Atavia Reed
Reporter at Block Club Chicago
On the South Side beat @blockclubchi. Nosey by Nature. Words around town. Always talking film, music and books👩🏾💻
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2 weeks ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
WEST LAWN — A renovated Southwest Side Save A Lot grocery store reopened Wednesday, marking the final store to be completed by Ohio-based company Yellow Banana under a $13.5 million funding deal with the city. Local officials joined neighbors on a cloudy Wednesday to celebrate the grand reopening of West Lawn’s Save A Lot, 4439 W. 63rd St. The first 100 customers received a free bag of groceries.
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2 weeks ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
ENGLEWOOD — Corroded cars, broken-down trucks and dusty motorcycles have piled up on two lots in Englewood. On a block of bungalows and brick three-flat apartments, the lots, cluttered with about two dozen cars, stand out. Two small boats, one covered by a dirty tarp, rest near a shoddy gray trailer. Weeds, some knee-high, sprout between a chain-link fence surrounding the lots. Heaps of trash dot the site, attracting the occasional stray cat.
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3 weeks ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
AUBURN GRESHAM — Lorna Hicks was driving through Auburn Gresham when she looked out her window and saw two new apartment buildings decorating the South Side sky. The 72-year-old mother lived in a building owned by her son in West Garfield Park at the time, but she wanted to have space all to herself, she said. Hicks grew up in Bronzeville’s Robert Taylor Homes and currently attends church at Greater Harvest Missionary Baptist Church in Washington Park. She knows the South Side well, she said.
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3 weeks ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
WEST LAWN — Ohio-based company Yellow Banana reopened its final Save A Lot grocery store Monday on the Southwest Side — three weeks after city officials granted the grocer six months to continue renovations on its South and West side stores. Leaders at Yellow Banana gathered Monday in West Lawn to celebrate the “soft reopening” of the Save A Lot grocery store, 4439 W.
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1 month ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Virdell Scott needed a place to decompress after caring for her grandmother with dementia, so she went to Woodson Regional Library. Scott grew up rummaging through the shelves at the Washington Heights library. Her mother, Fannie Parker, used to take her there to find her next best read when she was a girl, Scott said.
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