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Catch a ride on Steel Milly to tour the neighborhood's shopping district, which features solar-powered trash compactors and the first LEED Silver business structure on Commercial Avenue at 8700-9273 S. Commercial Ave.
"Little did Rumbidzai know that her poem would become a piece of art that would serve to illuminate the journey the partner organizations were about to begin." From "Narratives of Hope 'It Starts Within Us': Documenting Development Through Stories of Change", published by Weaver Press. Read more at: www.how-matters.org/2012/04/20/rumbidzai-faith-masawi/
Under the Baobab Tree directly supports education and community development programs in Malawi to help students at the Lilongwe Standard School achieve their dreams. Ivy wants to become a nurse when she grows up, and each donation to Under the Baobab Tree is providing Ivy and others like her with the faculty, facilities and programming needed to help her achieve her dreams. Help UTBT by donating today, either through our website (utbt.org), or via our facebook cause (http://apps.facebook.com/causes/412549/2655318?m=71bb3202).
18th Street
Last Updated by lisc.chicago on Aug 3, 2009
Our 130-year-old commercial district, from Damen Ave. to Halsted Street, has been the spine of the neighborhood with its host of retail shops, restaurants and historically important buildings.
On 18th Street we have Thalia Hall, built in 1892 by the Bohemians, named after a train station in the German port city of Hamburg (the point of departure for many of the neighborhood’s early immigrants) and once the cultural center for the Bohemian community of Chicago.
Pressure from the Chicago Bohemian Community on Woodrow Wilson (US president) led to the creation of the country of Czechoslovakia after World War I, and much of that pressure came from Thalia Hall and St. Procopius Church across the street.
Under the Baobab Tree directly supports education and community development programs in Malawi to help students at the Lilongwe Standard School achieve their dreams. Fatima wants to become a policewoman when she grows up, and each donation to Under the Baobab Tree is providing Fatima and others like her with the faculty, facilities and programming needed to help her achieve her dreams. Help UTBT by donating today, either through our website (utbt.org), or via our facebook cause (http://apps.facebook.com/causes/412549/2655318?m=71bb3202).