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Are You Game for Making a Game? Global Game Jam Comes to Blue1647

BLUE1647 is a site for the 2015 Global Game Jam and you’re invited! No age restrictions, its free, and in a safe place. The Global Game Jam is a 48-hour worldwide event where you go to a local site, find a team, and make a game based around a secret theme. What’s the secret theme? I can’t […]

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Free Film And Discussion “Chicago’s School Closings”

Film Screening, Research Presentation, and Discussion – open to the public, free. Hosted by the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research and The School Project: David and Reva Logan Center for the Arts, Performance Hall University of Chicago Thursday, January 22nd 6:30 P.M. – 9:30 p.m. The second installment in The School Project […]

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Making A Change With Design: New Hope For Gestational Diabetes

Hector Silva awoke early one spring morning to a phone call from his brother. Silva answered the call and was devastated by what he heard on the other end. There had been complications with his sister-in-law’s pregnancy and the little girl she had delivered the night before had died. “I had a really hard time understanding […]

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Curb Auto: A Path to a New Future

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Curb Auto: A Path to a New Future

Two blocks behind Chicago Midway International Airport on116 S. LaVergne St. is Curb Auto, a body shop that not only specializes in the renovation of classic hot rods, but also provides Chicago’s troubled youth and ex-gang members with a place to learn life and job skills. In 2007, Alex Levesque turned the empty warehouse on Chicago’s […]

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Yesterday Not Over Yet, at Least in Chicago

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Yesterday Not Over Yet, at Least in Chicago

Nestled in the shadow of Wrigley Field and packed to the brim with old newspapers, sports memorabilia and classic film posters, Yesterday is a nostalgic collector’s dream. “I’ve collected items since I was a child,” said Tom Boyle, the 83-year-old founder and owner of the shop just a few steps off the Addison red line […]

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Protests regarding Brown, Garner march through Chicago streets

Hundreds of activists have gathered daily in downtown Chicago since a grand jury announced it would not indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager. Numbers of protesters have grown again in the days following the grand jury decision in New York not to indict a police officer […]

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Lakeview Women’s Group Provides Casual Space For Serious Discussion

What’s the secret to becoming powHERful? For an increasing number of women on the North Side, the answer is pizza and beer. Pizzeria Serio, known for its brick oven pizzas, is now home to “BODY IMAGE: Taking Away Judgment,” a new women’s group that celebrates local women learning to accept and embrace their physical appearances. […]

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