Congrats to the McKinley Park neighborhood's La Palapa for plaudits from Eater Chicago for the restaurant's tasty and playful dishes. La Palapa has been a favorite of ours for years! Read about and click to the Chicago Mariscos reviews at https://mckinleypark.news/neighborhood/forums/neighborhood-news/429-la-palapa-pegged-as-top-mariscos-restaurant

Congratulations to Chicago's McKinley Park neighborhood for zero reported crimes on Tues., Aug. 13. Read more at https://mckinleypark.news/neighborhood/forums/neighborhood-talk/427-congrats-for-a-zero-crime-day-on-tues-aug-13

Scares the shit out of me each time.

I live by the park on Seeley. Anyone having an outage?

More points for McKinley Park being one of the best places to live in Chicago/ the US/ North America- how much history there is here.

The park was built on top of a horse race track, the houses you see on stilts were built because this used to be a swamp, the park was intentionally places in a rough working-class urban area to provide people with green space and that inspired the creation of more parks across the city and country.

https://mckinleypark.news/news/opinion-editorial/563-mckinley-park-catalyzed-parks-innovation-across-chicago-and-nation

https://chicagohistorytoday.wordpress.com/tag/mckinley-park/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/summertime-the-bathing-pool-at-mckinley-park-37th-and-damen-1906-chicago--462744930463650105/

Coming from California having spent most of my life in supposedly liberal cities like San Francisco and Berkeley and the moving here after 2020, I’ve been shocked how dominant leftists are in Chicago. At first I thought this kind of leftist extremism was mostly a thing for wealthy white people like Bill Ayers (child of a ComEd CEO and founder of Weather Underground) in places like Evanston.

But then I watched the 12th ward migrant shelter meeting and the rhetoric used by CTU teachers, saying things like “we’re on stolen land” and instead of boos they got thunderous applause.

On the one hand, MAT Asphalt just shows up and pollutes the air against the will of regular people. Most residents seem like apolitical hard-working people who respect each other in one of the few diverse integrated neighborhoods here. A generally quiet place.

On the other, Upton Sinclair wrote his book The Jungle about the Stockyards for a socialist organization. Most streets here have people flying the US flag, but one house flies the flag upside-down and a decent amount fly Palestinian flags and have those DSU posters. So there are at least a handful of very committed radical leftists here.

Can anyone who has grown up and went to school here or lived here a long time speak to the political history of the neighborhood or the values most people hold?

The park statue was vandalized by scumbags this morning. Is there anything we can do besides report it to 311?