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Let’s get outside and bag some leaves!

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

GWCA Volunteer Street Leaf Cleanup

November 11, 2023 @ 9:00 am – November 19, 2023 @ 5:00 pm

GWCA 11th Annual Street and Crosswalk Leaf Clean-up.  Launch is Saturday, Nov 11 at 9 am.  Meet at Greenview and Belle Plaine, Berteau or Cullom.  Can’t help then.  Clean street leaves and place bagged leaves on the nearest parkway from Nov 11 through Nov 19.  Streets and Sanitation will do a special pick up for us after Nov 19.

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Happy New Year! Graceland West 2022 in Review

2022 was a great year of re-emergence (of sorts) after a couple of years of flattening the COVID-19 curve and building immunity.

  • We kicked the year off after hibernating for the winter at our March meeting where we had a great time with Alderman Matt Martin and continued to build our relationship with Lake View High School, specifically their STEM program representatives and our very own Council member and teacher Joanne Yonan. 
  • On Earth Day we cleaned up the streets around the high school with our Congressman Mike Quigely.
  • Our Q2 meeting took place in beautiful Warner Park and focused on the efforts of the GWCA Eco Committee, led by Council member Joel McFarland who is an Openlands certified TreeKeeper.  We also heard from the Alderman’s office and CDOT about safe streets improvements.  More on this topic in 2023.
  • The annual yard sale was moved up to June.  Many thanks to Mark Nehring for his leadership.
  • The annual Garden Walk celebrated 40 years in 2022.  40 years!  Fearlessly led by Donna Forsberg for one last time as she called this year her last as the chairperson.  Mother Nature decided to keep us guessing throughout the day but allowed for plenty of time for all of our amazing neighborhood gardeners to share their efforts with guests.
  • The newly branded Graceland West Neighborhood Fest (formerly GWCAFest) was visited by Gale and Squall who dumped about 2 ft of flooding into the neighborhood, but that didn’t stop Sarah Maxwell, Barb Sullivan, Brad Pierce and their volunteers (including LVHS students) from toughing it out and waiting for the weather to clear for the neighborhood to emerge to enjoy Peg’s famous bake table, Randy’s age-less magic, Lisa B’s smooth vocals, Tacos, Tacos, Tacos (and Margaritas), and flame throwing (aka juggling)!
  • Our Q3 meeting finally brought us back into LVHS where we were introduced to the LVHS Robotics program (which is incredible)!
  • The Halloween party at Warner Park returned after a couple year hiatus and featured some amazing costumes, games and make your own candy apples.  Special thanks to Andrea and Colin McLeod and their volunteers for hosting the event.
  • And sure enough, Mother Nature wasn’t finished with us when she gave us rain and 50 mph winds the morning of our Street Leaf Cleanup and the Pumpkin Smash at LVHS.  Didn’t stop new Council member Paul Monzella from raking Cullom/Greenview until it was pristine. Throughout the week we totaled 182 bags, picked up by the Ward Superintendent the next week.
  • We finished off the year back at the Piggery, our gracious hosts for our March and December meetings, where we enjoyed pizza, pork and socializing.

The GWCA Council would like to recognize our Block Reps who helps to deliver flyers and spread important neighborhood news.  Thank You! 

Also, thanks to all who volunteered or attended any of the GWCA meetings and events and participated in the goal of the association to foster positive relationships between residents of the neighborhood, promote civic engagement and educate community members on issues of common interest such as crime prevention, neighborhood history and preservation, and community improvement.  It takes a village!

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GWCA’s 10th Annual Street Leaf Cleanup

Rake/Smash/Play/Learn

Saturday, November 5th, 10 AM – 2PM

Street Leaves on Greenview


Rake: Meet at 10 am at the Greenview intersection of either Cullom, Berteau, Belle Plaine or Cuyler. Bring a rake and leaf bags (we will have extra bags). Clean leaves from streets, parkways, crosswalks and sewer grates and place full bags on the parkways.

Clean remaining street, crosswalk and parkway leaves through November 13 for special parkway pickup after November 13.

Who will win the GWCA Golden Rake Award this year for most bagged street leaves?


Smash: Smash your pumpkins and gourds at Lake View High School for composting. The University of Illinois County Extension Services will be running the Composting
Event on November 5th in tandem with the GWCA street leaf cleanup. Last year over 1,000 pumpkins and gourds were composted from this event. Pumpkins must be free of candles, stickers, glitter, yarn, synthetic decorations. We can compost pumpkins decorated with water-based paints.


Play: Lane Tech will have games for kids (10-2).


Learn: Please stop by the University of Illinois and County Extension, environmental and GWCA tables.

