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Sept. 24-30, 2003

photo by Jennifer Girard Photography Fighting homelessness Jessica Lagrange, Chair of the More Than A Roof Gala 2003, congratulates Cary Frank, left, and Martin Gapshis, who will be honored at the Oct. 3 event. For the past five years, Frank and Gapshis have co-chaired the Celebration of Home & Garden Tour, which benefits Lakefront Supportive Housing. Under their guidance, the annual celebrations have raised over a half million dollars. Lagrange and Frank are both Lincoln Park residents.

Brad Nelson Winters: Wake information

Lakefront Supportive Housing sponsors gala

Generous donation The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum gave 20 computers to help Lincoln Park Shelter, the Anixter Center and the Infant Welfare Society.

Lincolnparkconnect.com makes first connection

Alcott School 4th Annual Harvest Fest Oct. 5

Racing to save homeless pets' lives

Buy peanuts, help Kiwanis Richard Rush stands with young volunteers preparing for the annual Kiwanis Peanut Day Friday, Sept. 26. Across the city, volunteers in bright aprons will be selling peanuts, collecting money to assist the Kiwanis Club in its many charitable functions.

Vintage watch store opens on Lincoln Ave.

Arts Funding Seminar

Art De Triumph to expand

photo by Liz Lauren VGT presents lush, romantic play Dale Rivera plays the lector, Juan Julian, who catches the eye of Conchita, played by Charin Alvarez, in Victory Gardens Theater's season opener, Nilo Cruz' "Anna in the Tropics." Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Anna in the Tropics" is a lush, romantic play about Cuban-American cigar factory workers in 1929 in Ybor City, FL, whose routine is disrupted forever with the arrival of the handsome new "lector," whose job is to read literature to the workers as they roll cigars. The all-Chicago Latino cast also features Sandra Delgado as Marela, Eddie Torres as Palomo, Sandra Marquez as Ofelia, Gustavo Mellado as Santiago, and Ricardo Gutierrez as Cheche. Nilo Cruz is the first Hispanic playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize. Henry Godinez, Artistic Associate at the Goodman Theatre, directs this Midwest premiere. "Anna in the Tropics" runs through Oct. 26. Tickets are $22-$35. Call the Victory Gardens box office at (773) 871-3000 for tickets and information, or purchase tickets online at Ticketweb.com.

Local author helps students land jobs in a tough market

Graber elected director of financial institutions trade group

Operation Able, Inc. unveils new mission, new name

Attract migratory birds to your yard this fall

Mentor for girls Michi Pena, First Deputy Commissioner/Chief Information Officer for the City of Chicago and Lincoln Park resident, was one of several mentors participating in the recent AT&T Young Women in Technology Camp at Loyola University Chicago, a program designed to encourage high school girls to pursue careers in math, science and engineering.