As a proud Chicago native and product of the Chicago Public School system, Dr. Marva Cooksey has worked passionately for over 35 years to serve her community as a licensed clinical pharmacist. She currently practices at Advocate Aurora Christ Hospital. In 2014, she embarked on a mission to rejuvenate men's health by attending SOMA Institute and obtaining a massage therapist license in 2015. This endeavor allowed her to be able to integrate her expertise as a clinical pharmacist and clinical massage therapist. She founded "Next Man Up" (NMU) a man’s ultimate spa experience. Four years later and a yearning to provide a place of tranquility for males, Dr. Cooksey established her boutique spa located at 946 E. 43rd St....
SCG is excited to announce the production of our company magazine, Market Makers. Check out this sneak peek piece! Meet Derek Pulchny, founder of DTA Group, a construction company that has been building for 20+ years with focused efforts in Chicagoland and the surrounding suburbs. The long list of areas where Derek and his team have built homes include Woodlawn, Kenwood, Bronzeville, Lincoln Square, Northbrook, Glenview and Arlington Heights. With a concentration on residential development, their mission is to construct high-quality, functional homes where buyers and their loved ones can create cherished memories. Derek was raised in a Polish family where building your own home is customary and carpentry skills are passed down through generations. While being an apprentice...
Within the last five years, SCG has acknowledged buyers’ desire for their homes to be a place of both work and leisure. The recent quarantine only amplifies this trend as people are spending more time at home than ever before. With an eye for consumer trends, SCG started consulting the additions of home theatres and offices prior to the quarantine. “Steele says his team anticipated increased buyer-demand for immersive-experience theatres in the properties they develop”. Hasani believes the craze for home theatres will only increase as subscriptions to blockbuster-streaming services increase during the pandemic. As we adapt to the possibilities of more working from home, the demand for a dedicated and functional workspace increases. “Clients are scrutinizing [their] use of...
The Green Living Room is a "new coffee shop and community gathering spot in Woodlawn". Visitors can come in pick up a coffee sit, relax, and have a snack. Also offering a chance to buy African American cultural home goods and clothing. Along with the opportunity to socialize with fellow peers; visitors can come in and get work done with the free wi-fi, computers and printers. Blacks in Green employees, the nonprofit behind for Green Living Room, said that "the Green Living Room is important because it fosters a sense of community in West Woodlawn and it brings together various services so residents don’t have to travel to other neighborhoods for errands." To read the full article click HERE Article...
Chance the Rapper, a Chicago native, released a " video game coded and designed by South Side students" for his single "I Love You so Much". Chances's charity SocailWorks release this game called "SuperMe" using students in the CS4ALL program, where they designed superheros that took after their own images. In this game Chance's music is playing while a superhero is flying through the sky collecting hearts. To read the complete article and even play the game click HERE Article and picture brought to you by Block Club Chicago
What TOD does is that it "incentivizes housing with limited parking near mass transit". The new, 91 unit 8 story high apartment complex, is being proposed at the corner of 43rd Street and Calumet near the 43rd Street Green Line. Nearly half of the units will go for the going market rate while the other half will be marketed as income-restricted affordable-rate units. According to Alderman Pat Dowell (3rd) she believes that "the development could be a catalyst for the area". For the full Article click HERE Article and photo credited to Curbed Chicago
Veronica Kyle, a South Shore resident, unknowingly started a wave when she put up her Little Free Library outside her home with the hopes of influencing her surrounding neighbors to turn to learning and literacy rather than a life of the streets. The residents have been without a Public Library for close to a year, and with these little libraries popping up Veronica hopes to bring further peace and learning to her community. Veronica knows firsthand the importance of this after "...her house bears a bullet hole, received as a man was shot to death nearby. “Systemic problems” like a lack of literacy have led to drug sales, which have in turn increased the violence in her community, she said."...
Members of the Bronzeville Association for Recreation with Canines (BARC) gathered with the Chicago Park Officials at the ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the new park located at 3928-40 S. Indiana Ave. It is the first of 3 dog parks to open on the South Side, the other two in the final stages of checks. Check out this article and see how thrilled the residents are about this new growth in their community. Click HERE for the full article. Photo Credits - Jamie Nesbitt Golden/Block Club Chicago Story Credit - Block Club Chicago
Check out our recent commentary for the August Chicago Housing Report HERE in Loop North News. Chicago is holding strong on median sales price, with a four percent increase over last year, despite a more than seven percent dip in the number of homes sold, noted Realtor Hasani Steele of RE/MAX Premier. “Buyer increase in patience, especially if they already own, is in line with the increase of average market time,” said Steele.
