Dolton Hosts Second Annual Christmas Party and Toy Giveaway
“We realize there is a need and anytime there is a need, we try to fill it,” said A.M. Triche, a representative from the Mayor’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs. “We did it last year and it was a wonderful event.
Founder Says Iris Botanicals Restores Natural Hair
“My business just happened to me,” Patterson said. “I didn’t wake up and say ‘oh, I want a product line, but I woke up and said I want my hair back.’”
State Attorney Kim Foxx Speaks at CBA Meeting
“Chicago makes up half of Cook County and the African American and Latino population in the County sums up to 50 percent,” she said. “The County jail [located at] 2700 S. California Ave, is 86 percent African American or Latino and the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center is about 93 percent African American or Latino.”
Community Meeting Held to Address Concerns About Bronzeville Business
“The level of respect and the bar that you set for your community has to show that you respect the community and that you understand you are part of the community and being part of the community,” said King. “You need to accept responsibility for the type of business you run and for the type of people that you attract.”
MASK Lights up Englewood Neighborhood
“We do this because it’s our neighborhood and we see the people on the block as an extension of our family,” MASK Organizer Tamar Manasseh said. “It’s not a job that we do when we sit out there but this is us taking care of our families.”
100BMC Holiday Toy Drive Uplifts Women, Children
100BMC Board President Carl Tutt said the 16th Annual Toy Drive & Holiday Party was meant to make Christmas a joyous time for individuals because in a lot of cases, it’s not for some families.
St. Bernard Hospital Donates To Englewood Families
Families and seniors in need met with the St. Bernard Hospital’s 46 Department staff members who adopted them. All families received holiday gifts, according to a St. Bernard Hospital press release. Families were pre-selected based on economic need, which many of them receive medical care at St. Bernard and have been identified by hospital social workers or nurses.
Ujima Village Shelter Suffers Fire, Organizations Donate Resources
Unity Parenting & Counseling opened the Ujima Village Shelter as an overnight homeless center for high school and college teens on Aug. 19, 2013, but the center suffered a fire this year in the south wing of their building and now local organizations are helping the shelter recover with donations.
Commerce Signals Expands Executive Team
“Marketing measurement using aggregate consumer payments data is not new, but it has been slow and complex. The delay in reporting meant most campaigns were already complete, limiting the value of the data. “
FashionMia Introduces New Line of Dresses
For the last several months FashionMia has had its designers scouting fashion events from around the world to gain understanding of what is hot for winter 2017. The company has worked with its manufacturing partners to bring these dress fashions to the public while also leveraging their ordering power to keep prices low. The result is the new collection of dresses for women.
CELEBRATE KWANZAA AT THE DUSABLE MUSEUM
Each day the program will begin with the Drum Call at 12:00 NOON, and open with the Kwanzaa Ritual, and an explanation of the Principle for the day. The goal of the collaboration is to increase public participation in practice and understanding of the Kwanzaa celebration, and to bring families together to honor our Ancestors, become grounded in our history and to celebrate our collective achievement as an Afrikan People.
Ruins of Pilgrim Baptist Church Will Become National Museum of Gospel Music
“The light bulb came on when I was in Pilgrim and walking through the ashes over there,” said Jackson. “There is a lot of synergy, Chicago is the birth place of Gospel Music, Thomas A Dorsey is the father of gospel music, Pilgrim Baptist Church has done a great job creating this genre of Gospel Music and we do the Stellar Gospel Music Awards, and I was chairman of the DuSable Museum for some 11 years so I know a little bit about the museum industry and that was enough to get us started.”
New Market Rate Housing Construction Begins Leasing in Woodlawn
“We are trying to simultaneously do two things. We are trying to create and preserve as much of the affordable housing that exists in Woodlawn as possible, while at the same time trying to help develop a market for market rate housing,” said William Eager, Vice President of the Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc. (POAH) for the Chicago Area.
Boutique Hotel to Open Summer 2018 in Hyde Park
The new hotel will open before Obama’s Presidential Library does, but Beach believes when it does open, it will attract many more visitors to the area who will be interested in staying at SOPHY.
Residents Affected By Severe Storms and Flooding
“The SBA is strongly committed to providing the people of Illinois with the most effective and customer-focused response possible to assist businesses of all sizes, homeowners and renters with federal disaster loans,” said Administrator McMahon. “Getting our businesses and communities up and running after a disaster is our highest priority at SBA.”
Clergy Members Stand behind Preckwinkle in Re-election Campaign
“We inherited a very difficult situation and in the last seven years we have closed budget gaps of about 2 billion. We’ve reduced our workforce by about fifteen percent and we’ve reduced our debt by about eleven percent,” said Preckwinkle.
Chris Kennedy Combats Unhealthy Meals with Top Box Foods
Brian Foster, Director of Community Outreach and Marketing at Top Box Foods, said five years ago Illinois Democratic Candidate for Governor Chris Kennedy and his wife, Sheila Kennedy, felt that there was a bigger need in urban communities and decided to create Top Box Foods.
Poe Elementary Receives 2017 National Blue Ribbon School Award
Exemplary achievement gap closing schools are among their state's highest performing schools in closing achievement gaps between a school's subgroups and all students over the past five years.
Long Time Lansing Resident Elected to South Suburban College Board of Trustees
“I’ll start each day with a commitment to helping the college succeed in it’s mission to provide the best education possible for every student and while doing, so I’ll keep a close eye on the tax payer dollars,” said Payne.
