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Celebrating Years Neighborhood Guide 2015-2016 50CELEBRATING YEARS NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDE 2015-2016 table of contents Andersonville Chamber of Commerce and Andersonville Development Corporation..... 2 Special Events ......... .3 - 4 A Short History of Andersonville ........ .5 - 7 Business Guide by Category: Shopping ......... .8 - 11 Drinks & Dining .... 12 - 14 Culture, Entertainment & Recreation . 14 - 16 Health & Wellness .. .16 - 21 Services ......... 20 - 27 Community Resources . 28 - 32 Alphabetical Listing of Businesses . 34 - 36 Andersonville Map .. center insert This Andersonville Neighborhood Guide was printed on recycled paper using soy based inks. Drinking. & Dining. Serving Better Beers, Fine Wines & Belgian Specialties since 1992. Famous Mussels & Frites. Now with expanded Seating and open at Noon every day for Lunch! 5148 N.Clark St. 21 & Over Only hopleaf.com G 773-334-9851 Andersonville Chamber of Commerce Andersonville Chamber Secretary Andersonville of Commerce Lynn Mooney Development Corporation 5314 North Clark Street, #2F Women & Children First 5314 North Clark Street, #2F Chicago, Illinois 60640 Chicago, Illinois 60640 phone 773-728-2995 Karin Moen Abercrombie phone 773-728-7552 fax 773-728-6488 Swedish American Museum fax 773-728-6488 www.andersonville.org www.andersonville.org/devcorp Searah Deysach Early to Bed Executive Director Executive Director Ellen Shepard Ronna Hoffberg Ellen Shepard [email protected] Audience Logic [email protected] Director of Economic Carol Jones Credits Development & Business Jill Metz & Associates This guide is a service of the Services Andersonville Chamber of Nick Wolff Jim Jostes Commerce. A portion of the [email protected] Room Service funding for this guide was Director of Marketing Barbara Laing provided by Andersonville Jessica Hammer Painted Light Photography & Special Service Area #22, a [email protected] Framing Gallery funding pool created by the commercial property owners Office Manager JT Murray of Andersonville in order to Rachael Burs Murray and White provide area beautification, [email protected] marketing, and other key Karen Rose services. Board of Directors City Olive Co-Presidents Gracie Whalen Activities of the Andersonville Barbara Janusek Jameson Loves Danger Chamber of Commerce are State Farm Insurance funded in part by the City Ashley Wright of Chicago Department of Greg Katzman Hamburger Mary’s Business Affairs & Consumer Waddell and Reed Protection. Emeritus Board Vice-President Erica Yuen Jan Baxter Photography by North Side Federal Savings Starbelly Studios. Ingvar Wikstrom Treasurer Wikstrom’s Gourmet Foods Mark Robertson The SoFo Tap 2 — Andersonville Neighborhood Guide 2015 - 2016 Andersonville Special Events 2015-2016 Midsommarfest in Andersonville June 10, 11 & 12, 2016 Andersonville Farmers Market Featuring a revolving line-up of local brews, Wednesdays one stage of live music, and dozens of 3-8 pm May 20 – September 2 vendors, Andersonville’s City Made Fest will 3-7 pm September 9 – October 14 invite participants from across Chicago to Celebrate summer and the bounty of the local celebrate its exceptional artisan community harvest at the Andersonville Farmers Market and the breweries that are making some by picking up some fresh, sustainably grown of the nation’s best beers right in our own produce, baked goods, and more. The market backyards. also features entertainment for all ages, environmental programming, and other fun Andersonville Arts Weekend activities. October 9-11, 2015 Get your creative juices flowing by celebrating Andersonville Summer Sidewalk Sale Andersonville’s artistic community and July 24-26, 2015 fabulous array of locally-owned businesses. The sidewalks will be lined with a splendid Features original artwork by dozens of local array of specialty gifts, clothing, and more artists showcased in businesses and galleries from your favorite Andersonville stores. Come throughout the neighborhood, plus a variety of find a great bargain at our annual summer live shows and performances. sidewalk sale! Andersonville Dessert Crawl Taste of Andersonville Dinner Crawl October 25, 2015 August 12, 2015 It’s trick-or-treating with a gourmet flair! Over Tempt your taste buds as you explore twenty neighborhood restaurants showcase Andersonville’s diverse and award-winning their sweetest and most delicious wares on restaurants! Sample delicious fare from all this evening stroll through Andersonville. of your Andersonville favorites, and maybe discover a few surprises as you travel through Late Night Andersonville the neighborhood. December 4, 2015 For four hours only, your favorite Andersonville Andersonville City Made Fest stores and restaurants will be open late and September 12 & 13, 2015 offering great discounts