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Wednesday, June 25, 2025Lincoln Square Zero-Waste Cafe Now Sells Produce From Refugee-Run Neighborhood Farm
Block Club Chicago / by Alex V. Hernandez / June 25, 2025 LINCOLN SQUARE — Produce from a nonprofit farm in Albany Park is now available in the new fresh market at Lincoln Square’s The Eco Cafe. The Global Garden Refugee Training Farm, 4815 N. Sacramento Ave., helps refugee families grow food for themselves and to sell to local vendors. Bethany Barbouti, Mia McCullough and Alexis Chavez opened The Eco Flamingo in 2020 and have since evolved their zero-waste general store to include workshops and
Tuesday, March 11, 2025The Eco Cafe Brings Zero-Waste Coffee Shop To Lincoln Square
Block Club Chicago / by Alex V. Hernandez / March 7, 2025 LINCOLN SQUARE — The owners of Lincoln Square’s zero-waste general store opened their new cafe this week. Bethany Barbouti, Mia McCullough and Alexis Chavez opened The Eco Flamingo in 2020 and have since evolved their zero-waste general store to include workshops and events. Earlier this year, the trio announced their plan to open The Eco Cafe, 4756 N. Rockwell St. The Eco Cafe opened to customers Wednesday. By the following afternoon, nearly
Thursday, March 06, 2025Best zero-waste general store
Chicago Reader / by Kerry Reid / March 6, 2025 Most of us have become accustomed to carrying our own reusable bags to the grocery store. But for going the next step in zero-waste shopping, it’s hard to beat Lincoln Square’s Eco Flamingo, which opened in 2020. Here you can find a carefully curated selection of, as their website says, “package-free, plastic-free, environmentally responsible, cruelty-free, and fair-trade options.” Cofounder Bethany Barbouti says, “We now carry over 400 refillable products
Tuesday, February 25, 2025Anticonquista Café Brings ‘Cultivo-To-Cup’ Coffee To Pilsen
Block Club Chicago / by Francia Garcia Hernandez / February 20, 2025 PILSEN — A Chicago couple known for selling coffee grown on their Honduran and Guatemalan family farm is bringing a brick-and-mortar shop to Pilsen’s 18th Street corridor. Anticonquista Café, a beloved coffee seller at Chicago farmers markets, is set to open March 2 at 952 W. 18th St. The cafe will be open 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, with plans to open daily in the late spring, said co-owners Elmer Fajardo Pacheco and Lauren
Tuesday, January 28, 2025Roman-Style Capriccio Pizzeria, Nirvana Dispensary Coming To Lincoln Square
Block Club Chicago / by Alex V. Hernandez / January 24, 2025 New businesses opening in the neighborhood also include a sustainability-focused cafe and an artisan market from The Green Post and The Northman owners. LINCOLN SQUARE — Four new businesses are opening in Lincoln Square in the coming weeks, including a Roman-style pizza restaurant, a sustainability-focused cafe, an artisan market and the neighborhood’s first weed dispensary. Read More Here.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024Lincoln Square's The Eco Flamingo general store makes zero-waste a reality
93XRT / by Nancy Harty / October 29, 2024 Along the wall of The Eco Flamingo are canisters of nuts, grains, legumes and more, but there are no plastic bags to put them in. General Manager Alexis Chavez said this general store is zero waste. “We allow you to bring in your own container, and you’re just refilling things that we have here instead of going to the store and purchasing something that’s already in plastic or other packaging,” Chavez said. “We’re just helping people reduce their waste.” Read More
Wednesday, September 04, 2024What’s That Building? Old Town School of Folk Music
WBEZ Chicago / by Dennis Rodkin and Haley Bloomquist / September 3, 2024 In the 1990s, a Chicago public library building that had sat unused for a decade got a second life. Or maybe, because of the traditions at the Old Town School of Folk Music, which took over the Art Deco building, it’s more accurate to say it got a Second Half. The building is now a fine place to watch live music — or make some. In the main auditorium, 450-seat Maurer Hall, nobody’s more than 45 feet from the stage, and over that
