From The Center Square Journal comes an interesting story about local Web-related businesses that are finding a comfortable and affordable home in Ravenswood, North Center and nearby.
The startup atmosphere is part of why the EveryBlock team chose the Ravenswood corridor.
“There’s a lot of startup activity around here,” said EveryBlock founder Adrian Holovaty. “It just...
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The Chicago City Council this week passed a resolution declaring Chicago a Fair Trade city, joining cities like San Francisco and Missoula, Mont., in a symbolic movement against poor working conditions in third-world countries.
The Fair Trade movement advocates paying higher prices to producers and maintaining basic social and environmental standards. A product designated as...
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The Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation (GADC) newsletter is available online. Some of the events and news highlighted in this issue includes news that the Community Green Jobs initiative designed to enhance the existing litter-free program will be supported with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to create 10 eco-friendly jobs. GADC’s Green Ambassadors...
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Shanghai’s disconnect immediately juts out in the form of a disjointed cityscape. The sculpture, created by overlapping photographs done by artist Isidro Blasco, mimics contemporary China overtaking a series of red-roofed homes clustered in the center.
Blasco’s piece reflects constant construction and constant growth, from traditional Shanghai to a modernized Shanghai, causing fragmentation of the...
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By LISC/Chicago’s New Communities Program and Community Beat Blog
July 23, 2009 – Mayor Daley was in Pilsen July 21 promoting “digital excellence,” but what does that mean? The hope is that in the four demonstration communities of Pilsen, Englewood, Chicago Lawn and Auburn Gresham, use of digital tools and the internet will become commonplace...
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