The Handmade Market is a unique event to connect the makers of beautiful things to people who appreciate the unique and handmade.
The Empty Bottle starts serving at noon, so feel free to shop with mimosas in hand. (They do encourage relaxed shopping.) You can also grab brunch at the tasty Bite Café next door.
The Empty Bottle (venue info)
1035 N. Western Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60622 (to plan directions)
Free. . .free. . .free. . .
21+ and parents with kids (same goes for sellers)
The next public hearing on citywide redistricting will be tomorrow night Wednesday, January 11, at 6:00 p.m. at DePaul University’s Cortelyou Commons located at 2324 N. Fremont Street. Metered parking is generally available on Halsted, Sheffield or Fullerton. You can also park in the Sheffield Parking Garage, 2331 N. Sheffield. There is limited parking available on side streets, and much of the area is residential permit parking only so please read all the signs when parking.
There are presently THREE competing maps that redraw the city wards. The census determines the number of people in each ward, but aldermen, through the competing maps and with community input, determine where the boundaries are to be located.
After six public hearings around the city in the late part of 2011, there will be at least four additional hearings in the next few weeks. The first is at DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus on January 11th.
If you do attend the public hearings on the remapping and you wish to make a statement about the map as an individual or by representing an organization, you can make that statement during the meeting or handing in a written statement at the meeting. You can also submit your statement to Ald. Mell:
Call 773-478-8040
Email rfmell@33rdward.org or
Mail Chairman Richard Mell, Rules Committee, 3649 N. Kedzie Ave., Chicago, IL 60618
Please take your tree to one of the many tree recycling locations available around the city instead!
From Saturday, January 7, 2012 through Friday, January 20, 2012, Chicago residents will be able to drop off their used live holiday trees at one of 23 unmanned locations citywide.
Trees will be mulched so that they can be reused as a fragrant mulch/ground cover on City landscaping projects or by residents in their backyard gardens. This will keep trees from being landfilled and allow an environmentally friendly reuse.
A limited amount of mulch will be left at these sites for pick-up by residents beginning on Friday January 13th. Please remove all lights, ornaments, tinsel and accessories before dropping off your tree. These items can damage the woodchipper machinery and will prevent reuse.
Nearby Locations:
For more information on all the city locations – see this flyer from the city.
Alderman Moreno is hosting a Community Meeting Monday, January 9th , 6:30pm at Commercial Park Fieldhouse (1845 W. Rice Street) to hear a proposal to extend the Chicago Avenue pedestrian zone between Wood St and Damen Avenue. Please mark your calendar so that you can attend this meeting and understand the implications of making such a zoning change.
Questions for the Alderman?
Email: ward01@cityofchicago.org
Phone: (773)278-0101
Stoplight Request at Chicago & Hoyne
The request for a stoplight at Hoyne & Chicago is one that goes back a couple of years in our neighborhood. You can read the minutes from our July 2011 membership meeting for more details of a conversation we had with the offices of the 1st and 32n wards. The topic was brought up again this month in light of the ward redistricting. Supposedly both wards have said they will each commit to 1/2 the budget for stoplight, from money from their own menu funds if CDOT does not fund it. People continue to complain about the dangerous crossing for pedestrians at this intersection and we will check in with the Aldermen in January.
Proposed extension of the “Pedestrian Street” designation for Chicago Avenue
This news comes from our neighbors at the EVA. 1st Ward Alderman Proco Joe Moreno, and 32nd Ward Alderman Scott Waugespack are proposing to extend Chicago Avenue’s “pedestrian street” designation from Ashland Avenue west to Damen Avenue. It now stops at Wood Street. A pedestrian street in Chicago zoning parlance requires storefronts close to the sidewalk and bans strip malls, drive-through’s, auto lots, gas stations, car washes and self-storage warehouses. Division Street is a pedestrian street between Milwaukee and Leavitt. We support the EVA and the Aldermen in this proposal and would like to suggest extending the pedestrian street designation all the way to Western Avenue. We will follow up with the EVA.
Liquor License Requests in the 1st and 32nd Wards
There has been a lot of talk about two different businesses located on the eastern edge of our neighborhood applying for permits to sell liquor. The first location is the Augusta-Damen Food Mart on the NE corner of Augusta & Damen Avenues. 1st Ward Alderman Proco Joe Moreno lifted a package liquor sales moratorium that was in place along Damen Avenue from Division to Augusta, based on signatures collected by the Food Mart in favor of liquor sales at that location. This means that the establishment may now apply for a license to sell liquor. More on the application process to follow.
The second location that has supposedly shown interest in selling package liquor is the new Red Apple convenience store at the corner of Chicago & Damen. As of this meeting, they had not yet applied for a license.
According to the City of Chicago’s website (and also summarized nicely on Everyblock.com) an establishment must apply for a license and go through the following notification process:
As far as we know, neither establishment has filed any application. We will bring this topic up for discussion at the next UVNA meeting, possibly with representatives from either or both businesses, in January, and if applications are filed before that time we will inform all UVNA members.
Blue Recycling Bins
We’ve been told that our neighborhood will be part of a pilot program beginning in January , to test out private-company recycling with Waste Management. We’ll let you know more when we hear more.
Building Permit Review for 2112 W. Haddon
We will follow up with the folks who are interested in making some changes to this address to allow for a handicap entrance and hope that we can review their plans at the January meeting.
Ukrainian Village/Preservation Chicago Spring Church Walk
We met with some enthusiastic folks from Preservation Chicago at Alderman Moreno’s Thursday night event at Boundary a couple of weeks ago, and discussed the possibility of hosting an architectural tour of our neighborhood churches sometime next spring or summer. They were interested in co-sponsoring this event with us – lots of great ideas. We would like to get a committee together to meet with Preservation Chicago and organize a small walking tour of our historic churches. If you would be interested in helping out in any small way in such an event, please send an email to secretary@uvna.org and let us know.
Winter All-Neighborhoods Party
We’ve reached out to the various neighborhood associations that border Ukrainian Village to see who is interested is trying to gather all of together for a little social get-together. The response has been good, but we have not yet set a date, time , or place. More to come!
Helping out with the UVNA
The UVNA is a small neighborhood organization made up of volunteers. We’re always looking for people who are interested in getting more involved in their neighborhood, and can use help organize events, work on the newsletter, or the event calendar on the website, etc. If you’re interested in volunteering with the UVNA drop us a line at info@uvna.org
