EVA Monday: Your food-truck orders

By -

After closing Ashland Avenue last August, the Food Truck Social is looking for another place to park. The site is on Monday's agenda for East Village Association members.

The street fair is set to expand to two days, from noon till 10 pm Aug. 25 & 26. On Friday the sponsoring West Town Chamber of Commerce sent an email to merchants and community groups seeking comments on a Chicago Avenue location.

Food trucks would ring the vacant lot at 1834-50 W. Chicago Ave., once the AAA Distributing warehouse. A music stage booked by Empty Bottle Presents would close Chicago Avenue between Wolcott and Wood Street, along with a mix of beer, wine and craft vendors.

The chamber put attendance at 10,000 for last year's Aug. 27 festival. The business group pays for its operations with an expanding lineup of street fairs, including this past weekend's West Fest on the same stretch of Chicago Avenue.

The food-truck event also will benefit Share Our Strength, a nonprofit focused on childhood hunger. The chamber will make additional donations to groups "determined by the final location and by the Alderman," the chamber email said.

The event would close Chicago Avenue between Wood and Wolcott from 1 am Aug. 25 till 6 am Aug. 27. The city will post towing-order signs a day ahead.

EVA members Monday also will examine the chamber's plan to add Damen Avenue to the Special Service Area that taxes landowners on commercial streets. The SSA also would cover Ashland, Chicago, Grand, Milwaukee and Ogden Avenues.

The meeting is at 7 pm in Happy Village, 1059 N. Wolcott Ave. Also up for discussion are the closing, demolition and sale of the 13th District police station at 937 N. Wood St.; planning for EVA's Aug. 6 barbecue and Sept. 13 30th anniversary celebration, and response to last month's unanimous vote recommending that the city continue its package-goods license freeze.
Tom Tomek business card
Anselmo @properties business card,
Ask Nagel business card.

Popular posts from this blog

Crime puts La Spata on the spot

By -
Image
Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st Ward) speaks to East Village Association members June 13, 2022. Weekend gunfire turned a scheduled meeting with Ald. Daniel LaSpata into an hourlong discussion of public safety. Residents pressed the alderman on police response to calls and his own response to violent crime. The June 13 meeting was streamed on EVA's Facebook page . La Spata stated that the number of aggravated batteries and carjackings had fallen in East Village's two beats but a rise of robberies had been "frustrating." In weekly calls with 12th District Cmdr. Beth Giltmier, La Spata said he pushed for Chicago Avenue foot patrols. Residents asked if more street cameras would be installed in the ward, noting that early morning shots fired on their block two days before had no police response for more than an hour. La Spata said cameras were funded from the ward's discretionary "menu money" but he would not commit to funding cameras without consulting Giltmi
Read more

Ald. Villegas gets to know East Village

By -
Image
36th Ward Ald. Gilbert Villegas meets East Vlllage Association members Sept. 12, 2022 at Roots Pizza. East Village Association membership meeting Sept. 12, 2022, at Roots Pizza, 1924 W. Chicago Ave. Presiding: Dan Johnson, director East Village again is split in Chicago's City Council redistricting. Ald. Gilbert Villegas introduced himself to East Village Association members Sept. 12. In turn, members sounded him out on how he works with community groups on neighborhood issues. The remap pushes Villegas' 36th Ward boundaries east along Grand Avenue from Belmont Cragin into East Village. A West Town satellite office at 2246 W. Chicago Ave. is staffed Tuesday through Thursday. "I ran in 2019 under an acronym that I still use today, which is PEACE—Public Safety, Education Accountability, City Services and Economic Development," Villegas told EVA members before taking questions. "I'm not an alderman that's about defunding the police. I'm an alderma
Read more