Patrick Filbin

6 days ago | blockclubchicago.org | Patrick Filbin

LAKEVIEW — Over the past several years, the business corridor near Clark and Roscoe streets in Lakeview has been marked by an unusually high number of closures. Beloved neighborhood staples like Town Hall Pub, Pick Me Up Café and Redmond’s Ale House have all shut their doors since 2020, casualties of a one-two punch: the COVID-19 pandemic and the start of the Chicago Transit Authority’s massive Red and Purple Line Modernization project.

1 week ago | blockclubchicago.org | Patrick Filbin

LINCOLN PARK — A 28-year-old man was shot and killed Wednesday night in Lincoln Park. The shooting happened around 9:20 p.m. in the 800 block of West Lill Avenue, according to police. Officers responded to a call of a person shot and found the man on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his chest. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. A man and woman were seen running eastbound away from the scene of the shooting, police said.

1 week ago | blockclubchicago.org | Patrick Filbin

OLD TOWN — Less than a year after Dom’s Kitchen & Market abruptly shuttered both of its grocery stores in Chicago, a familiar business is set to take over the former Old Town location. The Fresh Market, a North Carolina-based grocery chain, has submitted a business license application to open at 1233 N. Wells St., according to the city’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection. The Old Town store will be the second Fresh Market to open in a former Dom’s location in the past year.

1 week ago | blockclubchicago.org | Patrick Filbin

OLD TOWN — After nearly a dozen community meetings, a handful of design revisions and more than a year’s worth of heated debate, Old Town is getting a new high-rise apartment building. On Wednesday, the City Council signed off on the Fern Hill-backed proposal for 1600 N. LaSalle Drive, clearing the way for the construction of a 30-story apartment building to begin later this year.

1 week ago | blockclubchicago.org | Patrick Filbin

LINCOLN PARK — Many of chef Mary Eder-McClure’s pastries at Lincoln Park’s Cafe Yaya are rooted in the nostalgic flavors of her youth, growing up in a vibrant, multicultural corner of Minneapolis. As a kid after school, Eder-McClure would wander into an Afghani bakery for a spinach puff one day and stop by a Mexican bakery for a churro the next.