As a member of Lincoln Central Association, count yourself one of a select few. Membership hovers around 250 in a neighborhood whose residents number in the thousands.

Your Board of Directors thinks it’s time the low number moves upward. But board members know LCA membership won’t grow unless there is a joining of forces to increase membership. The subject got good attention at your board’s last meeting. A heady question kept cropping up:

Why is membership in LCA important? Fair question deserving of good answers. READ MORE

Lincoln Central Association's 2010 annual meeting and election was recently held at Bacino's Restaurant on Lincoln Ave. Some 30 members and directors attended. Alderman Vi Daley and staff assistant Chuck Eastwood also were present.

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The main order of business was the election of two new members to the board ... READ MORE

But bicycles?

Not hardly, at least not in Chicago's Lincoln Park area. Don't be so sure in the future, though. That's because the Dutch Bike Co. opened shop last fall at 651 West Armitage. Sales and traffic have been, if you will, biking along very nicely since day one. READ MORE

Lincoln Park Zoo's transformation of the South Pond into Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo is nearly complete.

The old, crumbling concrete-and-steel walkway that lined the pond has been removed, enabling the construction of natural shorelines and the new, namesake boardwalk. The pond's island has been re-engineered to provide a welcoming home for migratory birds, including the endangered black-crowned night herons that nest there. The foundation has been laid for the Peoples Gas Education Pavilion, and the pond's Lester E. Fisher Bridge is being restored. READ MORE

Join your neighbors at Bauler Playlot (Wisconsin and Cleveland) on Saturday, April 17, from 9am to noon for the Earth Day Clean-Up hosted by Friends of the Parks in partnership with the Chicago Park District and the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. READ MORE