Prostitution is once again on the rise between in Beat 814, between 43rd and 55th St., according to Beat Facilitator Holly Petroschuk. According to Petroschuk, prostitution is a continuing problem in the community and has been for a while. The problem died down but now it is an issue again, Petroschuk told attendees at a...
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Read/Write Library is a replicable model for community collections. It uses the lens of an archive to examine the creative, political, and intellectual interdependencies of a city, tracing how people have worked together, who influenced whom, where ideas first developed, and how they spread from one publication to another through individuals. Without making any...
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More than 60 North Side residents upset with Mayor Emanuel’s proposed 2012 budget--which includes cuts to close the city’s $600 million shortfall--attended a budget town hall meeting sponsored by Ald. Ameya Pawar (47th) at McPherson Elementary School last Wednesday evening.
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Chicago public libraries would reduce hours as a result of cuts in the 2012 city budget proposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Oct. 12. Emanuel said the city’s 79 library branches will have to reduce their hours on Monday and Friday mornings under his proposed budget. Only three regional libraries would maintain their regular...
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Ald. John Arena said he wants to develop more dining and entertainment options in the 45th ward as part of his effort to revitalize the business district there. Arena said vacancies and stagnation in the business district have been a persistent problem in the area. “Our residents need more choices in local retail and...
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  A new ordinance would require concession contractors at O’Hare and Midway International Airports to pay their employees more and close a loophole that allows thousands of concessions workers to be paid less than a ‘living wage,’ if Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), lead sponsor of the ordinance, has his way. The Stable Jobs, Stable...
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A new ordinance would require owners of foreclosed and vacant properties located within a 1,000-yard-radius of a school to hire watchmen to ensure students’ safe passage to and from school, if the ordinance’s sponsors Ald. Deborah Graham (29th) and Bob Fioretti (2nd) have their way. If passed, the Vacant Property Safe Passages Ordinance —...
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Although 10 years has passed since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the memories of the tragic event are not forgotten. A new photo exhibition at the Field Museum, “Ground Zero 360°,” commemorates the heroic lives of the New York City policemen, firefighters, ironworkers and other rescue workers who...
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Working Locally at the Green Exchange will take place  Wednesday, July 20, from noon to 2 p.m. at Ames Middle School at 1920 N. Hamlin Ave. The LEED Council and the Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA) are connecting area residents with a variety of new jobs anticipated over the next 18 months at the Green Exchange,...
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The controversial issue of unions in charter schools will have to be tackled by the newly elected Chicago city council another day, after a council education committee failed to have enough members present on Friday. The full committee did not attend the meeting, and so the pro-union resolution sponsored by Ald. Ricardo Munoz, (22nd Ward) and...
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