By: Lee Edwards - January 8, 2014 1:41 p.m.
Chatham Business Association’s (CBA) new Get Connected IT Ambassadors program develops young adults' computer literacy skills so that they can in turn, assist small local businesses with their computer based needs.
Last year, Illinois' 97th General Assembly, passed over 200 new laws that went into effect Jan 1, 2014. Below, the Chicago Citizen Newspaper has highlighted new laws we feel are particularly noteworthy (To download a full list of all new Illinois laws, go to http://www.illinoissenatedemocrats.com/images/PDFS/2013/BillseffectiveJan1-2014.pdf.):
Target says customers' encrypted PIN data was removed during the massive data breach that occurred earlier this month.
Make being healthy your resolution and find ways to get and stay healthy this year. Many popular New Year's resolutions focus on how to improve your health. That is good news, considering that being healthy provides us protection against disease and injury, as well as strength and energy to help us have a good quality of life.
Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union are engaged.
The Miami Heat star proposed to his longtime girlfriend Saturday and the actress accepted. They announced the news through social media, around the same time as the two-time defending NBA champions were gathering for a team Christmas party.
Trustees at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) recently approved a $5 million grant to support a new manufacturing initiative that hopefully will advance economic development throughout Illinois.
Gov. Pat Quinn reportedly promised $5 million in state support for the Illinois Manufacturing Lab, to be matched by other sources.
By: Lee Edwards - December 31, 2013 12:11 p.m.
The Regional Transit Authority (RTA) recently partnered with the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) to hold six public meetings for their customers across Chicagoland. The meetings were geared towards informing seniors and physically disabled customers about Ventra, the new payment system for the CTA and Pace that allows customers to pay for train and bus rides with the same payment methods they use for everyday purchases.
By: Lee Edwards - December 31, 2013 11:44 a.m.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has launched Mentoring the Next Generation, a new district-wide school volunteer initiative for CPS staff to provide students in kindergarten and 8th grade with extra instruction and preparation for their next steps in education.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 31, 2013 11:36 a.m.
A long planned and much needed recreation center project may finally come to fruition in 2015, providing the Bronzeville area with a place for youth to spend time and engage in positive endeavors.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Park District Superintendent Michael Kelly, 4th Ward Ald., Will Burns and 3rd Ward Ald. Pat Dowell and Quad Communities Development Corporation announced last week plans for a new arts and recreation center at Ellis Park, 535 E. 35th Street.
I really wasn’t planning to go back.
I was cooking when my friend Emma Bell called me and tentatively shared the news-Nelson Mandela had died.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 31, 2013 11:11 a.m.
As the health care world adjusts to changes in laws due to the passage of the new Affordable Care Act, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are growing in number.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 31, 2013 10:59 a.m.
Shortly after announcing a Grocery Store Task Force in response to the 72 Dominick’s store closures throughout Chicago as of Dec. 28, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced last week, the Task Force team's members.
(GIN) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an activist in the anti-apartheid struggle, said he was dismayed at the “blatant exclusion” of Afrikaners from last week's memorial services for Nelson Mandela.
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon.com is working on a way to get packages to customers in 30 minutes or less — via self-guided drone.
"Saturday Night Live" plans to add one or two black female performers to its cast as soon as January.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 26, 2013 12:31 p.m.
According to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), public schools nationwide face a shortage of special education teachers, disproportionately affecting minority students particularly in metropolitan areas like Chicago because of the large African American and Latino student body that exist there, and because minority students are placed in special education programs at a disproportionally higher rate than students of other ethnicities.
If you’re contemplating new career goals in the New Year, you might want to consider attending South Suburban College's (SSC) Open House for its Paralegal Program.
More than a 100 people who are serving Cook County Sheriff’s Vocational Rehabilitation Impact Center (VRIC) sentences have been working on manual labor projects to help out local communities, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced last week.
By: Lee Edwards - December 26, 2013 12:06 p.m.
The Chicago Southside chapter of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) presented a screening of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom to raise money for its’ ACT-SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) program.
Get Covered Illinois (GCI) is advising people who have applied for coverage on the federal web site, healthcare.gov, and who believe they may have been incorrectly referred to the state for Medicaid coverage, to restart the process by using the screening tool at Getcoveredillinois.gov.
