Marc C. Monaghan

Chicago, Indiana, Michigan

Contributing Writer at Hyde Park Herald

Photographer, Writer and Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

Balkanske Igre celebrates 60 years of Eastern European music and dance

4 days 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

5 days 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 week 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’

3 weeks 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

1 month 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

1 month 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

1 month 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.
‘Hands Off’ protest draws thousands downtown

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

Waving placards with slogans excoriating President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, scores of Hyde Park, Kenwood, Woodlawn and South Shore residents were among the almost 30,000 who marched through the Loop Saturday afternoon as part of a nationwide day of protest. Organized by Indivisible Chicago, the Chicago Federation of Labor, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant Rights and other groups, the rally was one of more than 1,200 protests taking place simultaneously across the United States that day.
'This was home to him' - friends and family celebrate life of longtime Jimmy's owner

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

Jan Callahan stood near the old wooden bar inside the west room of the Woodlawn Tap and mingled with the convivial crowd of colleagues, friends and family gathered to celebrate the life of her late husband, Bill. "This was home to him," Jan Callahan said. Bill Callahan tended bar at the Woodlawn Tap, a watering hole better known around the neighborhood as Jimmy’s, for more than 30 years before purchasing it with his brother in 1999.