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Will the Uptown Theatre Make a Comeback?
The 4,000-seat auditorium, closed for three decades, could make a return. Jam Productions bought the building for $3.2 million at a forced judicial sale in 2008. Jam would need help from the city to restore or rebuild the 46,000-square-foot building, which needs a lot of work.

Photo: The interior of the Uptown Theatre. (Photo purchased from the Theatre Historical Society of America)

Gentrification Threatens Diversity in Uptown
A 2008 study by the Chaddick Institute at DePaul University combining ethnicity, income and age found that Uptown was the most diverse neighborhood in Chicago. But that diverse mix is starting to change as the neighborhood's landscape is changing with gentrification.

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Photo: The Uptown Theatre, which has been closed since 1981. (Photo by James Mazurek)

Mapping Shows Ties Between Violent Crime, Drug Crime in Uptown Neighborhood
Discussion of gangs, violent crime and drugs have been all but absent in recent Chicago mayoral and aldermanic debates, but some residents in the Uptown neighborhood say the topic needs to be front and center. These maps, updated weekly, show ties between violent and drug-related crimes throughout the North Side neighborhood.

Slam Poetry a Blue-Collar Chicago Movement at North Side Club
Most days and nights, the Green Mill Lounge in the Uptown neighborhood is full of bar patrons and concert-goers listening to everything from swing to jump jazz. But on Sundays, the one-time prohibition bar is transformed into the Uptown Poetry Slam, a collection of poets, musicians and other creatives.