Did it close due to location, crime, politics or lack of business?
What we do know for certain, is that it left another large storefront empty in the struggling Gateway Centre Plaza. Note: Storefront 1751A has been closed ever since (over two years ago). Here is the story:
March 30, 2010
Movie Meltdown: Another Hollywood Video Closes Up http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/89335157.html
Another round of local closures for Hollywood Video. The parent company filed for chapter 11 in February. Now more local stores are closing their doors. Fawn Hernandez isn't happy the Hollywood Video in Pasco is shutting down
March 29, 2010
Bankruptcy closes Racine's Hollywood Video http://www.journaltimes.com/business/local/article_ab689d1a-3b90-11df-a00b-001cc4c03286.html
Racine's only Hollywood Video store is now a victim of a corporate bankruptcy filing and will permanently close this spring. The local Hollywood Video store, 4700 Washington Ave., will close in about six to eight weeks, an employee said Monday before referring other questions to the corporate media department.
Chicago – March 15, 2010 - The Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society will host its Annual House Walk on Sunday, May 2, 2010 from 12 Noon to 5:00 p.m.
This year’s tour will highlight homes surrounding Indian Boundary Park, including the notable Park Castles and Park Gables apartment buildings.
Registration for the house walk is available at www.rpwrhs.org or by calling (773) 764-4078. Admission is $25 for society members and $30 for non-members.
A discounted rate of $20 for members and $25 for non-members will be offered through April 25. Day-of registration will be available at the Indian Boundary Park Cultural Center, 2500 West Lunt Ave. beginning at 12 Noon. The last tour will start at 3:30 p.m.
Several units of the Park Castles and Park Gables will be open for the tour as well as the buildings’ spectacular Art Deco swimming pools. The structures grace the eastern and northern boundary of the park – a magnificent group of Gothic and Tudor Revival style structures built in the late 1920s by developers Gubbins, O’Donnell & Blietz.
Indian Boundary Park was opened in 1922 as the centerpiece of the Ridge Avenue Park District. The 13-acre park was designed as a pastoral landscape with picturesque gardens, a lagoon with a small island, rolling lawns, and meandering paths. Its field house, now the Indian Boundary Park Cultural Center, was designed by prominent architect Clarence Hatzfeld, and is noted for its unusual combination of Tudor Revival design and Native American images and sculptures.
Several other homes near the park owned by notable 1920s personalities will be included in the tour. The Indian Boundary area is a hidden gem on the north side, with an abundance of historically and architecturally significant buildings and landscapes.
A new exhibit in the park’s cultural center, A Park is Your Front Yard: Indian Boundary Park and the Gubbins, McDonnell & Blietz Co-ops, 1915-1929 will be open to tour participants on May 2.
The Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society was formed in 1975 to preserve the history of Rogers Park and West Ridge as a vital part of the City of Chicago, and to provide interactive education about these communities to the public.
Youth between ages 13-15 are participating in 'Inner City Hoops' basketball tournaments every Friday at the Willye B. White Park Community Center. The first event was Friday, March 12th and will be held every Friday, with the last event being April 23rd. The event begins at 5:00 pm and lasts until approximately 7:30 pm.
Throughout the duration of the 'Inner City Hoops' tournament, the Park Advisory Council will be operating a concession stand, selling hot dogs, chips, cookies, bottled water to raise funds. All proceeds will go to help fund after school programs and summer camp for underprivileged children. Stop in, catch a tournament, and enjoy a hot dog or just donate to the kids fund.
Through it's fund raising efforts the Council offered 80% discount stocking stuffers for the Winter Holiday so kids could attend park activities while on break. The 80% discount was carried into the winter Park District program session and will continue with the spring program session. Program sessions are 10 weeks and the Spring 2010 session runs from March 29th thru June 6th.
Willye B. White Park and Recreation Center 1610 W. Howard Street Chicago, IL. 60626
S: I met this woman on the Morse platform tonight, she just lost her job, shes looking to move out of her 1400 apt downtown to a 700 apt in rogers park She said how she was worried about rogers park at night, and shes been mugged before, so shes probably not going to move to rogers park , but edgewater or andersonville instead
me: she will probably feel better in andersonville rogers park is still rough
S: yeah, i suggested, if she has been mugged before and she still lives w/ that fear, she better try andersonville i gave her my card, i hope she sends me an email or a connection on linkedin, she was very nice
me: it is too bad that it has to be this way in rogers park
"To get my support, Show me the money" - Alderman Joe Moore as he pushed an empty white envelope across the table toward Bill Morton at his Jarvis Square office. (2006)
"What do you expect, This is City Hall" - Alderman Joe Moore to Bill Morton and the Citizens for the Adelphi Theater in City Council Chambers (2006)
"This is the guy who said I took a bribe" - Alderman Joe Moore to his wife Barbara when when noticing Bill Morton was in the room (2009)
While I terribly dislike developers that demolish beautiful historic, culturally significant buildings and ones that destroy our neighborhood by leaving dangerous unsecure holes in their wake... There is something to be said about developers who do their business legally and are being pressured by Alderman Joe Moore for campaign contributions under threat of being run out of town.
