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Heart of Italy, a walk down Oakley Ave
More restaurant reviews - "they're all good" - from a retired waitress as I walk the brief stretch of Oakley Ave billed as the Heart of Italy. [...]
Saint Joseph’s day in the Heart of Italy
I walk into Miceli's Deli and learn that it's Saint Joseph's day - and that all the restaurants sin the area are good. [...]
An elevated view of northwest Lake View and Ravenswood
A view from the Brown Line, looking north and east as the train leaves Paulina, passes the currently closed Addison stop, and continues towards Irvin [...]
A walk through Wrightwood Neighbors, Chicago, Part V
Jeff Kerr, a local real estate broker, walks us through an overview of his Lincoln Park neighborhood, also known to some as West DePaul. [...]
A walk through Wrightwood Neighbors, Chicago, Part IV
Jeff Kerr, a local real estate broker, walks us through an overview of his Lincoln Park neighborhood, also known to some as West DePaul. [...]
A walk through Wrightwood Neighbors, Chicago, Part III
Jeff Kerr, a local real estate broker, walks us through an overview of his Lincoln Park neighborhood, also known to some as West DePaul. [...]
A walk through Wrightwood Neighbors, Chicago, Part II
Jeff Kerr, a local real estate broker, walks us through an overview of his Lincoln Park neighborhood, also known to some as West DePaul. [...]
A walk through Wrightwood Neighbors, Chicago, Part I
Jeff Kerr, a local real estate broker, walks us through an overview of his Lincoln Park neighborhood, also known to some as West DePaul. [...]
Dempsey Travis, on housing, Harold Washington and more
Travis talks about his best friend, former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, about housing opportunities in Chatham, and more. [...]
Dempsey Travis, philanthropy and early influences
Eighty-seven year old Dempsey Travis is an extraordinary man who's led an extraordinary life. In this part of our interview, he htalks about some of [...]
Dempsey Travis, on Chatham and racial segregation in Chicago
Eighty-seven year old real estate developer Dempsey Travis talks about racism, housing segregation in Chicago, and the Chatham neighborhood he's live [...]
Dempsey Travis, on Chatham, Washington Park and the Olympics
Legendary Chicago entrepreneur and author Dempsey J. Travis talks about his home neighborhood of Chatham, some of the nearby neighborhoods, and the i [...]
Dempsey Travis, Chatham Park Place, Chicago
Meet 87-year old real estate developer, author, musician (and so much more) Dempsey Travis, at his home in Chatham Park Place. The final phase of thi [...]
RiverHouse, Chicago, condos on the river
This 84-unit development is in Albany Park, but just across the street from Ravenswood Manor and over the river from Lincoln Square. More to the poi [...]
A bit of Burnside, Chicago
A few scenes from one of Chicago's south side neighborhoods - ranging from the solidly middle-class to the solidly seedy. [...]
Chatham Village Square, Chicago
A walk around this successful new shopping center, anchored by Target, at the northwest corner of East 87th St and South Cottage Grove Ave. [...]
A drive through Chicago’s Pill Hill
Pill Hill resident Fallon Russell guides YoChicago on a drive through this affluent, largely African-American neighborhood. She talks about life in P [...]
Chatham Food Center, a Chicago neighborhood institution
Join us for a brief walk through one of the fewer than two dozen African-American owned supermarkets in the entire United States, and meet its owner, [...]
A walk through Ravenswood Manor, Chicago
Chris Moran, a 20-year resident of the neighborhood, takes us to the new Francisco Brown Line stop, down the 2900 block of Eastwood to Ravenswood Man [...]
Celebrating the life of Vernie Joseph French, Sr
Vernie Joseph French, Sr, was an extraordinary man who died recently at age 85.
We were at St Clotilde Church, in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood, [...]