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July 15, 1989. While tens thousands of Houstonian Gen Xers won’t necessarily recall what they were doing on that date, mention “The Bangles Beltway 8” concert, and that might trigger a memory. A ...

Chicago’s Edgewater and Logan Square neighborhoods could soon see new apartment towers 100% dedicated to affordable housing, according to documents filed with the City Council’s zoning committee.

A building in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood is on track to be transformed from public offices into affordable housing. Chicago-based Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation has proposed constructing ...

A yellow brick sidewalk 200 feet long will be completed this week outside a Humboldt Park affordable housing cluster to commemorate L. Frank Baum, who lived on the site when he wrote “The Wonderful ...

In the autumn of 1989, and just six months after their irrepressibly pretty “Eternal Flame” had hit the top of the charts the world over, The Bangles imploded. It had been an intense run. Three years ...

A nonprofit developer and the city have joined forces to fight off a group of landlords bent on blocking an affordable housing project next to the Logan Square Blue Line Station. The city and ...

Music historian Bickerdike (Being Britney) traces in excruciating detail the rise and fall of the 1980s all-female rock band the Bangles. Sisters Debbi and Vicki Peterson grew up in a music-loving ...

In the pantheon of ‘80s bands, The Bangles are among the most underappreciated. Recalled primarily for their chirpy Prince-penned ditty “Manic Monday,” the silly – albeit fun – video for “Walk Like an ...

For members of The Bangles, the quintessential all-female band of the 1980s, “Walk Like An Egyptian” was an aberration — not just a departure from their rock-influenced roots, but running counter to ...

TYLER — Joyce Hendrix Bickerdike, 82, of Tyler, went to be with her Lord on Monday, June 7th, 2021 after a difficult journey with Lewy Body Dementia. Joyce was born in Tyler on August 13, 1938, a ...