It's hard to take a stand when your livelihood is on the line, I'm sure, but isn't there something that can be done about this?
I've spoken with a great number of developers, and they have told me that they would run Joe out on a rail if they could, but they feel that the bully can't be beaten.
There will be a spring concert, Monday, March 22 at 6:30 PM at the Willye B. White Recreation Center. The concert will feature the youth who are participating in the P.A.U.S.E. music program. They have learned to read and play music after school and are presenting their second concert.
Please stop in and applaud the hard work of both students and instructor!
Light refreshments will be served following the concert.
Willye White Park Community Room 1610 W. Howard Street Chicago IL 60626
Chicago – March 15, 2010 - The Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society will host its Annual House Walk on Sunday, May 2, 2010 from 12 Noon to 5:00 p.m.
This year’s tour will highlight homes surrounding Indian Boundary Park, including the notable Park Castles and Park Gables apartment buildings.
Registration for the house walk is available at www.rpwrhs.org or by calling (773) 764-4078. Admission is $25 for society members and $30 for non-members.
A discounted rate of $20 for members and $25 for non-members will be offered through April 25. Day-of registration will be available at the Indian Boundary Park Cultural Center, 2500 West Lunt Ave. beginning at 12 Noon. The last tour will start at 3:30 p.m.
Several units of the Park Castles and Park Gables will be open for the tour as well as the buildings’ spectacular Art Deco swimming pools. The structures grace the eastern and northern boundary of the park – a magnificent group of Gothic and Tudor Revival style structures built in the late 1920s by developers Gubbins, O’Donnell & Blietz.
Indian Boundary Park was opened in 1922 as the centerpiece of the Ridge Avenue Park District. The 13-acre park was designed as a pastoral landscape with picturesque gardens, a lagoon with a small island, rolling lawns, and meandering paths. Its field house, now the Indian Boundary Park Cultural Center, was designed by prominent architect Clarence Hatzfeld, and is noted for its unusual combination of Tudor Revival design and Native American images and sculptures.
Several other homes near the park owned by notable 1920s personalities will be included in the tour. The Indian Boundary area is a hidden gem on the north side, with an abundance of historically and architecturally significant buildings and landscapes.
A new exhibit in the park’s cultural center, A Park is Your Front Yard: Indian Boundary Park and the Gubbins, McDonnell & Blietz Co-ops, 1915-1929 will be open to tour participants on May 2.
The Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society was formed in 1975 to preserve the history of Rogers Park and West Ridge as a vital part of the City of Chicago, and to provide interactive education about these communities to the public.
I spoke with another developer last night about his company and the political corruption that follows.
I met him at a fundraiser in Lincoln Square. He told me that when working on his new building on Morse Avenue Alderman Joe Moore approached his workers and demanded the purchase of three tables (for his fundraiser), or else the building would not be completed.
While the developer was doing his business legally and within the proper zoning, he bought the three tables.
Youth between ages 13-15 are participating in 'Inner City Hoops' basketball tournaments every Friday at the Willye B. White Park Community Center. The first event was Friday, March 12th and will be held every Friday, with the last event being April 23rd. The event begins at 5:00 pm and lasts until approximately 7:30 pm.
Throughout the duration of the 'Inner City Hoops' tournament, the Park Advisory Council will be operating a concession stand, selling hot dogs, chips, cookies, bottled water to raise funds. All proceeds will go to help fund after school programs and summer camp for underprivileged children. Stop in, catch a tournament, and enjoy a hot dog or just donate to the kids fund.
Through it's fund raising efforts the Council offered 80% discount stocking stuffers for the Winter Holiday so kids could attend park activities while on break. The 80% discount was carried into the winter Park District program session and will continue with the spring program session. Program sessions are 10 weeks and the Spring 2010 session runs from March 29th thru June 6th.
Willye B. White Park and Recreation Center 1610 W. Howard Street Chicago, IL. 60626
Enjoy and discuss silent movies projected on the screen in the 1920's Parlor of the former Sheridan Beach Hotel. Movies will be from the Luck collection (excluding the family vacation reels!)
Our projectionist, Krisofer Luck, will explain his history with these films.
Plans to breathe new life into a hidden architectural gem in downtown Evanston picked up speed recently as City Council members agreed to explore the possibility of reopening one of the Chicago area's grandest movie palaces as a performing arts center.
The Evanston City Council has voted unanimously to seek a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as seed money for a possible rehabilitation of the 84-year-old Varsity Theater.
