On October 27, from 12 noon to 5 pm, there is going to be one whale of a sale at Jesus People USA’s 920 W. Wilson Avenue address, a.k.a., the Chelsea House. Various wonderfully talented handcrafters of everything from jewelry to exotic oils to clothing to purses to… well, you [...]

We didn’t know what was happening, but our building’s entire front entrance spent hours blocked off as police (some armored and many armed more heavily than normal) confronted a man barricaded into his apartment in a building near us. Thank you for praying over the situation if you saw our [...]

  [This article, with a photo gallery at article's end, is part II of a Planned III part series; Part I deals with Chelsea Hotel's construction in the 1920s and what happened next.] Through the 1930s into the first two-thirds of the 1960s Chelsea Hotel, despite its small studio apartments, [...]

  I have lived in Uptown since the mid eighties. It is different now. Back then it was a bonified ghetto, with burnt out buildings, drunks to step over on the sidewalk and children of drug addicts playing on the streets in rags. Over the years it has changed. Like [...]

Loyola D-lineman doing “Good” things Chicago Sun-Times Updated: October 21, 2011 7:51AM Life is good for Darby Goodwin. He’s a rising star on one of the state’s top football teams, one heading into its biggest game of the season this weekend. But the Loyola junior doesn’t take his blessings for [...]

I’ve added some new text and this new (er, old) photo to the “Chelsea Hotel Before the Jesus People, Part I” article. I’ve come into some great pics from a couple JPUSA archivists (thanks Dave and Ted!!); some of that will be forthcoming in Part II. For all you Uptown [...]

[Cornerstone Archives, Issue 45] [Historical note to this 1979 article: It details JPUSA surviving the infamous Chicago blizzard of '79 and using it as a witnessing opportunity, and it also details our purchase of the 4707 N. Malden building (JPUSA was at this time living at 4431-33 North Paulina Street [...]

  The wonderful thing about any building in the city is how quickly it serves as a place for and container of history. Jesus People USA’s current home of 920 W. Wilson — the Chelsea Hotel — is no exception to that rule. * * * When JPUSA (an intentional [...]

“I know my epitaph: ‘Curiosity did not kill this cat.’”– Studs Terkel Chicago, and the world, lost an irreplaceable voice today. Studs Terkel is dead at 96. Our Uptown neighbor and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author (for 1985′s The Good War), Studs Terkel was and will always be best known as [...]

Uptown’s Eastern border, as every local knows, is Lake Michigan. But where we all go to hang out, Montrose Harbor and the areas of Lincoln Park north and south of that location, has all sorts of outdoor activities to sample. This post is simply a reminder to use Lawrence, Wilson, [...]