Beverly

After selling out all 12 fall and winter performances earning the praise of local theatergoers," Neil Giuntoli’s “Hizzoner” is coming back to the Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th St. (111th and south Western Avenue), Chicago, for three weekends in June.

The critically acclaimed biography/drama of legendary Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, “Hizzoner” is a gripping play that takes a personal look at Daley and his 21 years as Mayor.

By Elizabeth Riley and Chloe Wiley
Medill Reports - Chicago

It's afternoon in nearby Englewood, and on one block, kids fill the streets, laughing and riding their bikes. In a halfway house nearby, four registered sex offenders are inside, watching TV or sleeping.

This is a common scenario in this low-income community, in which more than 300 sex offenders live.

The Beverly Area Planning Association’s 31st Annual Ridge Run kicks off on Memorial Day, Mon., May 26, with its new 10K course introduced last year and certified by USA Track and Field.

The 10K run begins at 8 a.m., the youth mile for children ages 6 through 12 begin at 8:10 a.m., and the 5K run/walk begins at 9:30 a.m. All races will start and finish at Ridge Park, 97th and Longwood Drive.

By Elizabeth Riley
Medill Reports - Chicago

For many Chicagoans, the warmth of home is found in a bungalow. Bungalows are memories of baking chocolate chip cookies at grandma's house, block parties on Independence Day, the smell of babies and friendly, familiar, smiling faces. They are constant reminders of the past.

"People long for the kinds of things they remember as children," said realtor Mark Ahlheim about homebuyers and their attraction to bungalows.

By Nafis Ahmed
Medill Reports - Chicago

Retired police officer Gerald McLaughlin was vacationing in Mexico with his wife when he realized he couldn't feel his face.

The 63-year-old Portage Park native was standing at a hotel bar the evening of March 12 when his beverage began to spill out of his mouth.

"I took a sip, and it felt like my lips were totally full of Novocain," McLaughlin said. "The liquid went in and just came right back out."

Sooner than you think school will let out for summer, and parents will be frazzled about keeping their children busy and productive.

The Beverly Arts Center can keep young minds learning, creating and having fun during its Summer Arts Experience, a top-of-the-line interdisciplinary art camp offering music, drama, dance, ceramics, computers, film and visual arts for children age 5 to 12 years in five two-week sessions.

The Southwest Observer is commemorating its one-year anniversary, kicked off by the annual South Side Irish Parade.

West Beverly native and professional journalist Michael Fielding and Web designer Steve Delmont joined nearly 120 other entrants in the 30th annual South Side Irish Parade, marching proudly down Western Avenue before more than 250,000 onlookers March 9.

The Bagpipes and Drums of the Chicago Police Department's Emerald Society - which participates annually at the South Side Irish Parade - stopped by TR's Pub in Mount Greenwood a few hours after the 30th annual parade concluded March 9. This is a clip of the group's moving performance for the hometown crowd.