Category: Events & Announcements

GWCA’s 1st Quarter 2020 Community Meeting includes:
* LVHS Update by Principal Karafiol
* Vote whether or not to lift the Package Liquor License Moratorium on both sides of Irving Park between Ashland and Clark for a minimum of 12 months to allow permanent package liquor sales. The moratorium was placed in 1995 and GWCA Block Rep leaders and 19th District Police have long considered the moratorium helpful for neighborhood safety. Numerous businesses have been interested in selling package liquor there.
* Vote on two Council seats.

When: Sunday, January 26, 5:30 pm. Doors open at 5 pm
Where: Rizal Community Center, 1332 West Irving Park. Free parking in lot on east side of Rizal.

GWCA thanks everyone in advance for helping to make sure no dogs are permitted inside the Lake View High School Campus. Dog urine will damage the artificial turf on the field, track and playlot. The multi-million dollar improvements provide students with outdoor space for gym, a practice field and a big athletics program. This space is also shared with the community when not in use by the school. The area is posted “no dogs”, but we need everyone’s help to maintain the property. Just like indoor carpet, dog urine and residual feces is damaging to the artificial turf surfaces. Additionally, as this is athletic space, allowing dogs isn’t healthy for students who have ground / artificial turf contact or neighborhood children who crawl on the surface. And if you notice any litter not in containers, can you help pick it up even if you didn’t leave it?
Thank you everyone!

What: GWCA’s Annual Holiday Pot luck and update
When: Sunday, December 15, 5:30 pm (doors open at 5:15)
Where: Rizal, 1332 West Irving Park. Free parking too
What the heck is GWCA? the Graceland West Community Association, www.gracelandwest.org

This is for all ages, from infants to 102, so please bring your whole family and some neighbors too.
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Thank you all for 40 years of support and community!
The GWCA Council (past and present) and the GWCA Block Reps and Committee Chairs and volunteers too

Happy Holidays!

GWCA Annual Holiday Pot Luck and Update: Sunday, December 15, 5:30 pm at Rizal. Free Parking
As a neighborhood resident, you are invited to our GWCA holiday pot luck. Just bring a dish to share and join us for an old fashioned neighborhood get together with food, desserts, drinks and BYOB. LVHS Principal Karafiol will provide a brief update of the school and council member Jeff Fleshman will show us how to improve our sidewalks, roads, trees, and more by just having our phone at the ready. When? Where? Sunday, December 15, 5:30 pm at Rizal, 1332 West Irving Park. Free Parking. We’ve reserved space to continue socializing afterwards at the new Port & Park. They have hard or soft cider, Irish coffee and a full menu and are offering you a GWCA Discount for whatever you order.

This time of this event is designed so families can attend with children as young as infants. Based on multiple neighborhood surveys, families with children or all ages and business travelers who often leave early on Monday or workers who frequently have long hours chose Sunday, late afternoon or early evening as a preferred GWCA time. So we encourage you to attend.

GWCA ECO / Green Committee:
GWCA is applying for a TreePlanters grant from Openlands, a local environmental nonprofit. The grant will allow GWCA to work with professional arborists to replace 10-30 street trees in our neighborhood. If you have an open spot along the parkway between your sidewalk and the street, please contact GWCA ECO / Green Committee Member, Joel McFarland joel.mcfarland@gmail.com or contact info@gracelandwest.org so that you can be included in our grant application.

What will happen when I request a tree through the TreePlanters grant? GWCA will include your parkway spot on the list of potential planting sites that we submit to Openlands. If we receive the grant, an arborist will visit the site and determine whether a tree can be planted and what species would be appropriate. We will work with Openlands to schedule a planting date in the spring. We ask that you join us for the planting and commit to watering and caring for the tree after it is planted.

Why should I care about street trees? Street trees absorb water and help mitigate neighborhood flooding. They also help to cool our neighborhood, improve air quality, and increase property values

I submitted a 311 request for a new street tree. Why hasn’t the city responded? The city has a backlog of tree requests and often takes over a year to respond. Openlands coordinates their work with the city and has permission to plant trees in parkways. The Openlands TreePlanters grants help neighborhoods to replant their street trees more quickly.

As a neighborhood resident, you are invited to our GWCA holiday pot luck. Bring a dish to share and we’ll have an old fashioned neighborhood get together with food, desserts, drinks (BYOB). LVHS Principal Karafiol will provide a brief update of the school and council member Jeff Fleshman will show us how to improve our sidewalks, roads, trees, and more by just having our phone at the ready. When? Where? Sunday, December 15, 5:30 pm at Rizal, 1332 West Irving Park. Doors open at 5:15. Free Parking. Continue socializing afterwards at the new Port & Park. They have hard or soft cider, Irish coffee and whatever else you want (GWCA Discount for whatever you order).

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News from GWCA, the Graceland West Community Association, www.gracelandwest.org

1) GWCA 8th Annual Street Leaf Cleanup Update: Please leave bagged street leaves on your parkway by 3 pm, today, Sunday, November 17, for our special annual city pickup tomorrow for composting. A small group of hardy GWCA Council Members, Block Reps and neighbors worked for two hours yesterday on the Belle Plaine and Greenview and Cuyler and Greenview intersections and cleared ice from sewer grates, crosswalks, the street and shoveled ice from sidewalks. Other neighbors did the same on their streets. Thank you to all who could help. Please help keep sidewalk and street leaves up to make for safer walking and less flooding.

2) GWCA and NNA both have ECO / Green Committees and are jointly sponsoring a Green Forum on Nov 19, 7 pm at Rizal, 1332 W Irving Park. Free Parking. The Forum will include discussion of the Illinois Clean Energy Jobs Act, Chicago Recycling, and the WasteShed, an innovative Chicago program that utilizes recycled materials. Speakers: State Representative Ann Williams, Mike Nowak, Radio Host and Chicago Recycling Coalition, Eleanor Ray, Executive Director, The WasteShed.

3) GWCA will have it’s Annual Holiday Potluck, short family friendly meeting w semi-annual elections in December, and we’ll let you know when the date and location are set.

Please see below for upcoming viaduct closures. This is related to work on the Metra tracks.

Are you a renter, condo, home or business owner? If so, we need your help.

Please meet at the Greenview corner nearest your home or business. Bring 10 leaf bags and a rake or dust pan (yes it sounds crazy, but dustpans are great leaf scoops). You and other neighbors will clean up street, intersection and crosswalk leaves and clear the leaves from sewer grates.

Why??? Your work makes for safer winter walking and eliminates lots of leaves which desire only to clog sewers and contribute to street, vehicle and basement flooding. Your efforts make a big difference. Bring your family and neighbors and have fun. From October 10 through 17 you can leave bagged leaves on your parkway and not haul them all the way to the alley because the city does a special bagged leaf pickup to thank you for your effort.

GWCA (the Graceland West Community Association) and SNA, (the Southport Neighbors Association) are holding a joint community meeting on Monday, October 21, 7-8 pm at the Mercury Theater, 3745 N. Southport.

We’ll see and vote on a new business and tavern license proposal for a possible business in the 1400 block of Irving Park. GWCA members who live in the neighborhood (or are designated voters for GWCA non-profit, school or business members) and who are current and were members by September 21 (30 days prior) are eligible to vote. If your membership lapsed, don’t despair, instead, please join now so you can vote at an upcoming meeting.