If the city gets the grant funds, it will contribute an additional $50,000. The money would be used to study the finances, architecture and proposed business plan to determine if reopening the shuttered downtown theater as a performing arts center is viable, city officials said.
"I think there's economic development impacts for the community," said Doug Gaynor, the city's director of parks, recreation and forestry. "It's always great to have cultural arts activities in the downtown."
"It needs work, but it's got great possibilities," said Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl. "What makes it beautiful and exciting to me is not the shape it's in right now but the shape it could be in."
"I think it could be a focal point for the arts community in Evanston," he said.
It's unclear at this point where the city would get the millions of dollars it would take to rehab the theater and where it would find a permanent tenant for a performing arts center. But Fiske said those are issues that could be addressed later.
"The grant money would allow us to get an idea of what it would take to reconfigure the building so that it would work," she said. "We're really lucky we retained that building."
How it is in Rogers Park
Here are some examples that we encountered when attempting to save and reopen the Adelphi Theater:
"What do you expect, this is City Hall" Alderman Joe Moore to the Citizens for the Adelphi Theater in City Council Chambers
"If you want my support, put the money on the table" Alderman Joe Moore to Bill Morton at his Jarvis Square storefront
Over 1,000 petition signatures hand delivered to Alderman Joe Moore and no response
And, of course... this:
On a more timely note: There is the Wisdom Bridge Theatre.
It's almost spring! The snow is nearly gone, the weather is less intimidating and we hope you will attend the monthly CAPS Beat 2422 meeting. We meet this month at 7450 North Rogers at the Gateway Senior Building - 7:00 PM on Thursday, March 11.
If you could help communicate this meeting to your neighbors, friends, area businesses and clients it would be greatly appreciated. Please join us and bring one or two neighbors, meet your CAPS officers, some of your beat officers and neighbors who want to improve our neighborhood.
Attached is a flyer and an annual calendar indicating the meeting rotation between the Gateway Senior Building on odd months and Willye White Center on even months that you may post or share via email. The calendars will be available at the meeting to post on your bulletin boards and you can update your calendars for the entire year.
We hope to see you Thursday. Bring a friend, your concerns, your ideas and together, we can work on solutions.
Thank you,
Toni Beat 2422 Co-Facilitator
Eva Beat 2422 Facilitator
Gateway Senior Apartments 7450 N. Rogers Avenue, Chicago, IL 60626
The character of Rogers Park can be described many ways. It is what we know and love about Rogers Park. It is the personality and spirit of where we live. Examples could be the residents, the beaches or even the cobblestone street on Glenwood Avenue. The character that I am referring to in this case are landmarks of our neighborhood, the buildings from the 1920’s and earlier.
Many share my view about preserving the history and culture of Rogers Park. It is the character of the neighborhood that increases business, creates tourism and lures new residents. I would strongly support the maintenance, safety and tenancy of these buildings.
I stated my view on crime prevention earlier. I feel that we must tackle our worst issues head-on. If we are ever going to drastically reduce crime in Rogers Park, we can no longer afford to sweep the issues under the rug. We will not find a long-term solution until we acknowledge the issues.
There needs to be more support for our local businesses. I’ve worked at a local Rogers Park business for over seven years, and have seen how entrepreneurs often struggle before becoming successful. The Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce uses a well-rounded approach to supporting local business including, our Shop Local campaign, referrals, networking events and radio/television/internet/press promotional campaigns. Our businesses need to be strong and sustainable to last throughout the years. I’m all about longevity.
Our tour of Rogers Park blogs would not be complete without this one included.
I remember a time before I started blogging. I was working very hard for nearly two years to renovate a beautiful 1920's vaudeville theater, The Adelphi. Back then, when I first learned of the threat of demolition, Craig Gernhardt supported the efforts of my non-profit organization Citizens for the Adelphi Theater and got the word out to the people of Rogers Park through his blog, The 'Broken Heart' of Rogers Park. With his support, and many others, we were able to get over 1,000 petition signatures in favor of saving the Adelphi Theater.
Later, I wrote my own blog. After 283,420 visitors and almost 1,700 articles later, here we are at Rogers Park in 1,000 Words!
The following are a few recent posts specifically about Rogers Park from The Broken Heart:
With the heading GREETINGS FROM 'GERMANIA', may I introduce to you North Howard Neighbors Association. We continue on our tour of Rogers Park blogs with the perspective of Michael Luckenbach.
The New Rogers Park Writing Group
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**🖎** *You are invited to participate in . . .* ## The New Rogers Park
Writing Group *. . . a community-based writing and publishing workshop*
**🖎** **Do...
The New Rogers Park Writing Group
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**🖎** *You are invited to participate in . . .* ## The New Rogers Park
Writing Group *. . . a community-based writing and publishing workshop*
**🖎** **Do...
Can you help?
