By: Deborah Bayliss - December 24, 2014 4:26 p.m.
Saturday’s cold weather and snow flurries provided the perfect setting for Prologue, Inc.’s annual Winter Wonderland event.
Founded in 1973, Prologue, a nonprofit organization serving Chicago communities for 40 years, provides community services, educational and job-training programs for young people, ages 17 to 24, who want to earn a diploma, but find traditional learning environments challenging.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 24, 2014 3:59 p.m.
Chicago Mayoral candidate, millionaire businessman, Dr. Willie Wilson and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel are creating quite an election campaign ruckus, over the validity of nominating petitions Wilson submitted to the Chicago Board of Election.
By: Lee Edwards - December 24, 2014 3:51 p.m.
Last week, the Chatham Business Association (CBA) in partnership with Special Service Area (SSA) #51 held a customer appreciation Winterfest event, at the CBA office, 800 E. 78th St., to thank customers who supported local businesses in the Chatham community during CBA's Black Friday Plus initiative which ran from Nov. 28 to Dec. 18.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 24, 2014 3:47 p.m.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, on Saturday, attended the funeral of Demario Bailey, the twin teenager who was killed under a viaduct in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood last week, while coming to the aid of his twin brother who was being robbed of his coat.
Ironically, now comes news that the Mayor's own teenaged son, was the victim of a robbery last Friday, which left him bruised and battered.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The detective work blaming North Korea for the Sony hacker break-in appears so far to be largely circumstantial, The Associated Press has learned. The dramatic conclusion of a Korean role is based on subtle clues in the hacking tools left behind and the involvement of at least one computer in Bolivia previously traced to other attacks blamed on the North Koreans.
By: Deborah Bayliss - December 17, 2014 3:12 p.m.
Proposals to host and build the Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum have been submitted to the Barack Obama Foundation by the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and the University of Chicago (U of C) who met the Dec. 11 deadline for final proposal submission. Universities in New York and Honolulu are also competing for the right to build the presidential library that promises an economic boon for the area that lands the deal.
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.
