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Commerce Signals Expands Executive Team
“Marketing measurement using aggregate consumer payments data is not new, but it has been slow and complex. The delay in reporting meant most campaigns were already complete, limiting the value of the data. “
Ruins of Pilgrim Baptist Church Will Become National Museum of Gospel Music
“The light bulb came on when I was in Pilgrim and walking through the ashes over there,” said Jackson. “There is a lot of synergy, Chicago is the birth place of Gospel Music, Thomas A Dorsey is the father of gospel music, Pilgrim Baptist Church has done a great job creating this genre of Gospel Music and we do the Stellar Gospel Music Awards, and I was chairman of the DuSable Museum for some 11 years so I know a little bit about the museum industry and that was enough to get us started.”
New Market Rate Housing Construction Begins Leasing in Woodlawn
“We are trying to simultaneously do two things. We are trying to create and preserve as much of the affordable housing that exists in Woodlawn as possible, while at the same time trying to help develop a market for market rate housing,” said William Eager, Vice President of the Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc. (POAH) for the Chicago Area.
Community Meeting Held to Address Concerns About Bronzeville Business
“The level of respect and the bar that you set for your community has to show that you respect the community and that you understand you are part of the community and being part of the community,” said King. “You need to accept responsibility for the type of business you run and for the type of people that you attract.”
MASK Lights up Englewood Neighborhood
“We do this because it’s our neighborhood and we see the people on the block as an extension of our family,” MASK Organizer Tamar Manasseh said. “It’s not a job that we do when we sit out there but this is us taking care of our families.”
100BMC Holiday Toy Drive Uplifts Women, Children
100BMC Board President Carl Tutt said the 16th Annual Toy Drive & Holiday Party was meant to make Christmas a joyous time for individuals because in a lot of cases, it’s not for some families.
Clergy Members Stand behind Preckwinkle in Re-election Campaign
“We inherited a very difficult situation and in the last seven years we have closed budget gaps of about 2 billion. We’ve reduced our workforce by about fifteen percent and we’ve reduced our debt by about eleven percent,” said Preckwinkle.
Boutique Hotel to Open Summer 2018 in Hyde Park
The new hotel will open before Obama’s Presidential Library does, but Beach believes when it does open, it will attract many more visitors to the area who will be interested in staying at SOPHY.
Poe Elementary Receives 2017 National Blue Ribbon School Award
Exemplary achievement gap closing schools are among their state's highest performing schools in closing achievement gaps between a school's subgroups and all students over the past five years.
Long Time Lansing Resident Elected to South Suburban College Board of Trustees
“I’ll start each day with a commitment to helping the college succeed in it’s mission to provide the best education possible for every student and while doing, so I’ll keep a close eye on the tax payer dollars,” said Payne.
Chris Kennedy Combats Unhealthy Meals with Top Box Foods
Brian Foster, Director of Community Outreach and Marketing at Top Box Foods, said five years ago Illinois Democratic Candidate for Governor Chris Kennedy and his wife, Sheila Kennedy, felt that there was a bigger need in urban communities and decided to create Top Box Foods.
Chatham Initiative Hosts Youth Photo Contest
“We wanted to see how the youth saw our community and use the pictures in various media outlets to promote how the community looks through our youth’s lenses,” she said.
Residents Affected By Severe Storms and Flooding
“The SBA is strongly committed to providing the people of Illinois with the most effective and customer-focused response possible to assist businesses of all sizes, homeowners and renters with federal disaster loans,” said Administrator McMahon. “Getting our businesses and communities up and running after a disaster is our highest priority at SBA.”
Officials, Community Activists Fight Over Englewood School Closings
Illinois State Representative Mary Flowers said students should receive everything that the constitution calls for in regards to local communities and children. Flowers explained that when she was first elected 34 years ago, she introduced the bill, Transportation Reimbursement for parents, which prevents students from having to walk in danger zones.
