Marc C. Monaghan

Chicago, Indiana, Michigan

Contributing Writer at Hyde Park Herald

Photographer, Writer and Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

City says Darrow Bridge will be preserved, but it might take years

1 week ago | hpherald.com | Marc C. Monaghan

The Chicago Department of Transportation will restore Jackson Park's condemned Darrow Bridge based on its 1895 design and reopen it, but agency officials said the process could take a couple of years. "I would ask that you provide a little more patience," said Tanera Adams, a CDOT project manager, as she faced members of the Jackson Park Advisory Council (JPAC) earlier this month. This wasn't the first time CDOT has given the park advisory council a timeline for the bridge's repair.
Four generations of artists get together at Hyde Park's Community Art Fair

2 weeks ago | hpherald.com | Marc C. Monaghan

Twenty-four years ago, Joyan Tang took a few pieces of her stained glass art to Artisans 21, an artist cooperative in the old Harper Court plaza. She had gone to meet with Laura Olszanowski, an organizer of Hyde Park's Community Art Fair - not to be confused with the 57th Street Art Fair, though it does run alongside it - in hopes that she could be an exhibitor.
Balkanske Igre celebrates 60 years of Eastern European music and dance

3 weeks ago | hpherald.com | Marc C. Monaghan

Shortly after wrapping their 58th annual Spring Festival two years ago, John and Galia Miloucheva Kuo started plans to bring the festival of Balkan music and dance back to Hyde Park. The couple, longtime festival organizers, wanted it to return to the University of Chicago, where it had been held for decades until moving to the suburbs amid Covid-19. The timing felt right - 2025 marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of Balkanske Igre, the Balkan dance group that runs the festival.
Volunteers tidy, bond at Nichols Park

3 weeks ago | hpherald.com | Marc C. Monaghan

On a brisk Saturday morning, a team of volunteers was hard at work in Nichols Park spreading wood chips around a playground, picking up trash and scrubbing graffiti off its benches. The sprucing, overseen by the Nichols Park Advisory Council (NPAC), was part of a citywide "It's Your Park Day" cleanup initiative. The annual event is organized by the Chicago Parks Foundation and marks the beginning of volunteer season in the city's public green spaces.
Griffin MSI union workers demand first contract

1 month ago | hpherald.com | Marc C. Monaghan

More than two years after Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) employees overwhelmingly voted to unionize, workers were out on the museum’s front steps Thursday evening demanding a first contract with management. "We want to show them that we mean business," said Langston Swiecki, a Griffin MSI employee and member of the union’s bargaining committee.
Hyde Park’s garden fair ‘the happiest place on the planet’

1 month ago | hpherald.com | Marc C. Monaghan

Joy Rosner, one of the principal organizers of the spring Hyde Park Garden Fair, tended to the steady stream of curious and focused plant buyers who stopped by her table of "little petunias," Angelonia and other potted plants Friday morning. "This is probably the happiest place on the planet today," Rosner said. The spring fair was taking place in Kimbark Plaza for the first time, having been booted from the Hyde Park Shopping Center to make way for expanded outdoor dining.
Doris Goodwin’s timeless civic values

1 month ago | hpherald.com | Marc C. Monaghan

"In the days of 1940 when Hitler swept across Western Europe, leaving only England standing alone, it looked then as if Western civilization and democracy itself was at issue," said Doris Kearns Goodwin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian. Goodwin’s words immediately quieted and enthralled several hundred people gathered in the Rubenstein Forum on a recent Thursday evening for the inaugural lecture of the University of Chicago’s Bowe-Stewart Lecture Series.
KOCO launches Senior Tenants Bill of Rights at 60-year anniversary

2 months ago | hpherald.com | Marc C. Monaghan

At its 60-year anniversary celebration earlier this month, the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO) put on a full-court press for a new proposal to beef up housing protections for older adults — a Senior Tenants’ Bill of Rights. The bill, in the works for several years, is the longtime community organization’s latest move in its campaign to ensure decent conditions, equitable treatment and respect in living facilities for older adults.
‘Summer’s coming up so you gotta look pretty’ - Hyde Park Academy, local organizations team up for Earth Day clean up

2 months ago | hpherald.com | Marc C. Monaghan

Shielded from the light morning drizzle in her apple-green raincoat, 1983 Hyde Park Academy graduate Anna M. Horn leaned over the school's flagpole planter and tamped the soil down around an Early Bird Catmint she had just put in the ground.
Jackson Park cherry blossoms return after 2-year break

2 months ago | hpherald.com | Marc C. Monaghan

Cloudy. Periods of rain early. Low 58F. Winds S at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.. Cloudy. Periods of rain early. Low 58F. Winds S at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.