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David Doig
David Doig

Proposed $32 Million Community Center Near Washington Park Goes Before Neighbors For Support

Space for arts and music, a café, rentable offices, athletic courts, programs for older people, a demonstration kitchen and much more are planned for the $32 million center.

Hyde Park, Woodlawn, South Shore

Pullman’s One Eleven Food Hall To Become Lexington Betty Smokehouse As BBQ Spot Grows Into Full-Size Restaurant

Lexington Betty Smokehouse owner Dominique Leach is taking over the food hall after other businesses left.

Roseland, Pullman

Culver’s In Pullman Opens Next Week

The Culver's at 111th Street and Doty Avenue is the latest company to come to Pullman as local leaders try to boost the neighborhood's economy.

Roseland, Pullman

Michael Reese Megadevelopment Approved By City Council, Clearing Way For Apartments, Retail, Park And New Pavilion

The $3.8 billion project will overhaul Bronzeville land that has been sitting empty for more than a decade.

Bronzeville, Near South Side

Culver’s Breaks Ground In Pullman As Push To Bring More Business To Neighborhood Rolls On

Baron Waller and business partner Ronald Wells were enticed to the site with a $250,000 grant from the city's Neighborhood Opportunity Fund,

Roseland, Pullman

Pullman Investment, Including 1,500 New Jobs In 10 Years, Could Serve As Model, Study Says

Next week's ribbon-cutting of a new Amazon distribution center is the latest investment in the Far South Side community.

Roseland, Pullman

35 Historic But Vacant Pullman Row Houses To Be Rehabbed And Sold

The homes are part of the Pullman railroad company's historic neighborhood but have fallen into disrepair.

Roseland, Pullman

South Side Businesses Get A Chance To Rebuild Thanks To Activist’s Grant Program

The Small Business Repair Program aims to keep Black businesses alive after many were looted and vandalized in early June.

Englewood, Chatham, Auburn Gresham

Small Business Repair Fund Created For Damaged South Side Neighborhoods

The nonprofit Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives set up what it hopes to be a $100,000 relief fund.

Roseland, Pullman

Lexington Betty Smokehouse Opens In Pullman Food Hall As Neighborhood Pushes For More Businesses

“We talk about what we don’t have, but we need to start bragging about what we do have, and that is a new smokehouse in the 9th Ward," Ald. Anthony Beale said.

Roseland, Pullman

Lexington Betty Smokehouse Opening In Pullman Food Hall

"I want to be living proof to other women and girls that look like me that we can have our own companies and create them from the bottom up,” said owner Dominique Leach.

Roseland, Pullman

South Side’s First Food Hall Opens In Pullman Featuring 3 African-American Chefs: ‘We Did Something Here. We Really Did’

Laine's Bake Shop, Exquisite Catering and Events and Majani Soulful Vegan Cuisine set up shop in the 111th Gateway Retail Center.

Roseland, Pullman

Huge New Pullman Distribution Center Will Be South Side’s Largest Speculative Project In Decades

The 400,000-square-foot building will be near Method soap, Gotham Greens and a Whole Foods distributor.

Roseland, Pullman

$20 Million ‘Game Changer’ Pullman Community Center Set To Open Thursday

Built on vacant land, the huge new indoor complex has three full-sized fields, basketball courts and community areas.

Roseland, Pullman