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Police Supt. Gerry McCarthy assured residents that the consolidation of two North Side police districts would be beneficial. McCarthy made his remarks at Lakeview High School during a community meeting on Nov. 15th. McCarthy, along with five aldermen, explained the benefits of merging the 19th and 23rd police districts. The closing and consolidation of the...
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Most people struggle with time management, but aldermanic candidate Michael Carroll is facing an uphill battle. Carroll is a full-time officer in the Chicago Police Department‘s special investigations unit. He is also running for alderman in the 46th Ward on Chicago’s North Side. Meanwhile, he volunteers at a food pantry in his Uptown neighborhood,...
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In response to the number of gay teen suicides across the United States, efforts like the “It Gets Better Project” have sprung up online. Locally there are several resources available to young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered (LGBT) Chicagoans. A minor who lives on Chicago’s North Side and decides to come out can find support...
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By Curtis Black, Community Media Worshop The Organization of the North East expects a thousand members to attend its annual convention Monday night – and after the rally they’ll head over to a local apartment building for a vigil protesting slumlord neglect. ONE’s annual convention takes place Monday, June 7 at 7 p.m. at St....
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From The Rogers Park Garden Group – Rogers Park, Chicago comes this proposal that will warm any gardener’s heart during a chilly January. A proposal to “Adopt the Public Way” The Rogers Park Garden Group (RPGG) is delighted to make available a limited number of public gardening grants up to $1,000 for the improvement...
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With two restaurants located in the city, Uncommon Ground’s unique focus on fresh and organic goes from the food served to hungry customers to the rooftop farm that makes it an eco-friendly trailblazer. Uncommon Ground’s eatery at 1401 W. Devon is the first restaurant in the country to have a certified organic rooftop farm....
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Naida Okanovic remembers as a child reading a textbook her mother copiously hand duplicated word for word by candlelight in the refuge of a basement in Bosnia. The walls surrounding her shook as Serbian soldiers overhead ignited grenades. Okanovic, now 21, is a University of Illinois at Chicago student studying psychology. Her experiences in...
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By LISC, Chicago’s New Communities Program What a neighborhood can be is largely a function of what its residents and the people who work there do. On a day-to-day basis, their actions – organizing block clubs, mentoring the children of incarcerated parents, providing shelter to homeless people, tending a neighbor’s garden – may not be heroic...
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One Lakeview neighborhood organization hopes to open a free health care clinic in the North Side neighborhood. The Lakeview Action Coalition has made the clinics its top priority after conducting a survey in 2007 that indicated a need for primary health care within the community. But one city health official says the neighborhood doesn’t...
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Police and business owners in Uptown recently joined forces to develop a strategy to clean up a two-block stretch of puddles of urine, empty beer bottles and unsavory characters on Clifton Avenue, more commonly known as “Blood Alley.” The focus of last week’s meeting at Harry S. Truman College was the ongoing problems of...
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