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Dressed for Success Teaming up With Columbia College For Dec. 1 Collection

Dressed for Success Teaming up With Columbia College For Dec. 1 Collection

‘Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.’ – Marilyn Monroe, quoted by Marie Claire magazine. Shoes may not make the woman, but having a stylish, polished pair can provide a self-esteem boost that can help her get on her feet. #GivingShoesDay takes place Tuesday (Dec. 1), sponsored by the national […]

Filmmaker Malik Bader and the Making of “Cash Only”

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Filmmaker Malik Bader and the Making of “Cash Only”

In just one month with a budget barely big enough to make a music video, Malik Bader directed a film about an Albanian slum-lord in Detroit called “Cash Only.” A Chicago native, Bader was working on a teen film in Los Angeles when he got an email from Nickola Shreli, an Albanian actor from Detroit. […]

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Black Aldermen Question Dash-cam Video as City Braces for Protests

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Black Aldermen Question Dash-cam Video as City Braces for Protests

Chicago City Council’s Black Caucus reacted Wednesday to the release of a video showing the shooting of a black teen by a white police officer. A dash-cam video was released Tuesday showing Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald as he walked down the street, away from the officers. McDonald was shot […]

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Pat Boyle Talks Sports and Journalism

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Pat Boyle Talks Sports and Journalism

Comcast Sportsnet Chicago anchor Pat Boyle won the Midwest Emmy award for Outstanding Achievement for his piece “Individual Excellence on Camera” in 2006. Boyle graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in telecommunications. He worked at ESPN for 4 years until he moved to the Windy City, where he has spent the last 11 […]

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Town Hall Examines Teen Mental Health

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Town Hall Examines Teen Mental Health

As a child, Kelvin Roston Jr. never invited any friends over to his house. He wasn’t anti-social and he had friends, but his mother had a mental illness and he wasn’t sure how guests would react to her. Beyond the feelings of others, Roston didn’t know how to navigate his own feelings about his mother. […]

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Uptown Residents Use Positive Loitering to Take Back Streets

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Uptown Residents Use Positive Loitering to Take Back Streets

Residents in the city’s North Side neighborhood of Uptown have launched a new campaign designed to counter panhandlers, street crime and prostitution. They call it Positive Loitering. Positive Loitering is designed to eradicate pubic occurrences of what they call “negative loitering” in the gentrifying Chicago neighborhood. The Uptown Chicago Commission sponsors the program along with […]

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Chicago Board of Education Votes to Close Three Charter Schools

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Chicago Board of Education Votes to Close Three Charter Schools

As they waved signs displaying witty slogans, passionately chanted  phrases, and gave emotional testimony, students, teachers, and parents protested at the Chicago Board of Education meeting Wednesday demanded the board vote against closing four South Side charter schools. In the end the board voted to close two charter schools, the Amandla Charter School and the Barbara […]

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