It all started with a chance meeting. The Happy Returns art studio and Alt_Chicago (pronounced “Alt Space Chicago), a nonprofit that seeks to improve communities like Austin through art, both operate out of the basement of an Austin loft studio building at 5339 W. Lake St. One day, around two years ago, Happy Returns co-directors […]
Author Archives: Igor Studenkov
Igor Studenkov is a winner of multiple Illinois Press Association awards for local government and business reporting. He has been contributing to Austin Weekly News since 2015. His work has also appeared in Wednesday Journal and Forest Park Review, as well as Streetsblog Chicago and various community newspapers throughout the Chicagoland region. His favorite West Side library is Austin library, and his favorite West Side business is Out of the Past Records
