Wishing you a Happy New Year

Monthly Calendar

Jan. 1 New Years Day

Jan. 3 General Meeting

Jan. 14 Installation Dinner

Jan. 20 Board Meeting

Business of the Month

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Economic Development

A Circle K convenience store is planning to open inside the former 7-Eleven at Milwaukee and Austin avenues.

Alderman Jim Gardiner, the board of the Gladstone Park Neighborhood Association and some nearby residents recently met with the owner of the planned store to discuss a plan of operation for the liquor sales. The plan will likely include restrictions on the hours which liquor can be sold and a possible ban on certain products, such as single-serve bottles of alcohol.

Plans of operation are becoming more and more common as part of the licensing process. The plan will become a condition of the liquor license, giving the city the authority to enforce the agreed upon conditions.

The owner reportedly managed a local convenience store for 10 years.

Welcome Fabian and Son

The Gladstone Park Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting with Alderman Samantha Nugent to welcome Fabian and Son HVAC to the Gladstone Park community.

Holiday Decorating Contest Winners

The Gladstone Park Chamber of Commerce has been encouraging Business’s on Milwaukee Avenue to light up their storefronts for the past couple years in order to help create a more festive holiday atmosphere. This is just another effort in our goal to make Gladstone Park a destination place, a place where people come to see the festive lights and end up staying to frequent our great establishments. This year we decided to up our game and make it a competition. Dave Wians, State Farm, offered to sponsor a contest with the top 3 vote-getters winning cash prizes.

Here’s how it went:

We had 3 impartial judges: a resident, a business owner on Milwaukee Ave and a business owner off of Milwaukee Ave.

They were judged in 3 categories:

· Light Display (Clark Griswold worthy)

· Window Decoration: Traditional display that captured the classic Christmas motif

· Overall Holiday Décor.

The Judges ranked each business based on a 1-5 star scale, 1 Star being good effort and 5 stars being outstanding display and being Gladstone Park Light-Fight worthy. Businesses did not need to be Gladstone Park Chamber of Commerce members.

What a great response from the business community!!!

Thank you to everyone who made our community look so festive!

The top 10 businesses that went the extra mile are as follows, not in any particular order:

Jet’s Public House

Altima Title

Wintrust Bank

Thee European Spa

The Garage Bar & Sandwiches

Malec & Sons Funeral Home

Allstate- Jamie Morales

A Midwest Kitchen

United Insurance

Andy’s Deli

Morzano’s Art Gallery

And the winners were . . .

1 ^st Place: Jet’s Public House $125

2 ^nd Place: Allstate, Jaime Morales $100

3 ^rd Place: Malec & Sons Funeral Home $75

Jet's Public House

Allstate Jaime Morales

Malec & Son Funeral Home

Deadline Extended!!!

Join us for our annual Installation dinner on Tuesday, January 14th. Hear about the Chamber's accomplishments of 2019, win a raffle prize, enjoy great company and food. R.S.V.P by Tuesday, January 7th.

R.S.V.P. Here

We are looking for raffle prizes for this wonderful event. Please email Cathy at execdir@gladstoneparkchamber.com or call 773-756-6206 if you would like to donate a raffle prize.

Membership Dues

It is time to renew your membership with the Gladstone Park Chamber of Commerce. If you have not already done so please send in your dues to:

Gladstone Park Chamber of Commerce

6348 N. Milwaukee Ave. PMB 318

Chicago, IL 60646

This is also a great time to join the chamber if you are not already a member. Come to our general meeting on Friday, January 3rd to hear what the chamber is all about. We meet at Liberty Bank 6210 N. Milwaukee Ave. at 8am.