Disney II Magnet Elementary’s initiative with local chefs to provide a better understanding of nutrition for students continues to make progress with Chicago Public School officials. Shari Berland, an advocate member for Disney II’s Interim Advisory Council, said the school is in conversation with CPS to get the initiative underway. CPS is considering Disney...
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Threatened with demolition last year, Prentice Women’s Hospital in the Gold Coast neighborhood is still standing and preservationists have stepped up their campaign to keep it that way. Northwestern University has plans to tear down the building designed by renowned Chicago architect Bertrand Goldbergand construct a new research center on the site. A coalition...
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  Henry D. Lloyd Elementary School parents, staff and children prepare their final goodbyes after the local school council formally announced its decision not to renew Principal Fernando Kim’s contract, which expires June 30. Some say the decision, announced on Feb. 1, was a result of the school’s low Illinois Standards Achievement Test, or...
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Jones College Prep held their monthly School Council Meeting Tuesday and discussed the impact of the G8 and NATO Summits. The G8 and NATO Summits coming to Chicago this spring made for some crucial decision making since the school is located in the South Loop, which is where the summits are to be held....
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More than 200 people gathered at the Union League Club in Chicago to celebrate International Women’s Day on Thursday.The event was organized by the International Trade Club, WorldChicago, and also the Union League Club of Chicago. The event was the 11thannual gathering of women leaders. Check out news and views of International Women’s Day from around...
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Students and Professors join in protest and discussion about Columbia College‘s new “Prioritization” plan. Students are concerned about plans to eliminate the Center for Black Music Research and Chicago Jazz Ensemble. The students use the “mic check” approach to express their concerns to Vice President for Academic Affairs/Interim Provost, Louise Love.
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For the rest of her life, Annie Crockford will have to live with the decisions she made as a teenager; decisions that now haunt her. Crockford began using indoor tanning beds at the age of 14. She tanned on a weekly basis for the next twelve years, which she believes attributed to her diagnosis...
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With gas prices soaring, proposed legislation to increase Illinois' gas tax has the social media buzzing.
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Nerd-er, she wrote! Nerds at Heart pays homage to the intrigue of the Ides of March with a mystery-themed dating party. Flirt with love and le morte over board games, trivia and a cocktail at Halsted Harp (2138 N. Halsted St.) on Sunday, March 25, from 4-7 p.m. Find your femme (or homme) fatale,...
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After a tornado ripped through a Southern Illinois town, Amtrak said that so far,  train travel had not been affected because none of its trains traveled close to Harrisburg. Mark Magliani, media relations manager of Amtrak, said if more storms develop, the trains would be advised to stop and wait for the tornado to...
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