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
(Also, interviewing for a 'full-time' employee)
Attention RP neighbors....
Hi Kitty Kitty, the Rogers Park, no kill cat shelter/sanctuary, ...
View of the back of Mision Cristiana Elim
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I'm continuing my series looking into some of the areas of the
neighborhood that were never really meant to be on display. You can't do
much better than ...
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Has it really been six years since I posted anything on this blog?
Yep..my last post here was in 2012, just before my mother's passing, and
that of my brot...
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Welcome!
If you're looking to move to an affordable and community-oriented housing
option in Rogers Park, consider our coop. We have 1, 2 and 3 bedroom un...
Clarke’s opens at Loyola
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By Jake Mazanke There’s another new dining option at Loyola University
Chicago’s Lake Shore Campus, as Clarke’s Diner recently opened. Clarke’s
had its gr...
A Triumvirate of Chinese Crested Dogs
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My beloved little mutt is always delighted to meet dogs that are her own
size or smaller. She likes to be reassured that she's not the smallest dog
in R...
4 October 2015: The 800th and Final Post
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This little white dog on a windy day bids you a fond farewell
Well, dear readers, after three years and eight hundred posts, i think the
time has come to...
Anna and Diamond | A Tutor Story
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When Anna and Diamond started working together six years ago, Anna devised
a simple but effective tool for motivating Diamond: stickers.
“She *loved *stic...
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*A History of the “7331 N. Sheridan Road” Mansion (the “Shambala Meditation
Center”) *
*By Susan Olin*
The mansion at 7331 N. Sheridan (currently the Sha...
Know thy neighbor: Smith & Edwards
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We’re pleased to introduce this month’s neighbors in our Know Thy Neighbor
Series: Mike Smith and Jeff Edwards, a.k.a. Smith & Edwards. Mike plays
guitar i...
Musical Quotes
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Throughout the ages, iconic figures of all kinds have shared with us with
their thoughts and feelings about music. After reading just a few of the
quotes ...
I MOVED- Follow me on ChicagoNow!
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Follow my Rogers Park adventures at “In the Know in RoPo’s” new location on
ChicagoNow! http://www.chicagonow.com/in-the-know-in-ropo/
Cease Fire Walk Today at 2pm
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Cease Fire is having a peace walk today at 2pm. Meet up is at the corner of
Jonquil and Paulina and will proceed south to Clark and Touhy. In case
anyone h...
Moore Leaving?
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Back on Nov 12 I received an email that originated with Evanston aldermen
reporting our Alderman was selected as the Director of the Illinois EPA,
subject ...
September 2011 Monthly Meeting
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Community members, please join us to discuss our group initiatives.
The meeting will be held at
7:00 pm Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011
7716 N. Paulins #1N
The f...
The Tomato Plant that was Left for Us
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I’ve begun to appreciate the little things. However all that I am left to
nurture, for now, is a small tomato plant. It was a gift from him for
Mother's ...
Sunday, Oct. 31st: Halloween in Rogers Park!
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When: Sunday, October 31st, 4-8pm
Where: Jarvis Square (Jarvis and Greenview)
Come celebrate Halloween in Jarvis Square with the Rogers Park Parents
Group!...
North Coast Music Festival
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Helloooo lovely listeners!
Hopefully you've heard our PSAs announcing the North Coast Music Festival
for this upcoming Labor Day weekend. No you say? Wha...
Third Annual RPGG Garden Meander
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"Come join the RPGG and explore special single family and multi-unit
gardens east of Sheridan, ending with a tour of new and old gardens on the
Loyola ca...
A new year with old problems
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I woke up this morning with the intentions of setting the year right. I
would tackle a mountain of laundry in preparation of my maiden voyage back
to the g...
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O.K. I know no one is ever going to read this and I know this is all for my
own edification and self pitying suffocation so here's a little ditty I
just th...
A Trip to the Other Side of Town
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Field TripToday we drove south to Promontory Point. It's past the loop in
that far away land known as the "south side." Great news, the skyline is
just as ...
Rogers Park
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*Walk and Vigil Tonight*
*Friends & Neighbors,Please note the two events below.Join Cease Fire,
Organization of the NorthEastand Rogers Park nei...
Good Morning Rogers Park
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*Inside the Review*
*News*
*O.N.E Vigil Tonight*
*Downtown Immigration Rally Today **click here *
*Politics*
*Watered Down Trans Fat Law **click here*
*A...
Ahead of the Decision Tomorrow
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*Steele Drops Bid for Stroger Seat, Activist Files Lawsuit*
*Cook County Commissioner Bobbie Steele on Monday withdrew her name from
consideration for Coun...
Will Netherland
Edward Yeo in The Parlor of Quest Network Services
Edward Yeo in the Lil Adler Grand Ballroom
Coffee Party
Cafe Society 
