Molly DeVore
Reporter at Block Club Chicago
Covering the far Northwest side for @BlockClubCHI [email protected] @mollydevore.bsky.social IG: @writtenbymollyd
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blockclubchicago.org | Molly DeVore
JEFFERSON PARK — Northwest Side neighbors are reeling at the news that Jefferson Park’s Gale Street Inn has closed its doors after 62 years in business. Gale Street Inn, located at 4914 N. Milwaukee Ave. across from the Jefferson Park Transit Center, announced its closure on Wednesday evening in an Instagram video set to Bruce Cockburn’s “Last Night of the World.” A longer statement was posted to the restaurant’s Instagram on Thursday.
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blockclubchicago.org | Molly DeVore
JEFFERSON PARK — Ald. James Gardiner (45th) will no longer have pay a $20,000 fine after a hearing officer found the alderman did not violate the city’s ethics ordinance when he allegedly instructed a city employee to ticket one of his vocal critics. In October 2023, the Board of Ethics ruled the Far Northwest Side alderman committed 10 ethics violations and assessed $20,000 in fines after he ticketed Pete Czosnyka for having overgrown weeds.
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blockclubchicago.org | Molly DeVore
NEAR WEST SIDE — Andrew Sobotka stopped playing hockey in high school because, as a closeted gay player, he felt he didn’t belong. More than two decades later, Sobotka proudly hits the ice every week with a rainbow hockey stick in hand. Sobotka returned to the sport he loved in 2009 after he learned about the Chicago Gay Hockey Association, a group he’s since helped grow from a team of about 20 to nearly 100 players.
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blockclubchicago.org | Molly DeVore
NORWOOD PARK — Every June, a quiet residential neighborhood on the edge of the city becomes ground zero for the Gay Agenda — served up one pint or four-pack of tallboy cans at a time. Filled with eclectic items like a life-sized Leather Face animatronic, a mural depicting the Eye of Providence and a taxidermy wolf, Illuminated Brew Works has become a a funky, occult-themed oasis in Norwood Park.
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blockclubchicago.org | Molly DeVore
WEST LOOP — Chao Zhou assured his roommate he would be fine late last week after being summoned for an immigration court hearing in his pending political asylum case. “I texted him, ‘Hey, just in case something happens, send me your wife’s number,'” said Liam Kincaid, Zhou’s roommate. “He said, ‘Thanks, buddy, but it’s very peaceful here.'”But by midmorning, Zhou texted Kincaid that he had been arrested. Zhou, a Chinese national, has lived in the United States since 2019, Kincaid said.
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