Edgewater

And through CDOT's school zone program, we take a comprehensive look at traffic safety in the streets surrounding our schools, and then we work with the school leaders and community partners to make the streets safer for students and all of our families.

The mayor's office says similar improvements were made this year outside schools in Albany Park, West Garfield Park, West Lawn, and Edgewater.

Uh, two Chicago police officers have been honored with Officer of the Month awards.

Officer Anthony Sanchez helped save a woman from choking during a demonstration in August, and Sergeant Cristoria King found four people clinging to a sinking boat in Lake Michigan on the Fourth of July and pulled them all to safety.

And Adora, we don't often talk about real estate on the city, but sometimes there are really fascinating stories on this beat.

And up in Edgewater over the last year, there's been this move to essentially bring more housing, more development to a really important intersection, Thorndale and Sheridan.

Tell me more about this development, and why has it sparked a debate in the community?

Absolutely.

That's also at the northern end of, what is that, like, Thorndale Avenue Beach, Osterman Beach-

Mm-hmm

... up there in Edgewater.

And right at that intersection, as we point out, that, that is the entrance to that beach.

But they are evidence that playwright Eliza Bent knows her stuff and delivers it in a pithy, entertaining, and memorable way.

The Rivendell Theater is a small space in Edgewater, on Ridge Avenue.

It's a small space, so I suggest you book your tickets well in advance for Bonnie's last flight.

So without getting into spoilers, you mentioned there's this big, Jan has this big regret.

So it's a liberal district, progressive district.

It consists of, it has a huge chunk of Edgewater and also goes west to Albany Park, Lincoln Square, and it has a lot of uptown as well by the lake.

So this is a district that if I had to rate it, I would say would favor Debbie Pope.

But I know Kenya is working very hard.

We feel it's impossible for any one person to be a representative of their neighborhood, but we find that living in a specific environment will undoubtedly have some kind of impact, whether conscious or not, on an artist's making.

For years, Experimental Sound Studio in Edgewater has commissioned works specifically for the Millennium Park speaker system.

It calls the series Sonic Pavilion.

The studio then encores the winning works in a smaller indoor performance happening in December.

And a reminder that early voting for Chicago voters kicks off downtown on Thursday.

Pedestrians in the Edgewater neighborhood might find it easier to cross a busy street with the addition of a new traffic tool, which is a first of its kind in Chicago.

This will make a real difference here.

This is a complicated intersection.