Explore Albany Park with Mobile Neighborhood Tours produced by LISC/Chicago and the North River Commission. Tour the neighborhood at your own pace while discovering Albany Park’s hidden gems. This free tour is available for your iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Palm or Windows Phone. Start by entering this address in your phone's browser: tours.lisc-chicago.org

The North River Commission along with Roosevelt High School students lent a hand on Monday July 19th to help the 33rd Ward and Alderman Richard Mell with their Summer Cleaning Bash!

left: NRC Executive Director Rodney Walker and Alderman Richard Mell (33rd) pose post clean up with Roosevelt High School students. Right: Students weed and pick up trash on Montrose Ave.

The North River Commission will host Free Concerts in Ronan Park (3000 W. Argyle St.) at Lawrence and the Chicago River on Thursdays, June 24th, July 8th & 22nd, and August 5th from 6:30pm-8:30pm featuring local groups playing a diverse selection of music from Latin Jazz to Americana and Bistro Swing to Reggae and more! Close to public transit, bicycle and pedestrian friendly or free parking available. For a full schedule and details click here!

On a beautiful spring night, over 150 participants and 18 local restaurants took part in the successful “Bon APpétit” Multicultural Restaurant Crawl in Albany Park on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 co-hosted by the North River Commission (NRC) and the Albany Park Chamber of Commerce (the Chamber). “Crawlers” experienced tasty samplings of food, drinks and entertainment at venues up and down Lawrence, Kedzie, Kimball, Foster, Elston and Francisco Avenues in the downtown Albany Park and Mayfair communities.

Left: guest are welcomed by North River Commission Staff memebers and food provided by Pollo Compareo (4830 N.  Pulaske Rd.) at check-in. Right: Attendess enjoy dining alfresco at Merle's Coffee Shoppe (4642 N. Francisco Ave.)

Restaurants provided excellent food and hospitality and were well received by participants. One “Crawler” said, “The hospitality at Marie’s Pizza was the best, I felt like I came to a party.”  Another noted, “The Ssyal Ginseng House had delicious Korean food; Mrs. Cho, the owner, went above and beyond.” Participants overwhelmingly said they would be back to enjoy Albany Park this summer and would attend the next Crawl NRC and the Chamber hosts.

North River Commission (NRC) and the Albany Park Chamber of Commerce with the help of the 60-person North Park University Football Team worked to move over 2,600 pounds of top soil, 400 pounds of mulch and planted 471 plants in 36 planters on Foster Avenue, Kimball Avenue, Lawrence Avenue and Montrose Avenue on Saturday, April 24, 2010. This project has given our community an enormous boost by beautifying dozens of planters that were neglected and unused. We look forward to partnering with NPU on similar projects in the future.