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Bohemian National Cemetery to get preservation funds
Submitted on Fri, 11/30/2007 – 13:41. Story by Jason Porterfield The Bohemian National Cemetery will receive $26,000 in preservation grants this Fall to repair its historic water tower, thanks to the American Express Partners in Preservation Chicagoland Initiative. The cemetery’s brick and wood water tower rises above the cemetery’s fencing near the intersection of N. […]
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Submitted on Thu, 11/29/2007 – 01:57. Story by Brian Matos Faced with a declining student enrollment in the city’s Catholic schools, Cardinal Francis George is proposing that all Archdiocesan parishes be required to fund a Catholic school even if they don’t have one. This proposal is one of the more dramatic ideas being considered to […]
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Submitted on Wed, 11/28/2007 – 13:46. Story by Dara Belic SisterHouse is a substance abuse recovery home for women on Chicago’s West Side that opened its doors in 1982. This month, the center affiliated with School Sisters of Notre Dame, celebrated its 25th anniversary at the John Hancock’s Signature Room. The success of the residential […]
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Submitted on Tue, 11/27/2007 – 13:44. Story by Tom Smith Chicago Public Schools is failing black children, and it’s time to act. That’s the message Philip Jackson and roughly 50 supporters dressed in yellow t-shirts with the words “educate or die” delivered to the Chicago Board of Education on Nov. 14. “Because our children fail […]
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Submitted on Mon, 11/26/2007 – 13:42. Story by Carlos Ardila [email protected] The renovated Montrose train station is scheduled to open Nov. 26, a year after it was closed to the public. Before it shut down as part of the $530 million renovation project for the Brown line, the Montrose stop had a monthly rider ship […]
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Submitted on Fri, 11/23/2007 – 15:16. Although places of worship might seem an unlikely location for health initiatives, public health officials are using them to reach out to Chicago’s minority communities. Last Sunday, 89 members of the South Side Salem Baptist Church received flu shots and more are scheduled for Dec. 16. The approach is […]
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Submitted on Thu, 11/22/2007 – 14:30. Story by Dara Belic South Loop residents learned of a high number of arrests and unchecked drug activity at a senior citizen apartment building in the 2nd Ward at a recent CAPS meeting. Chicago police officers made 70 arrests in September said Beat 1213 Officer Alex Errum. “Seventy is […]
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