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Sharon Morgan sits at her desk surrounded by piles of paperwork and a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee. As she shuffles through the paperwork, she marks her calendar on the day where she plans to speak to her 7th and 8th grade students about completing applications for the best high schools in the city....
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Local officials in Austin say if Chicago Public School leaders don’t create more high school seats in the West Side neighborhood, more youth will end up in the streets of Chicago’s toughest areas. But CPS officials say Austin residents will have to be content with their three Renaissance 2010 high schools. Austin High School,...
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Imagine a community of 80,000 people living in a diverse residential area of young families, empty nesters and seniors, with good housing stock, lots of local businesses, but no newspaper. There could be opportunities in all those eyeballs, according to Mike Fourcher and Patrick Boylan, and they are out to capitalize on some of...
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The Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) was created in 1987 through funding provided by the Illinois Arts Council Access Program. The goals of CAAP are to discover, nurture and expand Chicago’s multi-ethnic artists and nonprofit arts organizations, and to foster new and emerging individual artists and arts groups by providing grants for professional, artistic...
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Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has spent the majority of his time over the last year clearing up what he considers misinformation about his platform and defending himself from what he said are daily attacks by the media, as well as attacks by his Democratic competition. Stroger, who was elected as board president...
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Chicagoist has a set of slides, and here are some we liked. Upload your own photos and story about the snow if you like. Related articles by Zemanta Today’s Weather: Excavation (chicagoist.com)
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With the primary less than a month away, the Cook County Board president race is heating up, and the hot button issue of sales tax remains at the forefront. On Saturday, the four Democratic candidates were at each others’ throats in a sometimes contentious forum held at Columbia College Chicago. After each candidate presented...
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Chicagoist has slides, and we thought it was a timely idea. More about “Chicago January 7th 2010,” posted with vodpod.
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The musical comedy “Terror at 35,000 Feet” opens with Albert Samuels as a co-pilot begrudgingly sharing the cockpit with his ex-wife and the Make-a-Wish foundation cancer boy whose last wish was to fly. He soon turns to the boy when a bomb is found on the plane and they need someone with “small hands...
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On Jan. 18, Martin Luther King‘s birthday, a national holiday, several local organizations and individuals plan to a march to protest budget cuts that will mean layoffs for CTA workers and reduced service for local residents. According to NoCTAcuts.org, the CTA plans to layoff 1,000 bus drivers and maintenance workers. The CTA service cuts...
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