Community Focus
Girls Like Me Celebrates Chicago Day of the Girl
As the founder of an organization centered around girls, LaKeisha Gray Sewell is always looking for ways to uplift girls and bring awareness to issues that affect them. When she heard about the United Nations’ International Day of the Girl Child, she saw an opportunity to bring awareness to the issues that girls in Chicago face and decided to host Chicago Day of the Girl each year around October 11th.
Destiny Outreach Celebrates Apprentices With A Showcase
Destiny Outreach recently celebrated the graduation of its first cohort of the DO! Entertainment Industry Apprenticeship Program (EIAP).
Chicago State University’s Dual Enrollment Students Receive Computers
On Wednesday, high school students from nine high schools, who are in the Dual Enrollment program at Chicago State University, received computers. The distribution event is part of AT&T Illinois; “Back to School” Connectivity Month. Students from Bowen, Kenwood Academy, Harlan, Butler College Prep, Perspectives IIT, Perspectives Leadership Academy and Perspectives Joslin, as well as Thornton Fractional North and Thornton Fractional South, also received computers from Compudopt.
First Ladies Health Initiative Hosts Event Focused On Maternal Health
The First Ladies Health Initiative will host its Maternal Health Panel and Resource Fair on Saturday, Sept. 20th, at Imani Village, located at 901 E. 95th St.
Esperanza Community Services Continues To Help Children And Families
Esperanza Community Services was founded in 1969 to provide children with developmental disabilities access to quality education. With limited options at the time, a group of parents understood the importance of that kind of access to help their children thrive. They decided to create spaces rooted in inclusion, dignity and possibility. More than 50 years later, Esperanza Community Services continues to empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, in order to help them lead fulfilling, independent lives, with a strong focus on Spanish speaking communities.
The Chicago Bulls Engage Community At Bulls Fest
On a warm Saturday morning, the sounds of basketballs bouncing could be heard at the United Center, not inside where the Chicago Bulls usually play, but outside where courts were set up for basketball tournaments as part of Bulls Fest. The two-day event took place on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 23rd and 24th, and featured 3-on-3 tournaments for both men and women, ages 8 years old and up.
Local Woman Launches Support Group For People With Primary Biliary Cholangitis
L. Marie Asad started to feel what she describes as chronic fatigue, having a hard time getting up in the morning, felt exhausted at work and was tired when she got home. When she went to see her physician, he suggested that she change her diet and eat better. She noticed her fatigue was getting progressively worse, so she went to the physician who ran labs and found elevated alkaline phosphatase. She found a liver specialist and was diagnosed with Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) and was prescribed medication.
GOVERNOR PRITZKER LAUD THE EFFORTS OF BMU FOUNDER, PASTOR JOHN HARRELL, FOR HIS UNDYING COMMITMENT TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Pastor John Harrell, Founder and President of the Black Men United Organization- will be joined by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Illinois Speaker of the House Chris Welch, Illinois Senate Majority Kimberly Lightford, Maywood Mayor Nathaniel Booker, Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson, Black Men United, West Suburban residents, and clergymen as they collectively engaged in a ribbon cutting ceremony of an all new 24 unit housing development named 1010 LLC.
Tie Tuesday Foundation Makes Its Mark On Young People Through Mentorship
Daniel Jackson saw a great need for mentorship. As a Chicago Public School teacher, Jackson saw an opportunity to create something to support students outside of school. During his formative years, he had a mentor, and he wanted to be able to support young people in the same way he was supported when he was younger. He founded the Tie Tuesday Foundation in 2023.
Leave No Veteran Behind Continues To Support Veterans
A locally based organization with a national reach aims to support veterans through transitional jobs and scholarships that help pay student loans. Leave No Veteran Behind was founded in 2008 as a way to invest in veterans with the goal to build better communities. Leave No Veteran Behind co-founder Eli Williamson returned from deployment and found out he had student loan payments to make, as did his co-founder.
TRIO Upward Bound Students Named Cubs Scholars
Three Upward Bound students have received Cubs scholarships. Wyneisha Boyd, a junior at Gwendolyn Brooks High School; Kanyla Stephens, a junior at Gwendolyn Brooks High School; and Brielle Sterling, a junior at Kenwood Academy High School, were recognized recently during a breakfast at Wrigley Field.
Donations Helps To Renovate Baseball Fields
Four baseball fields at Brainerd Park were restored because of a donation from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. The community celebrated during a recent ribbon cutting at Brainerd Park, which is located at 246 W. 92nd St. The Driehaus Foundation wanted to fund a project to honor and remember Richard H. Driehaus.
Come Celebrate With The Chatham Community At Their 10th Annual Picnic In Brown Park
The 10th Annual Chatham Community Picnic in Sidney Brown Memorial Park will be held on August 16, 2025
Organization Works To Help Communities Create Municipal Grocery Stores
With grocery prices continuing to increase and food assistance programs services being cut, an Illinois organization is looking at the benefits municipal grocery stores could bring to communities in the South Suburbs, as well as throughout the state of Illinois.
