I've been meaning to run this photo for awhile. It's one of the new buildings popping up on the Loyola University campus. This was taken from the Pratt Pier. It's a nice day everyone, go take a walk, ride or jog by the lake. Check out the view for yourself. It's a beauty.
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As a Loyola student, I'm proud to say my school is doing a lot for the community in south Rogers Park. I'm not sure we'd be seeing an improvement at all on the east side of the neighborhood if it wasn't for the university. Go Ramblers!
PS - The building you see is the new information commons which will link the library and chapel. It will be open 24 hours and will not only be "green' friendly, but will feature all glass windows to enjoy the lakeside view.
> my school is doing a lot for the community in south Rogers Park
like what?
Hugh, Please stop blindsiding the loyal Loyola students with tough questions.
Loyola takes too much credit for the improvement of the area, especially since they are doing it on the the taxpayer's dime (Loyola TIF)and taking many buildings off the tax rolls.
Loyola has been here for 100 years, and did not prevent the neighborhood from becoming blighted to begin with. I'm not the only one who notices that major universities tend to cause blight in surrounding neighborhoods; reknown urbanist Jane Jacobs remarked on this in her landmark book THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES. Loyola contributes pretty buildings and it also contributes a large, transient population of renters who tend to be unkind to their buildings.
I like Loyola, but I verily believe that the improvement that has occurred in the past 10 years is because of all the Lincoln Park and Lakeview refugees who have been priced out of those areas, like myself. Additionally, many other people are moving back to the city and inner suburbs to escape from suburban sprawl with the resulting long commute times and lack of urban amenities.
Again, a major university is a nice thing to have around, but that does not mean it should be supported by the taxpayers or given a pass on the Lakefront Protection Ordinance.
Alot of us students were pissed about this building since they put it up on the Jes Res lawn, one of the only green areas on campus, nice field there right on the lake.
The school is making alot of changes, new art building on devon, gonna tear down the old art buildign and put up luxury rentals, refurbing the chapel, etc.
Also, when I was a student there for the four years of undergrad, most kids didnt go into rogers park, they went to wrigleyville, downtown, or eveanston to spend their money. There really isnt much of anything for students to do around campus except go and drink too much at Hamiltons. We were gonan start a Hookah bar, until another group put one in at our spot across from Hamiltons. There is alot of money to be had from the group for the community but no one seems willing to try and go after it.
What's a beauty is that after I obtain my valuable 'Loyola, Chicago's Jesuit University' degree I'll have the financial capability to pack my bags and relocate to a ward where my only concerns will be that of which designer boutiques I will shop at.
...ahh yes, the grass is always greener on the other side...
OT-I'm in Salem, Mass tonight...looking for witches. I was in Boothbay Harbor for the weekend, then Portland. Tomorrow I'm going to the Red Sox game. Gotta go...the witches and I are goin' to da bar to watch the CUBS!
THe interesting reality about this building is I think it is facing East. All of the significant building on the campus face the lake.
did you know that originaly the campus was going to face Lake Shore Drive.
the people of Rogers Park along with Mayor Richard J Daley put a quick end to the loss of the beach front in Rogers Park. I hope this
new building isnt a sign that Lake Shore Drive is going to be redirected into the lake
The travesty is the high rise corridor from Hollywood North
I can remember my parents commenting on hoew the hig rise destroyed the neighborhood
Loyole is Chit. They have not done one thing to make RP better. These idiots are the ones that vote for JoMo. And Orr before him. Everything around this campus looks like shit. How about that great Arts Center aka Dennys. What a joke. Way to go Loyola, keep up the fucked up work.
Notice that Devon Ave looks even more abondoned and depressed since the inception of the Loyola TIF.
And Sheridan Road from Devon to Albion looks sad and decrepit.
I heard a rumor, from the guy at Isam's, that Loyola has purchased half of the laughably overpriced condos at 1200 W Pratt to be used as dormitory space. Wonderful for the hapless condo buyers!! You pay $199K for a matchbox two bed to live an an "Animal House" college dorm. I feel sorry for the poor gulled condo buyers there, if there are any.
Loyola gets to have it both ways. They pay no property taxes but also get tax money handed to them, while being asked to give the taxpayers nothing in return. They have taken many, many apt buildings off the tax rolls.
Hugh (and all other complainers), it doesnt take an idiot to see the quality of buildings are much different around Loyola, it's what some people consider "nice" or I don't know, "not vacant". Inrpbutnot49 is right, you go to other places because Rogers Park has NOTHING to attract most 18-22 year olds. I should have made the comment, "without Loyola, all you people would be complaining 10 times as much" which is hard to imagine... you do realize people think of rogers park as the north side's "south side" neighborhood?! probably because people like you bitch and and then do nothing about it
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