Pencil This In: St. Sylvestre Brewer Meet and Greet; 46th Ward Participatory Budget Meeting

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Oct 15, 2012 5:30PM

Beer

SmallBar Division is hosting Serge Ricour from France's Brasserie De St. Sylvestre in his first visit to Chicago tonight from 8:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. To celebrate the occasion, SmallBar will have bottles of St. Sylvestre's famous Gavroche Red Ale in bottles and 3Monts Golden Ale on draft. (2049 W. Division St.)

Participatory Budgeting

Ald. James Cappleman (46th) is one of four aldermen who have committed to the Participatory Budgeting Chicago initiative, which is aimed at giving Chicago residents a say into what infrastructure improvements and projects are needed in the wards where they live. Each ward receives nearly $1 million in discretionary funds for infrastructure projects and Cappleman is holding the second of five scheduled public meetings 7-9 p.m. Oct. 17 at Thorek Hospital (850 W. Irving Park Rd.). In a letter to his constituents last week Cappleman wrote the majority of these funds go to alley and street repaving, and extra street lighting. Noww's the time for 46th Ward residents to voice where some of that money is spent.

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