The McGhee Factor

Reporter Lorraine Swanson writes a great piece today about the coming of The Morse Theatre, due to open next year. It's an exciting project. Lorraine explains why in today's Chicago News-Star: There were at least a dozen other neighborhoods where Andy and Devin McGhee could have located their jazz club and restaurant. Neighborhoods that were already established as destination night spots, with more attractive streetscaping and inviting denizens. Instead, the father-and-son team chose Morse Avenue, where metal grates clamp over storefronts like orthodontia, and blue-light police cameras flash intermittently over the ghost of a once-thriving, neighborhood commercial district after 8 p.m. - Full Story... RELATED: CENTURY THEATRE GETS CONSTRUCTION PERMIT Congregation Beth Israel Anshe Yanova remembered