Lincoln Square

So on Sunday, December 6th, that is when the holiday baking boot camp will take place.

Both of these camps are at the chopping block in Lincoln Square.

And like I said, you can apply.

So it's high school students and they just need to fill out the application online.

It does.

Underrated North Side record store, Laurie's Planet of Sound, right there in Lincoln Square.

Not there as much as it used to be.

It's not as far, uh, as, like, The Loop for me, but it used to be in my old hood.

Yeah, so we are talking about another location, uh, TBD as to where.

Um, we, we are very cognizant of, there is another store that was our predecessor called Eco Flamingo, um, that is up in Lincoln Square.

They're a great store, so we're always very cognizant of not wanting to step on any other's foots.

There's not many, so it's, it's pretty easy.

I had all these babies, and I paused my academic career.

And then we're living in the Lincoln Square, fantastic neighborhood in Chicago, and I got involved with the local neighborhood group, and it just a focus of that group became reacting to development proposals.

And I got involved with like the YIMBY NIMBY urbanism topics that were happening in my community.

I'm a vice president of our local neighborhood group, and while I was talking about these things, people always say, "Are you an urban planner? Are you an architect?" And I realized that through my studies and living and just my natural interest, I absorbed all this information about architecture and urbanism, and I knew a tremendous amount about it and started writing about it and writing about these urban typologies for a multifamily that's very common in Europe, that's very rare here, that I thought would be a good solution to a lot of the housing problems and development conflicts and frictions that I saw on the north side of Chicago.

So this is something we will continue to follow.

[upbeat music] Yedaenny, over the last couple of weeks here on the show, we have promoted Applefest that took place this past weekend over in Lincoln Square.

I will say I saw a lot of videos that both praised the attendance, and then at the same time were like, "Man, did TikTok and social media ruin Applefest?" Um, please, catch me up here.

What, what happened?

Let them cool.

[laughs]

I do love this idea of maybe next year Applefest popping up in more parts of the city, but it's gonna take a lot of attention to get them even a little bit of the crowd that Lincoln Square has built over the last, as you said, 40 years.

And so, you know.

So you can get there by Metra or you can get there by, uh, CTA.

Is that better than the Lincoln Square one? 'Cause I stopped going.

I used to live in Lincoln Square.

I lived there for seven years.

I loved the Germanfest that was there-

All right.

Let's, um, keep on the festival topic here, Claire, because there was another top spot that folks should have checked out this weekend, which was the Apple Fest in Lincoln Square.

But it may have been too popular.

What happened?

Apple Fest went viral, so to speak.

Uh, the influencers influenced, and the three-day fest often, you know, just sort of takes over a big portion of Lincoln Avenue.

It's, it's Lincoln Square itself all the way up to Lawrence, but then it goes as far south as Sunnyside.

So typically there's cider, there's donuts, there's music, you know, all of the fall fun.

And, uh, great to see our Cloudlings as well.

You know, it's so great to see us all come together in one practice body, sitting in meditation on this kind of nice crisp fall morning where Apple Fest is happening [laughs] in Lincoln Square.

So I hope you could find your way here through that situation.

And I just would-- just wanna let people know that our Eno Jerry is under the weather, and our friend Tom Hurley also is struggling with some physical difficulties, and Jake is on the mend, hopefully after surgery.

I'll always remember and be grateful to Taigen for, for this teaching.

One time long ago in a zendo far away, Taigen was living in California and we were meeting here in Chicago.

And every week or so we'd have a phone call and report on what's happening in the Lincoln Square, or not in Lincoln Square, it's just a zendo.

It was called Chicago Meditation Group or something before we were even called Ancient Dragon.