May 24, 2012
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May 23, 2012
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May 18, 2012
5 Must-Try Eateries in Albany Park
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May 15, 2012

asiunia:

It’s decided.

I’m treating myself to some delicious ginseng chicken soup over at Ssyal Ginseng House once school is out.

***The photos aren’t mine!***

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May 14, 2012
Patrick Reardon's Guide to Chicago for NATO visitors

mylesdannhausen:

Let me offer something else. Let me offer you glimpses of Chicago that hint at its character and texture.
Or, for another insight, plop yourself down at the corner of Lawrence and Kedzie avenues in the Albany Park neighborhood, the cultural crossroads of a city that is a cultural crossroads.

I know, that’s what NATO is. But life in Albany Park is nitty-gritty, day-in day-out diversity. It’s eat-in-each-other’s-restaurants and shop-at-each-other’s-stores diversity.

There is a Lebanese bakery and a Guatemalan bakery. There is Baghdad Kabab restaurant and Lindo Michoacan. Jerusalem Liquors and Peking Mandarin. Nazareth Sweets and Ur Cafe. There are store signs in Arabic and Korean. Others in Chinese characters and in Japanese script.

True, not every Chicago neighborhood is like Albany Park. Many are still heavily white or heavily African-American or heavily Mexican. But this is a city in which a NATO’s worth of cultural variety can be found riding on scores of Chicago Transit Authority buses and trains each day.

I’ve been discovering much of this city by running a new route every day since I moved here three months ago. One of the few routes I repeat is a run that takes me through Albany Park. It is exactly what Reardon describes - a crossroads of cultures. It’s endlessly fascinating, and so far removed from the Chicago that even many long-time residents - even those living just a few blocks away - ever experience.

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May 9, 2012

Look! Ur fave thin crust joint and alcohol delivery service was featured on some local tube show. Kewl. 

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May 7, 2012
Regin Igloria on North Branch Projects
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May 1, 2012
[via Albany Park Chamber o’ Commerce] “Our little library branch is about to undergo big changes - here’s a throwback to the 1930s storefront branch at 3536 W. Lawrence Ave.”

[via Albany Park Chamber o’ Commerce]

“Our little library branch is about to undergo big changes - here’s a throwback to the 1930s storefront branch at 3536 W. Lawrence Ave.”

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April 29, 2012
[via kkmook11]

[via kkmook11]

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April 25, 2012
Middle Eastern Explorations in Albany Park

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April 18, 2012
Haiku-In-Residence at North Branch Projects.

Haiku-In-Residence at North Branch Projects.

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April 16, 2012
Snapped this as I was leaving JB’s last nite. Looks like Albany Park is getting a new dawg station next to the Kimball station…what do you think? Are you still sad Zapata closed? Will you be loyal to the Magic Grill? Do you think the AP needs more potable meat snacks? Will dogs usurp tacos as the preferred portable meat snack of choice? Will this end the Huddle House’s french fry domination? 

Snapped this as I was leaving JB’s last nite. Looks like Albany Park is getting a new dawg station next to the Kimball station…what do you think? Are you still sad Zapata closed? Will you be loyal to the Magic Grill? Do you think the AP needs more potable meat snacks? Will dogs usurp tacos as the preferred portable meat snack of choice? Will this end the Huddle House’s french fry domination? 

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April 15, 2012
estefania-773: rebelliousqi: The northeast intersection Kedzie and Lawrence Avenues, 1935. This is near my home. It’s now a Mexican grocery and restaurant Lindo Michoacan. So different from what it looks like today.Kedzie and Lawrence is home. ♥ 

estefania-773:

rebelliousqi:

The northeast intersection Kedzie and Lawrence Avenues, 1935.

This is near my home. It’s now a Mexican grocery and restaurant Lindo Michoacan.

So different from what it looks like today.
Kedzie and Lawrence is home. ♥ 

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April 9, 2012
OMG, Albany Park made the Reader’s new bar guide. Against all odds, your favorite watering hole Just Butch’s gets a pretty tight review but it could be argued that a superior guide to the ‘best’ bars in the neighborhood partially already exists [link to myself]. What about Gamblers? Or the corner flower box at Lawndale and Larry where Albany Parkers are really getting sauced? And let us not underestimate the powerful allure of Strikers [now Black Tooth] with it’s convenient location, drink specials and karaoke to an empty bar. Salud, konbe and fisehatak. Make mine a double. 

OMG, Albany Park made the Reader’s new bar guide. Against all odds, your favorite watering hole Just Butch’s gets a pretty tight review but it could be argued that a superior guide to the ‘best’ bars in the neighborhood partially already exists [link to myself]. What about Gamblers? Or the corner flower box at Lawndale and Larry where Albany Parkers are really getting sauced? And let us not underestimate the powerful allure of Strikers [now Black Tooth] with it’s convenient location, drink specials and karaoke to an empty bar. Salud, konbe and fisehatak. Make mine a double. 

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April 8, 2012
At Kedzie train station by Proxy Indian on Flickr.

At Kedzie train station by Proxy Indian on Flickr.

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