. Kathy Headley Your correspondent in Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor 6610 S. Francisco • (773) 776-7778 . Earlier this month was the Fifth Lithuanian Documentary Film Festival, with distinguished guests from Lithuania and other parts of the United States visiting the neighborhood. They held a photo session in the editorial office of the oldest […]
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Work moving forward at Marquette Park
. Kathy Headley Your correspondent in Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor 6610 S. Francisco • (773) 776-7778 . In the March 29 edition of the Greater Southwest News-Herald, I wrote a story about a town hall meeting at Marquette Park, we learned of some of the upcoming plans the Park District has for Marquette. Well, […]
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Bingo at St. Clare was something to yell about
. Kathy Headley Your correspondent in Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor 6610 S. Francisco • (773) 776-7778 . Recently I mentioned a bingo fundraiser the Augustinian Young Adults of St. Rita of Cascia Parish were holding. This was their first attempt at a bingo and they put on a really nice event. Held in the […]
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Chicago Lawn native’s book is ‘off the hook’
. Longtime journalist shares humor columns . By Tim Hadac Nancy (Emerson) Besonen has made a career as a news reporter and humor columnist for a weekly paper in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. But her roots are in Chicago Lawn, and it showed during a recent conversation. Like most true Southwest Siders, she didn’t call Marquette […]
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St. Rita getting a fresh coat of paint
. By Kathy Headley Your correspondent in Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor 6610 S. Francisco • (773) 776-7778 . If you attend Mass at St. Rita of Cascia Parish, you already have seen the scaffolding going up as the parish prepares to give the huge church a facelift. Just as when the church was first […]
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Things are still sweet at 77th and Western
. By Kathy Headley Your correspondent in Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor 6610 S. Francisco • (773) 776-7778 . As I was eating the ears off a chocolate-covered marshmallow bunny the other day, my mind drifted to candies, and chocolate in particular, of the past. While it’s hard to find a good, old-fashioned soda/ice cream […]
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Things are looking bright at Lith Youth Center
. By Kathy Headley Your correspondent in Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor 6610 S. Francisco • (773) 776-7778 . Cleaning, restoration and remodeling continues at the Chicago Lithuanian Youth Center on Claremont Avenue. New programs have been well attended and recent classes, Like Making Your Own Bacon Buns, have sold out quickly. Thanks to recent […]
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A corner of confusion on Kedzie
. By Kathy Headley Your correspondent in Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor 6610 S. Francisco • (773) 776-7778 . Over at 87th and Kedzie, it’s just one month shy of seven years since the Ultra Foods closed on the northwest corner. It will soon be 10 years since Luther South High School closed on the […]
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Keeping kids in the gym, off the streets
. By Kathy Headley Your correspondent in Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor 6610 S. Francisco • (773) 776-7778 . A while back I wrote a story about a man working in South America, reading a newspaper from back home; and saddened by what he read about youth violence, vowed that when he came back, he […]
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Weather cooperated for Marine’s return
. By Kathy Headley Your correspondent in Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor 6610 S. Francisco • (773) 776-7778 . After the surprising snow coming down like a blizzard for a while last Friday night, I was especially glad to see the sun Saturday morning, for Patrick Downs (St. Rita High School class of 2018) was […]