Neighborhood Update for Platt Park and Washington Park By the time you are reading this the 2023 local elections should be behind us and one of the 47 or so candidates for mayor will have risen to the top along with new City Councilpersons and a host of other items decided—gonna miss all those smiling… [Read More]
Platt Park Neighborhood Business Update
Here’s a brief Platt Park Neighborhood Business Update…and a few other things! Happy holidays to everyone out there in the neighborhood. Hard to believe we’ll soon be putting the wraps on another year. Being finally set free of the grip of Covid has been a standout blessing of 2022—not that we are totally out of… [Read More]
Platt Park Covid-19 Neighborhood Update
Platt Park Covid-19 Neighborhood Update, as of July 2020 Covid-19 edition part deux. In case you haven’t noticed that darn pandemic is still hanging around–not that you’d know if you swung by Washington Park to join a sweaty basketball game or wanted to jump in on a little volleyball action—looks a bit ‘life as… [Read More]
Platt Park Restaurants–Ototo Den Returns!
Sliding quietly back into the Platt Park restaurants landscape in September was a familiar name–Ototo Den—back for a third try. First there was the Den Deli, which rather quickly morphed into the first rendition of Ototo Den, which was shuttered in 2012, as performance was not meeting owner Toshi Kizaki’s high standards. Does Toshi have… [Read More]