CHICAGO — Creepy deer heads, pumpkin pie and soccer were some of the subjects of this week's neighborhood stories.
• If you're worried about the upcoming generation's sense of civic duty, meet these Boy Scouts from Lakeview.
During a visit with students from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy on Monday, State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago) spoke with the youngsters about the legislative process.
To demonstrate how a bill becomes law, she showed them House Bill 208, which seeks to designate pumpkin pie as the official state pie of Illinois.
The boys let their views on the issue be known.
• Wicker Park creative staple The Silver Room is leaving its Milwaukee Avenue location for Hyde Park.
The reason, owner Eric Williams said, is because Wicker Park has changed.
"Tacos and beer work in this neighborhood — and sports bars. That seems to be the formula. There is not as much respect for arts and creativity and individuality as there used to be. Many of the Silver Room people have moved away," Williams said.
• File this under "let's make this happen."
The Chicago Park District is debating building a wave-powered pipe organ as part of a plan to add nearly 7 acres to the south lakeshore.
• Speaking of Lake Michigan, this happened near the lakefront this week.
We're still trying to figure it out, but so are these guys:
• This Rogers Park art installation might also creep people out, but we also know what's up with it.
Pilsen-based artist plans Benjamin Keddy to use a projector and a Kinect motion-tracking device, commonly used with video game consoles, to display a 3D scene onto the sidewalk-facing windows of a storefront adjacent to Sol Cafe, 1615 W. Howard St., next month.
• Last week, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa overwhelmingly defeated Ald. Rey Colon to become the upcoming 35th Ward alderman.
At 26 years old, Ramirez-Rosa is young. But he's not the youngest alderman in Chicago's history.
That honor goes to one of Chicago's most famous colonels: Robert McCormick.
• A proposal to build a regulation soccer field at Irving Park's Schurz High School has been dropped. The principal blames it on politics — a sort of "political futbol" — if you will. (We had to do it.)
• But at Nettelhorst School in Lakeview, soccer is all about math. Read about how Northwestern University students are teaching kids about geometry by using the "beautiful game."
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