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Article: Chicago's bloggiest nabe; Zoning and parking and crime -- oh my! propel Rogers Park
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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It's a cool spring evening, and four bloggers and I are sitting
outside at the Cafe Ennui in East Rogers Park, huddled against the
cold air that slices off the lake and cuts up the block to Sheridan
Road where it lands squarely between our shoulder blades.
It's getting dark, and it is definitely getting cold, but we
persist at sitting outside because this is East Rogers Park -- we
are stubborn -- and three of the five of us smoke.
Where else in the city would the smokers outnumber the clean-
lung crowd?
While other North Side lakefront Chicago neighborhoods have
soared to fashionable heights of rapid appreciation featuring cheery
3-bedroom homes, an SUV or two, two children, two cats, ...