Category: Chicago – Archer Heights

. By Mary Stanek Your correspondent in Archer Heights and West Elsdon 3808 W. 57th Place •  (773) 517-7796 . If you take a ride down Pulaski Road in the West Elsdon community, please notice the street poles. They are decorated for the holiday season, which is a nice touch. Also, it’s time to celebrate […]

. By Mary Stanek Your correspondent in Archer Heights and West Elsdon 3808 W. 57th Place •  (773) 517-7796 . Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I cannot believe I am saying that already. This Saturday our Oliver will be visiting 23rd Ward Ald. Silvana Tabares’ office at 3954 W. 63rd St. There will be a pet […]

. By Mary Stanek Your correspondent in Archer Heights and West Elsdon 3808 W. 57th Place •  (773) 517-7796 . On 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 5, we all set our clocks back an hour for the end of Daylight Savings Time. We finally get that extra hour of sleep that we gave up in spring. […]

. By Mary Stanek Your correspondent in Archer Heights and West Elsdon 3808 W. 57th Place •  (773) 517-7796 You can ring my bell, bell, bell, ring my bell! We have had our house phone (land line) for years, paying monthly for it. The past few years the only calls we receive for the most […]

. By Mary Stanek Your correspondent in Archer Heights and West Elsdon 3808 W. 57th Place •  (773) 284-7394 Well, the weather has turned to fall, along with the sunrise being later and sunset earlier. It is sweatshirt, warm socks and jacket time – goodbye capris and sandals. With that comes preparation for Halloween. Sts. […]

. Rodriguez accuses colleagues of ‘anti-American’ attitudes . (From the September 29, 2023 Greater Southwest News-Herald) By Tim Hadac A Southwest Side alderman told a group of local business leaders last week that Chicago needs more, not fewer migrants from the nation’s southern border. “I make the argument that we need more migrants in the […]

. By Mary Stanek Your correspondent in Archer Heights and West Elsdon 3808 W. 57th Place •  (773) 284-7394 Get ready to “fall” for many events happening in our community this autumn. First off, this Sunday, Oct. 8th is a free Flamenco guitar and dance show at Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, 6500 S. Pulaski. […]

. By Mary Stanek Your correspondent in Archer Heights and West Elsdon 3808 W. 57th Place •  (773) 284-7394 . Well, it is October. I started buying the Halloween candy, which I hid in the depths of my closet until Oct. 31. Next up: Christmas trees. One thing I always ponder is, if pumpkin spice […]

. By Mary Stanek Your correspondent in Archer Heights and West Elsdon 3808 W. 57th Place •  (773) 284-7394 Happy mid-September! I was fascinated when my husband did some ancestry research and found out he had a great grandfather, Simon. The cousins and him all seemed to be in agreement that Simon was a Jewish […]

. By Mary Stanek Your correspondent in Archer Heights and West Elsdon 3808 W. 57th Place •  (773) 284-7394 If there is one thing my father taught me that I will always appreciate, is to know where I was born and raised: on the South Side, which explains why I am a White Sox fan […]