I was working on updating our calendars of neighborhood events and noticed something: We've now published more than 25,000 event listings for Chicago's McKinley Park neighborhood!

A version of the McKinley Park News has been around since 2012, starting out on the mckinleypark.org website with event listings. We've continued to add to this, especially as we switched over to mckinleypark.news in 2016 and started our focus as a neighborhood news publication.

Our calendars stretch all the way back and serve as a very interesting historical record for the neighborhood, as we've pretty much tried to list everything we can find taking place in McKinley Park, and I'm confident we've listed nearly all events, from big showcases to small club meetings.