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April is STD Awareness Month–Get Tested Chicago!
In an effort to curb STD and HIV rates in the country, the CDC and the American Social Health Association have declared April as National STD Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about the dangers associated with STDs and their prevalence in some areas. Sexually transmitted diseases are an issue throughout the United States and Chicago is […]
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Do you live in the 8th Ward? In Marynook, Avalon Park, Pill Hill, Chatham, Jeffrey Manor, South Shore or Grand Crossing? Check out our special line to your community. You may have heard or used that useful Everyblock.com site. The site finds information – data feeds – and pulls them into a searchable form oriented […]
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State Senate President John Cullerton (6th) has an idea to fix the state’s teacher pension shortfall, but Illinois taxpayers may feel the crunch: he’s asking for more money from school districts. John Patterson, Cullerton’s spokesman, said Illinois school districts contributed only $171 million, or less than one percent, to the total Teacher Retirement System (TRS) pension […]
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The sunset at 7:22 p.m. on Monday, but the lights came on in the last building left standing at Cabrini-Green, at 7 p.m. according to the Chicago Tribune. The building is a high-rise, that used to be on Burling, but is now located at Halsted and Division, because the city has closed off Burling St. […]
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Chicago’s 10th annual St. Paddy’s 5K and 8K Run/Walk benefiting the Irish-American Heritage Center
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St. Patrick allegedly fought off snakes. We had technical difficulties with filing this story, but we’ve driven them out of our site. Jacquelyn’s review of Chicago’s 2011 St. Paddy’s 5K and 8k Run/Walk which was held on March 20th at the Irish Heritage Center in Mayfair features some of the participants, including some local students […]
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Patricia Robinson thought her 2-year-old son’s obsession with driving his toy cars in the window sill of their Englewood home was harmless. Until a blood draw at a routine check-up found that he had elevated levels of lead in his blood. Her son’s pediatrician told her that the dust and chipped paint in the window […]
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On Monday March 28th, sunset’s officially at 7:12 p.m. As darkness falls, you can view an amazing public art installation at 1230 N. Burling, that’s the corner of Burling and Division, right east of Halsted and Division. Jan Tichy’s Project Cabrini Green, a public art installation will light up for the first time, and flash […]
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