5/11/10
While to most, this is just another bank failure but if Shorebank fails it will wipe away over 40 years of history and progress...
2/26/10
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...
2/25/10
Jeff Heilbrunn wrote the book on block clubs. Literally. These neighborhood organizations have existed for decades, but Jeff, with the help of Builders Center...
2/24/10
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 markets,...
2/23/10
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,...
2/22/10
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...
2/18/10
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...
12/14/09
The area we call the South Triangle is big enough to contain several South Side “neighborhoods for the rest of us.” Within the boundaries...
11/2/09
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...