Scene in Logan Square: House & Garden Walk

Logan Square Preservation House & Garden Walk is scheduled for Saturday, September 6, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., centered around Palmer Square.

For 27 years Logan Square neighbors have generously opened their doors and unlocked the garden gates to allow others to scratch below the surface of the beauty of the neighbor-
hood.

This year’s House Walk features 9 gardens, 8 homes — all protected by Landmark designation — and 2 churches in Palmer Square, itself part of Chicago’s Logan Square Boulevards Landmark District.

The House Walk was started to combat negative press falsely

Anchor opportunities (Part I)

Not without a mooring

The promise of Cheetah Gym has been broken, and [Update: Cheetah Gym is on again! (See One step backwards, two steps forward on Milwaukee Avenue.)] Milwaukee Avenue is drifting (see Without an
anchor), but this stretch of Milwaukee Avenue in Logan Square is not without a mooring to make fast an anchor.

The former Grace’s Furniture store at the south end of this stretch is back on the market (rental, at least) (photo, right).

And on the north end of the stretch, the group of buildings on the west side of Milwaukee Avenue that are part of the Chicago Milwaukee-Diversey- Kimball Landmark District, all have vacancies above the first floor (and some on the first floor as well).