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From Lake Effect News Almost two years after being indicted on charges that they allegedly tampered with absentee ballots favoring Ald. Berny Stone in the 2007 50th Ward aldermanic race, defendants Anish Eapen and Armando Ramos will have to wait it out a little longer. Eapen is the former ward superintendent for the Chicago Streets and Sanitation...
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By Curtis Black, Newstips Editor “It’s my job to clean up our water and keep pollution out of Lake Michigan,” says MWRD president Terrence O’Brien in the first TV ad of his campaign for County Board president (watch it on youtube). “It’s time to clean up Cook County.” In fact, as Newstips reported last April, under...
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Are you an aspiring Writer, Actor, Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Talk Show Host, Recording Engineer, Beat Maker and/or Producer between the ages of 15 and 19 years old? You can audition for the “Apprenticeship After School Program For Talented Teens” sponsored by AfterSchoolMatters.org and get paid while you learn and develop your talent. Teen...
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Arlene Malinowski is a Chicago-based actress who grew up with deaf parents. She uses her experiences to create her plays. She celebrates the funny, the difficult and the interesting moments of being a hearing child to deaf parents.
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With debt, foreclosures, unemployment and heating costs on the rise, low-income families often find themselves falling behind. To help bring some relief during the upcoming tax season, the Center for Economic Progress is recruiting volunteers to help bring free tax and financial services to families who need them most.
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ProPublica is an “independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with ‘moral force.’ We do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate...
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The grim news is that every four minutes someone is diagnosed with blood cancer (lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma) and someone dies from the disease every 10 minutes. Nearly 140,000 Americans were expected to be diagnosed with blood cancer in 2009, accounting for 9.5 percent of new cancer cases diagnosed in the United States. The good...
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