JEFFERY MANOR — It was barely past noon Monday and Skyway Lanes owner Brunetta Hill-Corley was already busy passing out bowling shoes, answering the phone and hustling between lanes to keep a youth group and a seniors league rolling along.
Foot traffic at Skyway Lanes, 9915 S. Torrence Ave., has been almost nonstop since Hill-Corley declared the 36-lane bowling alley — a South Side gathering space since the 1950s — was at risk of closing.
Hill-Corley told Block Club last month that the family business had lost many of its bowling leagues after the pandemic, while the property tax assessment more than doubled last year at the historical 35,000-square-foot alley, which is in need of costly repairs…