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Advocates decry the “sad state” of Chicago’s affordable housing
Submitted on Fri, 09/28/2007 – 12:00. Chicago is not doing enough to address the “sad state of family housing,” a leading affordable housing advocate told several Chicago City Council members last week. “How are we servicing families?” asked Kevin Jackson, executive director of the Chicago Rehab Network, after the Housing and Real Estate Committee received […]
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Submitted on Thu, 09/27/2007 – 14:28. Story by Michael Pasternak Today for the first time in history, the Chicago City Council meeting can be seen live online. The council’s Rules and Ethics Committee Wednesday passed a resolution allowing meetings of the full 50-member body to be broadcast, from the Finance Committee’s Web site. “It’s about […]
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Submitted on Wed, 09/26/2007 – 12:15. Story by Aisha Qidwae Two North Side organizations located on North Kedzie Avenue a few short blocks apart, serve Korean seniors; each provides unique – and evolving – services. The Center for Seniors has seen its daycare service grow from serving seven seniors to 80 per day. Meanwhile, the […]
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Submitted on Tue, 09/25/2007 – 12:23. Story by Michael Pasternak Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th Ward) told developers from the Southside Builders Association on Sept. 12 the largest vacant lakefront property left in Chicago will be broken into several parcels for sub-development, and she hopes they’ll get involved. “I consider it the best-kept secret in Chicago,” […]
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Submitted on Mon, 09/24/2007 – 03:10. Story by Michelle Diotallevi The sun beat down on Carmen Agoyosilva outside a mock refugee camp in Chicago’s Grant Park. In a few moments she would tour a Doctors Without Borders camp. Over the next hour, she would get a taste of what a refugee would endure. (See slides […]
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Submitted on Wed, 09/19/2007 – 15:48. http://www.newstips.org/ Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement, will preside over a ceremony for a new garden named in her honor at the Al Raby High School for Community and Environment, 3545 W. Fulton Blvd., at 6 p.m. Sat., Sept. 22. The school itself, […]
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Submitted on Tue, 09/18/2007 – 14:42. Media activists are mobilizing for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing in Chicago to be held at Rainbow PUSH Coalition. The main issue being discussed this week is whether the FCC should allow greater media consolidation. The FCC is considering whether or not to lift restrictions on cross-ownership of […]
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