Image via Wikipedia Law enforcement officers are people who serve and protect our country. But if you walk down the streets of the South Side of Chicago, some residents there will tell a different story. “They took my little brother and put him against the wall and roughed him up,” said Quentin Batteast. Batteast, now […]
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Construction Season. Congress and Wabash biverson has added a photo to the pool: Effortlessly uploaded by Eye-Fi New CTA car on Purple Line biverson has added a photo to the pool: Effortlessly uploaded by Eye-Fi Different layout of new car on CTA biverson has added a photo to the pool: Effortlessly uploaded by Eye-Fi Wicker […]
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Image via Wikipedia Just before Terrance Little took over as principal of Wendell Phillips High School on July 1, he took a quick tour of the school and one word came to mind: “Chaos.” “It looked like a zoo,” Little said. “If a school doesn’t look like a school, then it’s not a school.” With the […]
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Lissie the extinction blues has added a photo to the pool: Lincoln Hall Chicago, IL January 23rd, 2010 Now on iTunes the extinction blues has added a photo to the pool: some hip new band on iTunes, I think they’re called the Strokes or something. Beat City now now the extinction blues has added a […]
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Image by beautifulcataya via Flickr Despite signs that the Chicago economy is slowly pulling out of a recession, servers at restaurants in the city say their customers are spending money carefully: tipping less, ordering inexpensive meals and cutting back on liquor. Several servers from high-end Chicago restaurants said, even though their incomes have increased since […]
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Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr “Health care costs a lot of money and you’re probably not using it a lot of the time,” says 22-year-old Randy Densmore as he lights up a cigarette. “In theory, I think it benefited me to not have health insurance.” After graduating high school four years ago in Wallingford, […]
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Chicago‘s Back of the Yards neighborhood, a part of the New City community area, is a working class neighborhood. Most of the neighborhood’s residents do not have a high school degree, and 34.5 percent of residents live below the poverty level, compared to the Chicago average of 19.6 percent. According to the most recent census […]
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