Rogers Park Community Guide 2024
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Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce
2024 Community Profile & Business Directory
www.RogersPark.cc Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce 6902 N. Glenwood Ave.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Howard Street
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Your photos bring to mind two things to this Rogers Park/Howard ex-pat (grew up there):
1. The great sadness of other good buildings lost, the Norshore Theater, the wonderful Art Deco Norshore Bank (at the former Hermitage corner)- built with 4 stories but with a foundation that could take 8. This optimism about it's future was sadly misplaced, since it was wantonly destroyed. And tere were others.
2. The recent redevelopment efforts are a posterboard for how to ignore transit-oriented development potential staring one in the face. The absurd suburban sprawl-mall will never again allow those 3 really dense commercial blocks to come back as a desirable, cohesive, walkable destination strip. Trust me, that is not a good thing on sooo many levels: long-tern economics, crime rates, etc., etc. So very sad.
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