By: Lee Edwards - November 20, 2014 4:23 p.m.
Housed at the Experimental Station’s bike shop at 6100 S. Blackstone Ave. in Chicago, Blackstone Bicycle Works Program (BBWP) is a youth education program of the Experimental Station. It's a bike shop dedicated to promoting ecological practices and empowering youth, teaching mechanical skills, job skills, and business literacy to boys and girls from the underserved Woodlawn neighborhood and Chicago's broader south side.
Gym classes that promise a plump posterior are in high demand. A surgery that pumps fat into the buttocks is gaining popularity. And padded panties that give the appearance of a rounder rump are selling out.
Hoping for a Whitney Houston hologram? You'll have to wait.
Pat Houston, the late singer's sister-in-law and head of her estate, says she's had offers to debut a Houston hologram, but she won't sign on just yet.
By: Lee Edwards - November 20, 2014 12:49 p.m.
In an effort to assist businesses owned and operated by minorities business enterprises (MBE), women business enterprises (WBE), and disabled individual business enterprises (DBE), the Chatham Business Association (CBA) and the South Shore Chamber, Inc. (SSCI) joined forces hosting a free MBE,WBE and DBE certification workshop on Nov. 5, at the SSCI’s office, 1750 E. 71st.
By: Lee Edwards - November 20, 2014 12:34 p.m.
City of Chicago’s City Council recently passed a Single-Room Occupancy and Residential Hotel Preservation Ordinance, that preserves affordable-single room occupancy (SRO) buildings and establishes the legal framework to generate revenue to support building owners. The SRO ordinance was sponsored by Alderman Walter Burnett (27th Ward) and Alderman Ameya Pawar (47th Ward) with the support of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and in partnership with grassroots organization, Chicago for All Coalition.
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC has scrapped a Bill Cosby comedy that was under development, the second outlet within a day to put off or abandon a project involving the long-beloved comic as a sexual assault scandal continues to spiral around him.
Jane Byrne became part of Chicago history when she was elected its first female mayor. She became part of city lore because of how she won: beating an incumbent who voters thought had bungled the reaction to a blizzard that paralyzed the streets.
By: Deborah Bayliss - November 13, 2014 12:41 p.m.
High school students looking to show off their musical skills will be happy to learn that Triton College, next month, will hold auditions to participate in the first-ever, Triton College Community Orchestra Concerto Competition (TCCO).
By: Lee Edwards - November 13, 2014 12:32 p.m.
The Village of Hazel Crest’s Veteran Commission continued its long standing tradition of supporting local United States military veterans and service-
By: Deborah Bayliss - November 13, 2014 12:15 p.m.
As you do your Christmas shopping this holiday season, you might want to consider online purchases from the Cook County auction site.
Approximately two years ago, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s administration considered selling surplus equipment and other valuables through auction, as a creative way to generate revenue.
By: Lee Edwards - November 12, 2014 4:34 p.m.
On Nov. 3, the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) announced it has contracted with a private company to develop a 4,000-square-foot fueling station and travel center that will offer alternative fuels and a variety of food options to travelers. The new station will be built on City-owned vacant land near O’Hare International Airport.
The announcement was made at the Airports Going Green Conference, the airport industry's leading sustainability forum hosted annually by the CDA and the American Association of Airport Executives.
Rap music figure Marion “Suge” Knight will post bail and return to California to face a robbery charge following treatment at a Las Vegas hospital for a blood clot in his chest discovered after he fell in jail, his attorneys said last Monday.
By: Lee Edwards - November 12, 2014 4:16 p.m.
The Success Project, an initiative that provides academic preparation, social support and college counseling for Chicago Public School (CPS) middle school students, was announced on Nov. 6 during a press conference at Claremont Academy Elementary School, 2300 W. 64th St. in Chicago.
By: Deborah Bayliss - November 12, 2014 4:04 p.m.
An Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence (IC-CAE) will soon become part of the Chicago State University (CSU) campus thanks to a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA,) which plans, manage, and execute intelligence operations during peacetime, crisis, and war.
By: Deborah Bayliss - November 12, 2014 3:12 p.m.
The Dovetail Project, a Southside non-profit agency that provides parenting and life skills to “high risk,” young African American fathers, is among the first round of agencies selected to receive up to $50,000 in funding and other support from the University of Chicago’s (U of C) Community Programs Accelerator initiative aimed at strengthening organizations near the U of C campus.
