In January 2024, our Facebook page was hacked. Whoever took it over stripped our admin access, and just like that, we lost the community we had spent years building there — about 20,000 followers. We asked Meta for help again and again. It never came.
So in March 2024, we started over from zero with a brand-new page and a simple ask: find us again. Many of you did — and the climb back has been steady ever since.
The new page has passed 2,500 followers, and in the last 28 days its posts were viewed more than 1 million times — up 92% from the period before — as the development news, holiday guides and Friday-night throwbacks found their audience again. But we also know thousands of neighbors who followed the old page still haven’t found the new one; old links and search results can still point to the page we lost. If we’ve seemed quiet on Facebook since 2024, that’s why.
The one official page is Southport Corridor News and Events on Facebook, at facebook.com/southportcorridorlakeview. You’ll find the same corridor news we publish here, plus daily photos, polls and questions, and first word on seasonal guides like ZooLights, Small Business Saturday and Wrigleyville Christmas.
If you followed us before the hack, come follow the real page — and if you know a neighbor who wondered where we went, send them this post. Thank you for helping us climb back.