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Friggin’ Freegans
The stairway to what is sometimes heaven Well something finally gave as the saying goes. As the year plus of living at Chez Allen-Grooms has progressed, the roommate and I have seen the occupants of...
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Los Comales: An odd podge
Green neon makes me feel like I’m eating in Vegas It would seem appropriate if I had a torrid love affair with Los Comales. Years ago — before I knew Pilsen was Pilsen — a friend and I made the journey...
View ArticleComfort food at the Steak ‘n’ Egger
When I first moved to Chicago, before I had a job or even a place of my own, I stayed in a small apartment at Ashland and Cermak with a few friends from college. Having little money, in those first...
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P-Town texture
In between more substantial posts, I thought I’d share some shots taken around that typify the look and feel of Pilsen — at least the kind(s) I’m attracted to. Why hide the caulk? So palatial! Well...
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Who we are: FREE event tonight!
Who We Are: TONIGHT! Tonight join me, La Princesa de Pilsen for a the dopest party in the barrio! “WHO WE ARE”, a night of music, fashion and art presented by Electriqsoul Hideout Sept 2nd at the...
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Things I love about Pilsen #1
Recently someone told me that they just didn’t go to Pilsen. I of course immediately became defensive. Apparently this person had been jumped by gangbangers and just decided to stay out of the area...
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What I love about Pilsen #2
Vintage Galore! The vintage business in Pilsen is skyrocketing! We have Pilsen Vintage and Thrift, pictured above, Knee Deep Vintage, Comet Vintage and Rex all along 18th St. And our thrift stores are...
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From the makers of street art
Comes door art! Imagine coming home and putting a key in this beauty. I have to imagine there’s a certain ballooning of self-esteem knowing even the entryway to your actual living space is tricked out....
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My Fair Laundromat
Electric blue roo-galoo So woe is me. I’d assumed for the longest that the lack of on-site laundry was a Pilsen reality (like missing closet space). But as I’ve made more friends in the surrounding...
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C’est fini! Or rather todo se ha cumplido!
The lady has arrived! And what a vision she is! This to me epitomizes the culture and creative talent innate to Pilsen’s landscape. I find this work more or less perfect (if only for more detailing on...
View ArticleRep. Luis Gutierrez to visit Pilsen, explain deportation policy changes
The following story from the progressive-leaning Chicago blog Progress Illinois says that U.S. representative Luis Gutierrez, a well-known advocate for immigration rights, will be visiting Pilsen this...
View ArticleFree literary event at Pilsen public library
WBEZ recently posted some preliminary information about an upcoming event at a Chicago Public library branch located in Pilsen: One Book, One Chicago brings people together around books, and often...
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Home in store
Store fronts like these in Pilsen can often give the appearance that they could actually be the front of a store. This is a misconception. Actually, unused business leases are taken at times by local...
View ArticlePilsen industrial district made room for arts. Now…apartments?
WBEZ posted a story yesterday about a group of mostly empty brick buildings in Pilsen that Alderman Danny Solis hopes to transform into “work-live” apartment spaces: The towering brick buildings that...
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Get gelato at Al Teatro
Much more to see inside I assure you. I was dying for these tin ceilings though. I had the pleasure an eve not long ago to wander about 18th during a community restaurant tour. Food hubs of every...
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Urban Heirloom 08
New to P-Town’s streets is this astounding creature advocating for cross-cultural acceptance — perhaps (entirely) without its own knowledge. This certainly appears to be a case of...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists call for end to coal-fired power in Chicago
Fox News Latino has this update about the efforts of environmental groups to shut down the Fisk and Crawford coal plants located in Little Village and Pilsen: Environmental groups on Tuesday presented...
View ArticleBike the 25th Ward this Sunday
Ride your bike through Pilsen with Alderman Danny Solis this weekend during the second year of “Bike the 25th Ward.” More information can be found on Danny Solis’s website: Join Alderman Solis and...
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Chicken geniuses on blue island
This is hysterical — like a Norman Rockwell version of food marketing On what I’ve come to know is called ‘Welfare Tuesday,’ fair peoples of the Pilsen area congregate in order to clamor for fried...
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