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Eye-Opening Seminar Exposes North Side Gangbanging
By Lorraine Swanson, Editor, Lake Effect News In a packed auditorium at Swedish Covenant Hospital, a North Side audience snacked on chocolate Macadamia nut cookies donated by a local Costco and got a few lessons in gangbanging. Much of the information presented at last week’s community gang awareness seminar hosted by Cook County State’s Attorney […]
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Englewood Pastors Excluded From CPS Anti-Violence Plan, Millions Go to Out-of-State Group
September 29, 2009 Comments OffIn an effort to push a $30 million anti-violence plan, the Chicago Board of Education has decided to partner with a national advocacy organization based out-of-state, upsetting a group of local pastors who see no need to give the work to the Pennsylvania organization. The board last week approved a $5 million contract with Youth […]
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Parents, Faculty Desperate For New Addition To Jam-Packed Edgebrook Elementary School
September 28, 2009 Comments OffWhen students at Edgebrook Elementary School need help learning English, they report to an unlikely spot — a table tucked behind a partition on a stairwell landing. They buy their hot lunches from folding tables set up in the hallway, and without a cafeteria, they eat their food at their desks. Their music teacher, who […]
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Chicago Waits: One Week Until Olympic Announcement, Site of Potential Olympic Village Set for Demolition
September 25, 2009 Comments Off
The countdown is on. In less than a week Chicagoans–and the rest of the world–will know which city will the host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The campus of the Michael Reese Hospital, targeted as a potential Olympic Village should Chicago win the bid, is set for demolition. Some preservationists remain upset, believing that the hospital […]
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Northwest Side to Get Another Library As West Side Fights to Keep Branches Open
September 24, 2009 Comments Off
One of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Chicago will start work on a third public library next year, while two aldermen from the struggling West Side fight for funding to keep their library branches open. Recently retired Ald. William J. P. Bank’s (36th) seven-year effort to bring a third library to his ward moved one step […]
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DePaul Professor: Second Wave of Foreclosures Coming, Need for Affordable Housing Grows
September 23, 2009 Comments OffBy Dimitrios Kalantzis, Contributing Editor, Lake Effect News Last month the Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University released a study, which found a significant increase in Chicago rental vacancies, from 5 to 5.7 percent in the last year. Such findings seem intuitive. As the Chicago region’s unemployment rate rose to double digits throughout the recession, […]
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News and Notes from the 2nd Ward, Town Hall Meeting This Week Will Address Housing Issues
September 22, 2009 Comments OffAld. Robert Fioretti (2nd) will hold a Town Hall Meeting Wednesday evening to discuss critical, post-turnover issues faced by homeowners and condominium associations. The meeting will feature a panel of local experts who will discuss the challenges of dealing with condo construction defects, irresponsible or unresponsive developers and general contractors and the resulting excessive assessments. […]
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