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Quote of the day: Wiping away 40 years of progress in Chatham
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...
Al [...]
Touring South Shore: High schools and heavyweights
The Nation of Islam's presence in South Shore has been so significant that, as a child, Jeff Heilbrunn's wife played around with the Fruit of Islam [...]
Touring South Shore: bungalows and block clubs
Jeff Heilbrunn wrote the book on block clubs. Literally. These neighborhood organizations have existed for decades, but Jeff, with the help of Build [...]
Touring South Shore: Terror Town's troubles
For South Shore to rebound, someone will have address the problems of "Terror Town," an area plagued with boarded-up buildings and open-air drug mar [...]
Touring South Shore: Life on the lakefront
Even with the economic hurdles South Shore will have to clear in the coming years, there's still a lot to envy about the neighborhood, including its [...]
Touring South Shore: A neighborhood native's first trip to the old Country Club
If you don't know much about South Shore's history, you might be surprised to learn that a neighborhood native like Jeff Heilbrunn had never been in [...]
Touring South Shore, Part 1: History and the Highlands
Our link to RedEye's "next hot 'hood" article generated a lot of comments, some of which touched on the present and future of the South Shore on the [...]
Neighborhoods for the rest of us: South Triangle
The area we call the South Triangle is big enough to contain several South Side "neighborhoods for the rest of us." Within the boundaries of the Dan [...]
Neighborhoods for the rest of us: Grand Crossing
Spend more than a minute Googling “Greater Grand Crossing,” and you’ll surely come across stories of a terrible train wreck at the intersection of t [...]
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