Graceland West Community AssociationEvery year, our final quarterly community meeting is a celebration and social gathering. This year it will be held Thursday December 7th at 5:30 at Port & Park. We’ll have some fun and announce the winner of this year’s golden rake for amazing work during our annual street leaf cleanup. As always, reach out to info@gracelandwest.org with any questions.
Lakeview Taproom, located within Graceland West and friends of GWCA, is proud to announce they have opened a coffee house! Sticking to their goal to connect local Chicago businesses to neighbors, their coffee is provided by Hexe Coffee Co.
The coffee house is open from 7am-3pm every day. Their menu has fresh coffees, tea, espresso, and baked goods. The taproom drink menu will be available during these hours as well.
Lakeview Taproom and Coffee House is located at 1426 W Irving Park Road, Chicago, IL. You can reserve this space for a private event through their contact page, or you can just stop by and try one of their treats.
Use this link to view their new menu.
Who wants to win the “Golden Rake” Award for raking and bagging the most street leaves in Graceland West by the end of the day today, Sunday Nov 19.
Borders are Montrose, Clark, Irving Park and Ashland. Rake and bag your street leaves and place the bag on your parkway for pickup after the 19th.
Take a photo and share it with us info@gracelandwest.org with your name and number of bags of street leaves.
Thanks to all the energetic and kind neighbors who raked and bagged almost 100 bags of street leaves in 90 minutes last weekend at five Greenview intersections.
We received a notice from Principal Karafiol that the Lake View High School turf field is finally being repaired this week. The repair involves removing the existing pellets and then replacing them with new ones and it is not safe for people to use the field during this week and could actually cause further damage to the field.
Please stay off the turf this week until the repair is complete.
Please help those in need this Thanksgiving season by dropping off canned foods at Quantum Leep Academy, conveniently located in Graceland West at 1447 W Montrose Ave. The drive ends on November 17th.
Block Rep Liza S kicked off GWCA’s 11th Annual Street and Crosswalk Leaf Cleanup at Cullom and Greenview with these bagged leaves. Please bring a rake, your family, friends and some neighbors and officially help kick-off this project at 9 am Saturday, Nov 11. Kick-off is at Greenview and Belle Plaine, Berteau and Cullom intersections where we will provide bags.
Can’t make it Saturday? Just bag your street and crosswalk leaves through Nov 19 for a special parkway pick-up after Nov 19.
We need everyone to help. This effort makes streets and crosswalks less slick for pedestrians. And it keeps leaves from clogging sewers and flooding streets, basements and vehicles. Our goal is 500 bags of street and crosswalk leaves. Please take photos and send to info@gracelandwest.org
It’s not too late to sign up!
Join us, those from the Graceland West neighborhood, for the Gals of GWCA Get-Together. Tonight, Friday, November 3, 6:00 at The Long Room 1612 W Irving Park.
Cost of attendance is $15 per individual. Your ticket cost directly provides funds to help support the many local initiatives of our GWCA nonprofit organization.
Contact Liza Gaertner at lizashore@gmail.com or Sarah Maxwell at Sarah.Maxwell@gmail.com to sign-up or with questions. Additionally submit your payment via Venmo to @graceland-west, Zelle to info@gracelandwest.org or mail payment payable to GWCA to 1466 W Hutchinson.
Give your costumes a test run (or a second or third test run) before the big night on Tuesday! Tomorrow, Saturday October 28th at 11:00 will be our annual GWCA Halloween Party at Warner Park.
Be ready for candy apple making, pumpkin decorating, spider maze, mummy wrapping, pin the stem on the pumpkin, ghost races and a great time out in the park with the community.
Tues Oct 24, 3:30 pm
Lake View High School Halloween Concert
Tues Oct 24, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
19th Police District Council Meeting
Thurs Oct 26, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lake View High School Local School Council (LSC) Meeting
Fri Nov 3, 6:00 pm
Gals of GWCA Get Together
Sat Nov 4, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Pumpkin Smash
Wed Nov 8, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
CAPS Beat Meeting 1912
All events can be found on our Calendar page which has a subscribe link at the bottom if you’d like to add our events to your preferred calendar app. Questions? Contact info@gracelandwest.org
Puja Ramaswamy, Choir Director and Music Dept Chair at Lake View High School has invited the community to their Halloween Concert with Band, Choir and Piano.
All are welcome at 3:30 PM on Tuesday October 24 in the LVHS Auditorium (entrance on Irving Park).
