2024 State Grants for the 38th Ward

 Fiscal year 2024 state budget allocations (Public act 103-0006) for the 38th Ward.

Independence Park Advisory Committee presents...Summer Kickoff
3945 N. Springfield
Saturday, June 25th, 10am-1pm
Bounce house, face painting, Arts & Crafts and music
Visit www.independenceparkchicago.com for details.

Discover Dunning Banner Program

Belmont Heights Businesses, buy banners! Give back by beautifying your community and making it a more vital and vibrant place. The Dunning Neighborhood Organization's Banner Program is making street lightpole banners available for sale at the low, low price of $225. Your business logo (or family name) can appear at the bottom of the banner. It's basically 24/7 promotion for your business for less than 62¢ a day. Good deal, but more importantly your sponsorship help declare community identity and pride. You can buy banners at http://www.dunningneighborhood.org/banners. Read all about it at http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150601/dunning/new-banners-dunning-designed-prompt-second-look.

Annual Block Sale 3600 N Osceola

This is big. Check out the annual block long rummage sale on the 3600 block of North Osceola. Whatever it is you're looking for, they're probably going to have it.

Sat, May 30, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
3600 N Osceola Ave 3600 N Osceola Ave, Chicago, IL, United States
Please stop by and check out the sale!

Maker Lab Pops Up at the Dunning Library

This is cool. Make a tchotchke or a heart valve at the pop-up maker lab at the Dunning Library.

Ride the Bobs Again...in your own mind!

Neat event at the Dunning Library reminisces the good old days at Riverview.

Dunning Street Banners

Promote community identity, pride, and local business by sponsoring a street banner. Banners can be ordered online dunningneighborhood.org/banners.

Help Out on Serious Hit and Run Accident

Community Alert 016th (Jefferson Park) District Hit & Run

Central Investigations Detail
Major Accident Investigation Unit



Alert 608-15-001
February 27, 2015
 Community Alert

Wanted for Leaving the Scene of a
     Personal Injury Traffic Crash
      016th ( Jefferson Park) District

About This Crime
On Tuesday, February 16, 2015, at approximately 6:25 p.m., a 55-year-old female was struck by an unknown vehicle while crossing the street on 3400 Block of North Harlem Ave.  As a result of the crash, the victim sustained serious personal injuries and is being treated at an area hospital in critical condition.  The driver of the striking vehicle fled the scene of the crash without identifying himself / herself or rendering aid to the victim.

About The Offending Vehicle
Pieces of a Toyota headlamp assembly and a blue/gray passenger side mirror were recovered at the scene.


Help is needed from the community in solving this crime. The Major Accident Investigation Unit encourages anyone who witnessed or has any information about this crash to contact Investigator Michael Deneen #19012 at:
312-745-4521.
Reference:  RD# HY-162664

Dibs is for Dopes!

Be a good neighbor, take your garbage off the street.

ComEd Smart Meters Coming to Dunning Soon

Our area is among the first to have smart electric meters installed. The dates are little contradictory on the ComEd web site, but nevertheless it looks like they'll be complete deployment in this area before spring. Also visit the Citizen's Utility Board site for more information.

Upcoming 38th Ward Aldermanic Race Analysis

More trenchant analysis from Russ Stewart. It looks like the 2015 aldermanic elections will be quite heated in our corner of the city. Read all about it at russstewart.com.

Dunning Neighborhood Organization Holiday Party

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City's Electric Aggregation Program a Good Deal? Looks Like Not.

The city has partnered with Integrys to provide electricity to the City. You probably got the mailing. Your account will automatically get transferred (didn't this used to be called "slamming?") if you don't explicitly opt-out by Halloween. Do yourself a favor right away. Go to http://www.chicagopowercalculator.com to find out whether this will be a good deal for you. You'll enter the amount of electricity you used last winter and spring. You can get this information from http://www.comed.com if you haven't saved your bills.

I did the calculation and it turns out that by allowing my electricity account to be transferred will cause my monthly bill to almost double. I'm mailing my opt-out form today.

Sign-Up To NextDoor.com

With the abrupt passing of EveryBlock, there's been a real void in the neighborhood news/citizen journalist space. NextDoor.com is one of several sites trying to fill the void (main other is WikiBlock). NextDoor is different in that you can only belong to and track your neighborhood's newsgroup. No anonymous members (ahem). It has a pilot Belmont Heights group but it need six more members to join before June 20. It seems interesting.

Summer Cinema Scene Stumbles

With the Portage suddenly locked by its owner Eddie Carranza and the Patio closing in the summer due to a broken air conditioning system (still open now happily), our local cinema culture scene comes to a stumbling halt. Bummer indeed.