HONG KONG, (UPI) -- Leaders of Hong Kong's student protest movement have decided to remain in street encampments, setting up the potential for conflict with police attempting to clear protest sites.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 17, 2014 3:05 p.m.
A person qualified by education, training or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity, and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work primarily for a lawyer, is typically defined as a paralegal. It is a worthy profession that perhaps many will aspire to, if given the chance.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 17, 2014 12:41 p.m.
According to a Chicago State University (CSU) spokesman, the current economic climate and limited funds available from the state of Illinois, has led the CSU Board of Trustees to the restructuring of the CSU Foundation, a non-profit entity governed by its own set of board of directors, that is responsible for raising funds for the University's advancement.
While site location tops local conversations regarding the University of Chicago’s (U of C) Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum proposal, submitted to the Barack Obama Foundation by last Thursday’s submission deadline, collaboration is the buzz word from U of C’s Library team.
Rev. Larry Bullock, President and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Minority Contractors Association (USMCA), recently accepted the Minority Contractors Association Annual Millennium Builders Award from the Metropolitan Water
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 17, 2014 12:27 p.m.
Urban Partnership Bank’s (UPB) board of directors is now a 12-member team with the addition of recently elected, Michael W. Lewis, a respected civic and financial services leader.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 17, 2014 12:20 p.m.
Cook County Board President, Toni Preckwinkle, is seeking to end automatic transfer of juveniles to Adult Court, a system she says disproportionately impacts African American and Hispanic youth charged with certain felony offenses.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States brutalized scores of terror suspects with interrogation tactics that turned secret CIA prisons into chambers of suffering and did nothing to make America safer after the 9/11 attacks, Senate investigators concluded Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Garner was overweight and in poor health. He was a nuisance to shop owners who complained about him selling untaxed cigarettes on the street. When police came to arrest him, he resisted. And if he could repeatedly say, "I can't breathe," it means he could breathe.
By: Lee Edwards - December 5, 2014 1:06 p.m.
The Chicago Citizen Newspaper recently spoke with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Richard Doss, about the service he provides U.S. military veterans facing post-traumatic stress and sexual assault issues, at the Chicago Heights Veteran Center (CHVC), 1010 Dixie Highway, Chicago Heights, Ill.
From the violent lyrics of rap music to the crude comments of teenagers in video-game chat rooms, the Supreme Court struggled Monday over where to draw the line between free speech and illegal threats in the digital age.
For many, travel is as essential to holiday festivities as the jolly old elf himself. Heeding the advice of seasoned travel pros can help take the headache and hassle out of your holiday travel this year.
The hustle and bustle of the holiday season is an exciting time. But from the crowded malls to the big online markdowns, a silent threat lurks – one with the ability to wipe out your good financial standing and make it a not-so-jolly holiday for you and your family.
Solange Knowles shared several photos from her Brazilian honeymoon on Instagram over the weekend.
NEW YORK, (UPI) -- Dwayne Wade was one of the key players during the Miami Heat game against the New York Knicks on Sunday, but his wife Gabrielle Union had a few pointers about his performance.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 5, 2014 11:15 a.m.
Funding put together by various sources will allow sewer repair other work in the Graymoor Subdivision in Olympia Fields.
By: Lee Edwards - December 5, 2014 11:05 a.m.
The American Heart Association (AHA) and Crisp! Mobile Grocery (CMG), an affordable mobile grocer initiative sponsored by Catholic Charities partnered on an effort to tackle the food desert crisis on Chicago’s west side with a kick-off event at Loretto Hospital, 645 S. Central Ave., on Nov. 21 where community members received an informative presentation about the impact of unhealthy eating habits and how to utilize Crisp! Event goers were also treated with a free nutrition and food demonstration by Chef Judson Todd Allen, personal chef to Steve Harvey.
NEW YORK (AP) — From the White House to the streets of some of America's biggest cities, the New York chokehold case converged with the Ferguson shooting and investigations out of South Carolina and Cleveland to stir a national conversation Thursday about racial justice and police use of force.
By: Lee Edwards - December 4, 2014 4:57 p.m.
Community activist, Glenda Franklin, and David Moore, assistant to Cook County Board of Review, Commissioner, Larry Rogers Jr., announced their candidacy to fill the vacancy left by Ald. Latasha Thomas (17th Ward) who will not seek re-election after serving four terms and nearly 15 years following her July 2000 appointment by former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 4, 2014 4:52 p.m.
World Renowned artist, Theaster Gates’ unique approach to neighborhood revitalization is taking off in the Hyde Park/Grand Crossing neighborhood with the grand opening last of week of the Dorchester Art + Housing Collaborative, an art-centered mixed-income community that provides affordable housing opportunities in the Grand Crossing neighborhood.