on distinctive gifts Join us for the third year of our newest and delectable meals, plus complimentary festival celebrating Chicago craft beer, refreshments and entertainment. Chicago music, and Chicago artisans! events continue on the next page www.andersonville.org — 3 Andersvonville Special Events 2015-2016 continued St. Lucia Festival of Lights December 13, 2015 Julmarknad Andersonville Honors December 5 & 6, 2015 April, 2016 The Swedish “Christmas Market” celebration Celebrate the local, unique, green and centers on the crafts and performers at diverse Andersonville business community the Swedish American Museum, but shops at the fourth annual Andersonville Honors throughout Andersonville feature holiday awards ceremony. Featuring great food festivities to entice shoppers. and drink, live music, and a fantastic silent auction. St. Lucia Festival of Lights December 13, 2015 Andersonville Wine Walk The festival of St. Lucia is a Sicilian tradition May 15, 2016 adopted by the Swedes, a celebration of lights Co-sponsored by In Fine Spirits, the prevailing over the darkest time of the year. annual Wine Walk is one big wine tasting Each year the specially chosen Lucia girls throughout the neighborhood. Please lead a torchlit procession down the sidewalks your palate with over 30 wines in different of Clark Street, with the Swedish American Andersonville retail shops. Your specially Museum hosting caroling and refreshments printed wine glass is your ticket, and a after, followed by a special Lucia service at tasting booklet helps you keep track of Ebenezer Lutheran Church. notes and flavors. Late-er Night Andersonville Midsommarfest December 18, 2015 June 10, 11 & 12, 2016 Are you a procrastinator when it comes to One of Chicago’s oldest and most beloved holiday shopping? Then join us for our second street festivals, Midsommarfest features night of Late Night Andersonville, just a little two and a half days of music on five “late-er” than usual. For four more hours, take stages, dancing, kids’ entertainment, and advantage of the same discounts from Late delicious food. Vendors from around the Night Andersonville, plus once again enjoy region sell their wares to passers-by, while free entertainment and refreshments. ethnic dance troupes and cutting-edge bands keep the party going. andersonville.org | /andersonville | /avillechamber | /avillechamber 4 — Andersonville Neighborhood Guide 2015 - 2016 A Short History of Andersonville Andersonville’s roots as a community from delis to hardware stores, shoe extend well back into the 19th century, stores to blacksmiths, and bakeries to when immigrant Swedish farmers realty companies. The local churches, started moving north into what was such as Ebenezer Lutheran Church, then a distant suburb of Chicago. In Bethany Methodist Episcopal Church, the 1850s the area north of Foster First Evangelical Free Church and St. and east of Clark was a large cherry Gregory’s Roman Catholic Church, were orchard, and families had only begun also built by Swedes, and reflected the to move into the fringes of what is now religious diversity of the new arrivals. Andersonville. The neighborhood’s first school, the Andersonville School, was Like most other European-American built in 1854 at the corner of those two ethnic groups, Swedes began to thoroughfares, and served as the area’s move to the suburbs during the primary school until 1908. Depression and post-war periods, and the neighborhood began to decline. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Concerned about the deteriorating wooden homes were outlawed in commercial situation, the Uptown Clark Chicago. Swedish immigrants, who Street Business Association renewed could not afford to build homes of its commitment to its Swedish heritage stone or brick, began to move outside by renaming itself the Andersonville of the city’s northern limits. Swedish Chamber of Commerce. On October 17, immigrants continued to arrive in 1964, Andersonville was rededicated in Andersonville through the beginning of a ceremony attended by Chicago Mayor the 20th century, settling in the newly Richard J. Daley and Illinois Governor built homes surrounding Clark Street. Otto Kerner. The following summer, the Before long, the entire commercial strip annual Swedish tradition of celebrating was dominated by Swedish businesses, the summer solstice blossomed into www.andersonville.org — 5 A Short History of Andersonville continued continued from the previous page Immigration and the 2009 renovation Midsommarfest, which has since grown of the lobby and façade. into one of Chicago’s largest and most popular street festivals. In the late 1980s, Andersonville began a period of revival as new groups While some of the Swedish-owned discovered its lovely housing stock, businesses gave way to
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