By: Lee Edwards - October 3, 2013 10:17 a.m.
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County Dorothy Brown and Cook County Department of Health Chief Operating Officer Dr. Terry Mason both go visit Chicago Vocational Career Academy (CVS) High School where they participated in the 4th Annual Back to School with the History Makers Program. Clerk Brown and Dr. Mason are both former selections as History Makers; Dr. Mason is proud to be an alum of CVS.
By: Lee Edwards - October 2, 2013 4:29 p.m.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Illinois Post 311 has a shiny new sign acknowledging its outstanding year of service (2012-2013) to the Village of Richton Park. Drivers can see the sign while driving eastbound into Richton Park.
By: Deborah Bayliss - October 2, 2013 10:49 a.m.
Chicago Transit Authority’s (CTA) elevated structure at Wabash - Washington will soon be transformed into what’s being called “a gateway for Millennium Park and the Loop.”
By: Deborah Bayliss - October 2, 2013 10:44 a.m.
Cook County Board President, Toni Preckwinkle, announced retired Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) manager, Romayne Brown, as her choice to replace Stanley Rakestraw on the Metra Board of Directors.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services.
By: Deborah Bayliss - October 2, 2013 10:34 a.m.
Former Cook County Commissioner William Beavers' was sentenced last Wednesday by U.S. District Judge James Zagel to six months in prison for failing to declare campaign funds he spent at casinos as taxable income, a sentence, Chicago's acting U.S. attorney Gary Shapiro reportedly criticized as too lenient.
After a tragedy like the Trayvon Martin killing, calls routinely arise for a conversation about race. But Henry Louis Gates thinks the more direct way for structural change is through schools and their curriculum.
Purchasing designer handbags and shoes is a means for women to express their style, boost self-esteem, or even signal status. New University of Minnesota research suggests some women also seek these luxury items to prevent other women from stealing their man.
U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (Dist 2nd) will host a job fair on Friday, October 4, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at South Suburban College, 15800 State St., South Holland.
Engaging & Educating the Community in Preventing Youth of Color with Behavioral Health Challenges from Entering the Legal Justice Systems” was both the topic and the goal of a Dialogue Meeting hosted by Chicago Area Project (CAP) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (HHS/SAMHSA) on September 11 - 12, 2013, at the University of Illinois/Student Center West, 828 S. Wolcott St. in Chicago.
By: Lee Edwards - September 25, 2013 4:24 p.m.
Prairie State College (PSC) has become one of four community colleges in the state of Illinois to participate in the Behavior Change for Energy Efficiency Pilot Program. The program reduces energy usage by monitoring the amount of energy used and changing the behavior of its participants.
By: Lee Edwards - September 25, 2013 4:24 p.m.
At the North Lawndale Magic Johnson Bridgescape location at 3210 W. Roosevelt Rd., former NBA star Earvin “Magic” Johnson joined by several of his notable friends including recording artist Common, and current Bridgescape students announced the formation of his non-profit organization “Friends of Magic” that would work to assist at-risk students and dropouts earn their high school diplomas.
By: Deborah Bayliss - September 25, 2013 4:16 p.m.
Harvard business professor, Steve Rogers, used a line from a song as he described Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood where he grew up and still owns property, saying “you can call it Tobacco Road but it’s still my home,” referring to the areas “bad” reputation label.
Today’s technology makes those pesky tasks of washing, drying and folding your beloved garments easier than ever before. Gain inspiration for a laundry room update with cutting-edge solutions that work hard to get your clothes squeaky clean and may even make the chore fun.
By: Larissa M. Tyler - September 25, 2013 3:53 p.m.
The city of Chicago has good news for unemployed Chicagoans. That’s because Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced yesterday that the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) will provide up to $1.6 million in funding for worker training and direct placement program assistance to help unemployed Chicago residents obtain positions at companies that contract with O’Hare International Airport.
By: Deborah Bayliss - September 25, 2013 3:31 p.m.
Following Sunday’s church service, Shelby Hamilton eagerly perused the various health screening tables set up in the basement of the Sheldon Heights Church of Christ, 11355 S. Halsted, where she is a member, before deciding on the blood pressure check as her first stop.
By: Lee Edwards - September 25, 2013 3:24 p.m.
Presented by the Black McDonald’s Operators Association of Chicagoland and the Northwest Indiana (BMOA), the UniverSoul Circus is in Washington Park at 51st and Cottage Grove Ave. from Wednesday, Sept. 18 through Sunday, Oct. 6 and then will move on to Union Park at 1501 W. Randolph St.
By: Deborah Bayliss - September 25, 2013 3:19 p.m.
Described as a visual call to action, artist James Pate shines a disturbing light on the countless number of individuals who lost their lives to gun violence in African American communities via a moving exhibition titled Kin Killin Kin--on display at the DuSable Museum of African History, 740 East 56th St., through Nov. 2013.
CHICAGO- A federal jury today convicted a former Cook County official of steering four county contracts, each just under $25,000, to four acquaintances and then taking a portion of the contract payments as kickbacks from each of them, totaling $34,700. The defendant, Eugene Mullins, who was director of the Cook County Department of Public Affairs and Communications between March 2008 and November 2010, was found guilty by jurors who began deliberating Monday afternoon after a week-long trial in U.S. District Court.
A secret meeting between a representative of the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and a Ku Klux Klan organizer ended with the Klan organizer paying $50 to join the civil rights organization, participants said.
