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The New York Times has taken a look, in print and in video, at Chatham, a neighborhood long considered by many to be the jewel of Chicago’s South Side. The Times’ piece is an informative follow-on to the series of articles the Sun-Times ran on Chatham 18 months ago. Worlee Glover of the Concerned Citizens ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 8, 2013
The Chicago Sun-Times recently ran a high-profile series of articles about the changes in Chatham, a neighborhood that has long been considered the crown jewel of Chicago’s African-American community. After reading the articles I reached out to Worlee Glover, a man who knows Chatham well and who operates the Concerned Citizens of Chatham page at ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 14, 2011
The Chicago Sun-Times recently ran a high-profile series of articles about the changes in Chatham, a neighborhood that has long been considered the crown jewel of Chicago’s African-American community. After reading the articles I reached out to Worlee Glover, a man who knows Chatham well and who operates the Concerned Citizens of Chatham page at ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 12, 2011
Earlier today I visited the rooftop sundeck at 1200 N Lake Shore Dr with Coldwell Banker’s Meladee Hughes. The views were quite a contrast with the home I met her at in Libertyville yesterday morning. My visit to Lake Shore Drive followed a tour of Chatham earlier this afternoon. What a wonderful city we live ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 11, 2011
The recently-listed, recently-rehabbed 5-bedroom, 3-bath bungalow at 8220 S Prairie Ave in Chatham boasts of “everything new” – and promises buyers “new a/c at closing.” The home, on a classic tree-lined Chatham block with broad grassy parkways, is listed for sale at $204,900. As recently as 4 years ago it carried a $412,800 mortgage. That ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 2, 2011
Several years ago Barry Pearce and I sat down with the late Dempsey Travis, one of Chicago’s most accomplished citizens, for a wide-ranging discussion. In the above video we talked about his home community, Chatham. Chatham was the crown jewel of Chicago’s African-American community, a carefully manicured, obsessively maintained, aspirational home to middle- and upper-middle ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 27, 2011
Four-and-a-half years have passed since I shot the above streetscape of the Chatham Club at 89th and Indiana. The scene was quite a change from my first visit to the site, thirty years earlier, when it housed an A.J. Canfield bottling plant. The Chatham Club isn’t in Chatham, but it was inspired in part by ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 30, 2011
In a 3-part video interview, State Rep Marlow Colvin provides a great overview of Chatham, the South Side community where he grew up. In the second part of the interview, above, Colvin outlines the factors that make Chatham special. Part one is a brief introduction to Chatham, and the third part suggests what other communities ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 4, 2011
While to most, this is just another bank failure but if Shorebank fails it will wipe away over 40 years of history and progress of Chatham… Although we now have several commercial banking organizations entering the community, the loss of a true “community bank” like ShoreBank which makes decisions based on what is best for ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on May 11, 2010
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