• Wrigley Field Cartoon: Wrigleyville or...?

  Cubs owner Sam Zell has said he’d consider selling naming rights to Wrigley Field….What if Oprah stepped up?

  Published by Chicago Methods Reporter on March 6, 2008.

• 327 E. 79th St. Chatham Food Center: An oasis in a ‘food desert’

  Inside this 4,000-square-foot, 25-year-old supermarket owned by Leonard Harris, 63, and his wife Donna, 50, at 327 E. 79th St., soul music zings through the air. It’s a subtle reminder that this neatly manicured grocery store is indeed the last of its kind, according to the Chicago Urban League.

  Published by Chicago Methods Reporter on March 6, 2008.

• 1824 W. Wabansia Ave. 10 Videos from Chicago's Urban Shopping Cart Race

  More than 500 people raced shopping carts down the sidewalks, streets and alleys of Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood Saturday, March 1, 2008, as part of a food drive that combined athleticism, alcohol, trickery and lavish costumes.

  Published by Chicago Methods Reporter on March 6, 2008.

• Humboldt Park Humboldt Park: A screenplay of a screenplay in the making

  Division Street in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, the symbolic center of the city’s Puerto Rican community, marked on either end by giant sculptures of the Puerto Rican flag.

  Published by Chicago Methods Reporter on March 5, 2008.

• Shakespeare Ave. and Damen Top 15 Pictures from Chiditarod 2008: Chicago's Urban Shopping Cart Race

  The Chiditarod is Chicago’s urban shopping cart race, an epic jaunt across 5 miles of frozen Wicker Park streets that draws dozens of lavishly costumed teams each year.

  Published by Chicago Methods Reporter on March 4, 2008.

• North Leavitt Street and West McLean Avenue Chicago's Ugliest Condos: Cubic Confusion

  If new condos are your guide, bricks seem to have become passe, passed over for masonry and glass. But here at the intersection of North Leavitt Street and West McLean Avenue (just north of Armitage Avenue), brick, glass and stone are jumbled together into cubic confusion. The materials look less contemporary (compared to, say, this), but the design most certainly is.

  Published by Chicago Methods Reporter on February 22, 2008.

• East 33rd Street and South Indiana Avenue Chicago gospel music feeling tug of modern influences

  Pilgrim Baptist Church, the landmark Louis Sullivan structure built as a synagogue in 1890 at East 33rd Street and South Indiana Avenue, embraced this sound and invited Dorsey to form a gospel choir in 1932. Dorsey’s wife and newborn daughter died that same year, and Dorsey dedicated his life to the church, writing “Take My Hand, Oh Precious Lord,” the most famous of gospel songs.

  Published by Chicago Methods Reporter on February 14, 2008.

• West 111th Street and South Loomis Avenue Chicago gospel music feeling tug of modern influences

  Beth Eden, the “Mother Church of Morgan Park,” is gearing up another Sunday service. The church is the place where the long road from the South first enters metropolitan Chicago, on West 111th Street and South Loomis Avenue, which is newly named for longtime music director Robert E. Wooten Sr.

  Published by Chicago Methods Reporter on February 14, 2008.

• 1600 block of N. Wolcott Chicago's Ugliest Condos: Old Meets New

  Sandwiched between two homes on the 1600 block of N. Wolcott (across the street from the “Urban Sandbox” mentioned in the previous post) is this new home:

  Published by Chicago Methods Reporter on February 14, 2008.

• 1611 N. Wolcott There Goes the Neighborhood: Would you live in this sandbox?

  So many of the new homes being built in Bucktown have either too many windows or too few. This white, nearly finished building at 1611 N. Wolcott just has oddly placed windows, which for some reason the architect paired with large orange rectangles. It’s as though the developer said, “This home needs some flair!” and the architect obliged with a few dashes of color. The facade would have been uglier with only windows on the lower half, but it’s still one of Chicago’s ugliest.

  Published by Chicago Methods Reporter on February 9, 2008.

• 1865 N. Wilmot Ave. Chicago's Ugliest Condos: Awkward Triangulation

  Modernist architects, as far back as Chicago’s own Louis Sullivan, like to note that “form follows function.” But just as often, I think, form follows lot size. This family jewel at 1865 N. Wilmot Ave. (at the intersection of Oakley and Cortland) makes the best of a narrow triangle:

  Published by Chicago Methods Reporter on February 2, 2008.

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