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Anthony E. Simpkins is president and CEO of Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Published on June 30, 2021	India Ehioba, president and CEO of Shore Community Services, says doing the pandemic community members provided necessary essentials to the organization, which is celebrating 70 ... Published on June 30, 2021	Published on June 30, 2021
Published on June 30, 2021	Dr. Philip Gorelick worked on the Brain Guide, a platform that provides resources to people and their caregivers to identify memory problems. The platform was ... Published on June 30, 2021	Bril Barrett is founder of Making a Difference Dancing (M.A.D.D.) Rhythms dance company and tap dance academy. Barrett said he always wanted to expose young ... Published on June 30, 2021
April Welch, Associate Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Director of the Esports and Digital Arts Center for Illinois Institute of Technology, has championed a ... Published on June 30, 2021	Lancôme Trésor, 2021 Hall of Fame Award recipient from The Fragrance Foundation (TFF). Published on June 30, 2021	Tom Joyner’s Fantastic Voyage sets sail On November 6-14, 2021 with headliners Usher and Alicia Keys. It’s a party with a purpose, supporting students from ... Published on June 30, 2021
Daryl Newell, president of Seaway Bank, stands at the podium with NBC 5’s Art Norman, who served as the emcee of the event. Photo by ... Published on June 30, 2021	Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, an artist from Ghana, unveiled his work, Blank Slate Monument, at Saturday’s Juneteenth event at the DuSable Museum of African American History. Photo ... Published on June 23, 2021	Sherina Maye Edwards, President and CEO of INTREN, is helping the company navigating its acquisition by MasTec. Photo provided by Sherina Maye Edwards Published on June 23, 2021
Wyence Handcrafted Leather Design & Apparel partners with Sunshine Enterprises, a program to help entrepreneurs on the South and West sides that was founded in ... Published on June 23, 2021	The report shows how Black women have been left with increasingly less room for educational and professional advancement. Published on June 23, 2021	Baron Waller is the owner of five Chicagoland area Culver’s restaurants. He recently opened a location in Ravenswood and is set to open another in ... Published on June 23, 2021
Ida Nelson’s son, Gus “Jett” Hawkins is the inspiration behind the Jett Hakwins Act, which bans schools from making rules about hairstyles, including those associated ... Published on June 23, 2021	Approaching the issue of access equality, The Doug Williams Center provides advocacy support for the conference and the larger movement for diversity and inclusion in ... Published on June 23, 2021	Fleurs de Prairie Published on June 23, 2021
Businesses serving alcohol can now offer up a free drink to vaccinated patrons under a new law recently signed by Governor JB Pritzker. Published on June 23, 2021	Ed Krembuszewski, manager of energy effi ciency engineering at ComEd, is known as the Energy Doctor. He has tips on how to reduce energy use ... Published on June 23, 2021	Keeta’s Place, which was founded in 2020, services girls ages 12-18. With its virtual format is has been able to include girls from seven different ... Published on June 16, 2021
Karen Yarbrough is the Cook County Clerk. She is the first African-American woman to hold the position. Previously she was the Recorder of Deeds and ... Published on June 16, 2021	Chicago State University’s Pre-Freshman Program in Engineering and Science (PREP) won second place and a $10,000 grant for the 2021 Ford Gives Back Freedom Award ... Published on June 16, 2021	Published on June 16, 2021
The Discover Center in Chatham hosted a soft grand opening to welcome community leaders and stakeholders. Photo provided by Discover Published on June 16, 2021	Published on June 10, 2021	James Lott, One of the national greatest Gospel Music Record Label Executive, Director and Producer Published on June 10, 2021
Published on June 9, 2021	Karli Butler is an inspirational speaker who shares her journey of life after an acid attack. Photos provided by Karli Butler Published on June 9, 2021	Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore wants the Cook County Board to hold off on a vote to rename Columbus Day Indigenous Peoples’ Day until the ... Published on June 9, 2021
Ladies of Virtue prepares its girls, ages 9 to 18, for leadership in three ways: character development, career readiness and civic engagement. Photos provided by ... Published on June 9, 2021	Jasmine Black, president of BrainChild Business Consulting, said business owners should do their research, get a good banking partner, visit the Small Business Administration, get ... Published on June 9, 2021	Keshia Knight Pulliam was recently announced as Mielle’s new Global Education Ambassador. Published on June 9, 2021
Tony Award-winner Ben Vereen Published on June 9, 2021	Published on June 9, 2021	Published on June 9, 2021
A new report from Bentley University’s Center for Women and Business highlights best practices for creating successful allyship programs. Published on June 9, 2021	Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown outlined the city’s summer safety strategy. Photos by Tia Carol Jones Published on June 9, 2021	Published on June 4, 2021
West Suburban Medical Center, located in Oak Park, is looking for the State to provide money to help it remain open so it can provide ... Published on June 2, 2021	Calumet City Mayor speaks during a demonstration opposing the downsizing of Franciscan Health’s St. Margaret Hospital in Hammond, Ind. Photos provided by Sean Howard Published on June 2, 2021	Published on June 2, 2021
David Robertson is the first Black alumni at Northeastern Illinois University to create an endowment scholarship. The Hope Is Foundation Courageous Scholars Scholarship, geared toward ... Published on June 2, 2021	According to the study, 15% of adults 50+ do not have access to any type of internet and 60% say the cost of high-speed internet ... Published on June 2, 2021	Chicago State University’s President Zaldwaynaka Scott, Esq., convened 45 stakeholders to come up with the Equity Working Group for Black Student Access and Success in ... Published on June 2, 2021
Restaurant Strong Fund and Grubhub program gives $2 million to help restaurants reopen Published on June 2, 2021	Iris Nichole Patterson created a haircare line, Iris Botanicals, LLC, after losing her hair from having a glue-in weave removed. Photos provided by Iris Patterson Published on June 2, 2021	Eliza Christoph geo prints on cotton poplin. Published on June 2, 2021
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Published on June 2, 2021	The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation (BLHF) – a nonprofit organization founded by award-winning actress Taraji P. Henson –launched a public awareness campaign recently to address ... Published on June 2, 2021

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