GWCA 10th Annual Street Leaf Cleanup

Street Leaves on Greenview 11/12/21

November 5, 2022 – November 13, 2022

We’ll kick things off on Nov. 5th at the corner of Belle Plaine and Greenview.  Please bring 3-4 leaf bags and a rake.

This annual event is a great way to see your neighbors and helps make walking surfaces less slick when the rain turns to ice and reduces flooding due to clogged storm drains.

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Reminder: 9th Annual Street Leaf Cleanup

Let’s get outside this weekend and bag some street leaves! While there’s still a fair amount of leaves hanging on in our tree canopy, there’s a lot that are currently clogging up storm drains. These are the key leaves to make sure get into bags this weekend. Priority should also be given to leaves that are at intersections and cross-walks.

Bagged leaves can be left on parkways for pickup after November 14th.  Share your photos on Facebook @Graceland West Community Association, on Instagram @graceland_west_gwca or by emailing info@gracelandwest.org to enter to win the GOLDEN RAKE AWARD which can be proudly displayed as a Graceland West badge of honor and defended when the leaves fall next year.

Street Leaves on Greenview 11/12/21
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9th Annual Street Leaf Cleanup

The GWCA 9th annual volunteer street leaf cleanup is a very fun community event that gives us one last opportunity to enjoy the beautiful autumn weather and connect with our neighbors. Starting on Tuesday 11/9 which is after the final street sweep and culminating on Sunday 11/14, this effort helps keep our storm drains clear and reduces street, basement and vehicle flooding.  Let’s break last year’s record of 483 full bags!

Bagged leaves can be left on parkways for pickup after November 14th.  Share your photos on Facebook @Graceland West Community Association, on Instagram @graceland_west_gwca or by emailing info@gracelandwest.org to enter to win the GOLDEN RAKE AWARD which can be proudly displayed as a Graceland West badge of honor and defended when the leaves fall next year.

Come join us at the pumpkin smash on Saturday, November 6th to pick up a leaf bag for your Graceland West street leaves.

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Pumpkin Smash

GREEN Halloween!  Lake View High School, the University of Illinois Extension, Lake Shore Recycling Systems and the Department of Streets and Sanitation are hosting a Pumpkin Smash event for residents to compost their pumpkins post-Halloween and keep them out of the landfill! The event is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, November 6 at Lake View High School, located in the parking lot off of Greenview and Irving Park. Pumpkins must be free of candles, stickers, glitter, yarn, synthetic decorations. We can compost pumpkins decorated with water-based paints.  More info found in your favorite metaverse http://go.illinois.edu/pumpkinsmash, GWCA Facebook Event, Nextdoor, GWCA website.

If you are in the Graceland West neighborhood, please come see us at the pumpkin smash to pick up a leaf bag for our 9th annual volunteer street leaf cleanup which begins on November 9th.

GWCA 9th Annual Volunteer Street Leaf Cleanup

The GWCA 9th annual volunteer street leaf cleanup is a very fun community event that gives us one last opportunity to enjoy the beautiful autumn weather and connect with our neighbors.  This effort helps keep our storm drains clear and reduces street, basement and vehicle flooding.  Let’s break last year’s record of 483 full bags!

Bagged leaves can be left on parkways for pickup after November 14th.  Share your photos on Facebook @Graceland West Community Association, on Instagram @graceland_west_gwca or by emailing info@gracelandwest.org to enter to win the GOLDEN RAKE AWARD which can be proudly displayed as a Graceland West badge of honor and defended when the leaves fall next year.

Come join us at the pumpkin smash on Saturday, November 6th to pick up a leaf bag for your Graceland West street leaves.

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Gratitude – 8th Annual Volunteer Street Leaf Cleanup

WOW!  What a fantastic neighborhood effort!  This, our largest annual volunteer effort, broke all records.  Hundreds of neighbors raked and bagged 483 bags of street and crosswalk leaves with some sidewalk and parkway leaves included.  Thank you to all who volunteered including the GWCA Council Members, Street Leaf Cleanup Committee and Block Reps who led this effort and the crew from Aramark at Lake View High School.  If you have photos, feel free to share on Facebook and Instagram @graceland_west_gwca.

This effort will help reduce street flooding, make neighborhood walking less slippery for all and make shoveling snow for parking spaces easier.

Streets and Sanitation picked up bagged leaves from parkways on Tuesday, Nov 17. If you’ve still got leaves to bag, please call 311 or Alderman Martin’s office for a special bagged pickup. As a reminder, it is illegal to rake or blow leaves into the street and you may be fined for violating city ordinance according to Sec. 10-8-480, which covers anything being littered in the public way. If you see a landscaping company or resident raking/blowing leaves into the street, you may alert Alderman Martin’s office.

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