embankments. Those streets are swept once or twice a week.
How can you help? Remind your neighbors to move their cars on street sweeping days. Refrain from blowing or raking leaves or other debris into the streets. Pick up litter along the curb rather than leaving it for the street sweepers. Street sweeper vehicles are slowed down by large volumes of leaves and litter. The more cooperation we have from the community, the more frequently we can sweep your street.

2013 Residential Street Sweeping Schedule

APRIL	MAY	JUNE
1st & 2nd/Section 1	1st & 2nd/ Section 1	3rd & 4th/ Section 1
3rd & 4th / Section 2	3rd & 6th / Section 2	5th & 6th / Section 2
5th & 8th / Section 3	7th & 8th / Section3	7th & 10th / Section 3
9th & 10th / Section 4	9th & 10th / Section4	11th & 12th / Section 4
11th & 12th / Section 5	13th & 14th / Section 5	13th & 14th / Section 5
15th & 16th / Section 6	15th & 16th / Section 6	17th & 18th / Section 6
17th & 18th / Section 7	17th & 18th / Section 7	19th & 20th / Section 7
19th & 22nd / Section 8	21st & 22nd / Section 8	21st & 24th / Section 8
23rd & 24th / Section 9	23rd & 24th / Section 9	25th & 26th / Section 9
25th & 26th / Section 10	28th & 29th / Section10	27th & 28th / Section10
29th & 30th/ Section 11	30th & 31st / Section 11	----
----	----	----

JULY	AUGUST	SEPTEMBER
1st & 2nd/Section 11	1st & 2nd / Section 11	3rd & 4th / Section 11
3rd & 5th / Section 1	5th & 6th / Section 1	5th & 6th / Section 1
8th & 9th / Section 2	7th & 8th / Section 2	9th & 10th / Section 2
10th & 11th / Section 3	9th & 12th / Section 3	11th & 12th / Section 3
12th & 15th / Section 4	13th & 14th / Section 4	13th & 16th / Section 4
16th & 17th / Section 5	15th & 16th / Section 5	17th & 18th / Section 5
18th & 19th / Section 6	19th & 20th / Section 6	19th & 20th / Section 6
22nd & 23rd / Section 7	21st & 22nd / Section 7	23rd & 24th / Section 7
24th & 25th / Section 8	23rd & 26th / Section 8	25th & 26th / Section 8
26th & 29th / Section 9	27th & 28th / Section 9	27th & 30th / Section 9
30th and 31st / Section 10	29th & 30th / Section 10	----
----	----	----

OCTOBER	NOVEMBER	DECEMBER
1st & 2nd/Section 10	1st & 4th / Section 10	----
3rd & 4th/ Section 11	5th & 6th / Section 11	----
7th & 8th / Section 1	7th & 8th / Section 1	----
9th & 10th / Section 2	11th & 12th / Section 2	----
11th & 15th / Section 3	13th & 14th / Section 3	----
16th & 17th / Section 4	15th & 18th / Section 4	----
18th & 21st / Section 5	----	----
22nd & 23rd / Section 6	----	----
24th & 25th / Section 7	----	----
28th & 29th / Section 8	----	----
30th & 31st / Section 9	----	----

  Sweeping may continue beyond Nov. 18, weather permitting.
Please be aware of the posted signs.

24th DISTRICT PREPARES FOR WARM WEATHER....

 

"Rogers Park Cops Prepare for Warm Weather, Increased Crime"

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24th Police District

 

BROOKFIELD ZOO.....

 Dinosaurs Alive Exhibit 2009!

PLANT HANGERS ....

For Sale

Handcrafted wooden 'slat' hangers....$8.00

(Delivered in Rogers Park)

Can be used with almost any kind of porch, deck and fence.

Contact Mike at 773-465-2433

luckenbach@rcn.com