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If you asked me to guess the three most-watched YoChicago videos during the last 30 days, I’d have guessed wrong on all of them. YouTube Analytics spares me the exercise of guessing, and serves up an exact view count for each of the videos, out of the 1,000s we’ve published, that are currently drawing viewers. ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 29, 2013
Storkline Furniture was once one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of infant and child furniture, but its sprawling factory at the bleak western edge of the Little Village / South Lawndale neighborhood has been vacant for years. FitzGerald Associates Architects, on behalf of Mercy Housing Lakefront, has developed a plan to transform the 218,000 square ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 26, 2012
Yesterday’s travels found me shooting video at a rental high-rise in the South Loop, viewing lofts in University Village, and checking out the outdoor art scene on the streets of Lawndale after a tour of 26th Street shops (video). My first stop in Lawndale was just east of Kedzie on 27th Street, a must-visit location ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 4, 2012
The January 2012 issue of Chicago Magazine features an important article for anyone interested in Chicago’s neighborhoods – Gangs and Politicians: An Unholy Alliance. David Bernstein and Noah Isackson paint a frightening picture of the influence of street gangs on Chicago politics and politicians and the extent to which Chicago’s law enforcement agencies tolerate the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 15, 2011
YoChicago’s videos at YouTube were watched more than 55,000 times during the past 30 days. Our video at the Home Alone house, featured above, received the most views during that period. The second most popular video was an introduction to the Gold Coast by Sergio & Banks’ Tina Culver. Reflecting the season, third place honors ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 11, 2011
Our video of a drive down 26th Street in Little Village has generated more than 15,000 views and scores of comments at YouTube – many of them suggestive of the kind of reception outsiders can look forward to in the area, and many of them simply deranged. Does the following comment, left earlier today, ring ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 3, 2011
Did you buy a home while the snow lay heavy on the ground following this winter’s blizzard? Rob and Amy Castaneda, a heroic couple who live in Little Village, bought in the 1999 blizzard. Mark Konkol of the Sun-Times tells their story: They dreamed of owning their own home and finally found the perfect place ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 3, 2011
Joe Zekas’ Block 37 walk-through may have been the most-viewed video on our YouTube channel in 2010, but it actually dates back to late 2009. The most popular video that was actually shot this year was my trip down 26th Street in Little Village, shot in mid-May. Traffic to the clip has picked up considerably ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on December 29, 2010
Santa and the elves from RAN Chicago visited City Hall before Christmas to bestow candy canes on aldermen who supported the Chicago Clean Power Ordinance, and lumps of coal on those who opposed it. More info is available at Clean Power Chicago. A musical tribute to the Fisk and Crawford coal-fired generating plants in Pilsen ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 26, 2010
The subplots and twists are mind-splintering in David Roeder’s report on a proposed not-a-flea-market at 3200 S Kedzie in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. The cast of characters includes Alderman Munoz, “disgraced former Alderman Ambrosio Medrano” and an attorney relating “a damned lie” that may well be the truth. A cynic might simplify the tale thusly: ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 28, 2010
After running out of shops to look at along 26th Street, I spent the rest of my time in Little Village driving around some of the residential streets located between 26th and the river. What I saw was a variety of home styles — especially two-flats, three-flats, and frame houses — but absolutely nothing resembling ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on May 19, 2010
Join me for a drive west along 26th Street, the heart of commerce and community in the predominantly Mexican neighborhood of Little Village. The importance of 26th Street’s stores and restaurants can’t be ignored — only the Michigan Avenue retail area generates more sales revenue on an annual basis.
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Posted by Joseph Askins on May 18, 2010
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