Block Club Chicago
UPTOWN — The laundry machines are finally working.
After a three-year fight, residents of a low-income Chicago Housing Authority building for older people have fully functioning washing machines and dryers.
Now, residents at the Ella Flagg Young Apartments are hoping the CHA addresses other longstanding problems with their building.
UKRAINIAN VILLAGE — Zoryana Smozhanyk was 10 when she moved with her family to Chicago from Ukraine, green cards in hand, to start a new life.
As Smozhanyk got older, entered military service and set down roots in the city, her fondest memories of her childhood in Ukraine — passing a yard teeming with chickens on her way to school, for instance — began to fade. She felt increasingly disconnected to her home country, she said.