By: Lee Edwards - June 12, 2014 4:15 p.m.
The Chatham Business Association (CBA) hosted guest speaker, Lisa Thompson-Bennett, Community Relations Liaison, Housing Government & Community Relations for the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, at its monthly meeting yesterday held at the QBG Building, 806 E. 78th St. Thompson-Bennett discussed the importance of businesses securing against digital identity theft.
By: Lee Edwards - June 12, 2014 3:54 p.m.
The Village of South Holland held a ribbon cutting ceremony to welcome Xtreme Kustoms Wheels & Electronics, 518 East 162nd St, South Holland, IL, to the community last week. Xtreme Kustoms Wheels & Electronics is an African American family-owned and operated business that provides custom vehicle wheels and tire, alarm integration, remote starting systems, stereo installation, among other automotive customizing services.
By: Lee Edwards - June 12, 2014 3:26 p.m.
In recognition of 17 mothers and 27 students that staged a sit-in at Burnside Scholastic Academy (BSA), 650 E. 91st Pl., on January 2, 1962, a 300 sq. ft. tile mural was unveiled at the school last week. The Burnside sit-in was one of the first acts that led to end segregation within the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system and helped ignite
Chicago's Civil Rights movement.
It almost seems unfair. As women, we have to work extra hard to lose weight, but it seems like men can simply wish to lose weight and do it with no problem.
By: Lee Edwards - June 11, 2014 4:40 p.m.
Real Men Cook, Charities, Inc. and Real Men Cook, Inc. (RMC) partnered with the Safe Dining Association (SDA) last week to host a Summer Festival Food Service Sanitation seminar at the Give Me Some Sugah bakery, 2234 E. 71st St., that educated RMC Father’s Day cookout event participants on how to provide safe food samples to the public. The RMC cookout event was launched in 1990, is presented annually on Father's Day and is a food tasting family celebration featuring men volunteering to cook for and serve the community. This year, RMC is celebrating its 25th consecutive Father’s Day cookout event in Chicago.
By: Deborah Bayliss - June 11, 2014 4:02 p.m.
For many African American households, Johnson Publication’s JET magazine was very much a cultural component commonly found on coffee and dinner tables nationwide, however; as technology has made way for the new digital age, JET magazine, initially billed as “The Weekly Negro News Magazine,” released its final print issue on Monday as the 63-year-old publication transitions from print to a digital only platform as a way to provide readers quicker and easier access to its news and information coverage.
Gay and lesbian couples across Illinois can now legally wed as the state becomes the latest in the nation to allow same-sex marriage.
U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned on Friday after a political firestorm over widespread delays in veterans' medical care, leaving President Barack Obama with a freer hand to address systemic problems bedeviling the agency.
By: Lee Edwards - June 4, 2014 4:03 p.m.
Last week, Chicago aldermen were joined at City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., by Raise Chicago, a grassroots coalition working to ensure that major corporations who make over $50 million in profits pay a living wage of $15/hr., to announce the introduction of a $15 an hour minimum wage ordinance, sponsored by Alderman Roderick Sawyer (6th), Alderman John Arena (45th), and Alderman Joe Moreno (1st).
By: Lee Edwards - June 4, 2014 3:39 p.m.
Last week, faculty at Walter Q. Gresham Elementary School, 8524 S. Green St., celebrated the opening of its new library by establishing a “Literacy Day program,” designed to allow students more time in the library and to encourage them to read more.
By: Deborah Bayliss - June 4, 2014 3:27 p.m.
Now might be a good time to start that business venture you’ve been thinking about especially since a study commissioned by the University of Chicago ( U of C) and carried out by an economics research firm concluded that a Barack Obama Presidential Library would provide a “significant economic boon to Chicago’s South side and the city.”
By: Deborah Bayliss - June 4, 2014 3:19 p.m.
Apostle Bishop Bridget C. Outlaw, Senior Pastor of New Global Destiny World Vision Ministries, recently received the prestigious, “2014 President’s Lifetime Achievement for Hunger Relief Advocate Award,” a national honor from the White House, offered in recognition of
sustained service.
Minister Frankie Davis has resided in the West Humboldt Park/West Garfield area since 1980 and was one of the many residents who gathered at Orr Community Academy High School Friday night on Chicago’s west side as part of the “Summer of Faith and Action,” kick-off movement, a faith-based and community effort to reclaim the city's streets from drugs and gun violence.
By: Lee Edwards - May 29, 2014 11:29 a.m.
Chicago’s Department of Procurement Services (DPS) recently unveiled its Vendor Compliance Resource Guide which explains contract compliance issues for vendors while reinforcing the City’s priorities of transparency and diversity contracting. The unveiling took place last week at the 2014 Vendor Fair held at the UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Rd. Hosted by DPS in partnership with Cook County, the fair was an outreach event attended by more than 1,000 small and large businesses owners.
By: Lee Edwards - May 29, 2014 10:50 a.m.
The 30th Annual Matteson Family Days festival, an event staple for the Village of Matteson, is taking place on Friday, June 27 through Saturday, June 28, at the Matteson Village Hall, 4900 Village Commons. This year’s festival is headlined by multi-platinum selling R&B group, En Vogue, on Friday night and Grammy award winning artist, Peabo Bryson, on Saturday night.
