Details of Design: Chicago exhibit includes treasured traces of Northwest Indiana : Arts-and-theatre
Continuing now through Aug. 17 in the Chicago Rooms at the Chicago Cultural Center at 78 E. Washington, is a new exhibit “Modernism’s Messengers: The Art of Alfonso and Margaret Iannelli.” The show tells a love story with a lasting impression on modern art design. There are wonderful items on display that were brought from [...]
Anna Jakubek: Domestic Workers Need Bill of Rights
In 1998, when Anna Jakubek came to the United States, she began working as a domestic worker. It wasn’t an easy job. “I went through a couple of jobs before I decided not to do it anymore. I had good experiences and bad experiences. Bad experiences were just basic things: not being paid or not [...]
Chicago Bears Wheelchair Rugby Puts Football to Shame
The smell of rubber wafts up from the basketball court inside the gymnasium. Silence reigns until Dan Krell, No. 9, yells “Nice wheels” to his teammate Joe Gerardi, No. 4. The wheels that he’s referring to are not affiliated with a new automobile, because Gerardi has cerebral palsy and he is in a wheelchair. Krell [...]
Pilsen Artist creates Art from Recyclable materials
Leticia Rodarte started her art career and became an entrepreneur at age eight. It started during grammar school in Mexico, she drew maps for her friends and charged them a “torta” for it, Rodarte said. “I started making my own money selling my drawings to friends from grammar school,” Rodarte said. “That’s when it started, [...]
Police Keep Licensed Peddlers Moving on 18th Street
Pilsen peddlers say business complaints to police have stopped them from selling on 18th Street. Anastacia Cortez, a licensed peddler for 15 years, said Chicago Police Officers have told her to move numerous times while selling on 18th Street. “The cops tell me that my post is mobile, and I have to keep moving, so I leave,” Cortez said. Cortez said she later is [...]
Community Living Replacing Institutions for Developmentally Disabled, Lags Downstate
Close to 500 severely disabled Illinoisans are in danger of losing their homes because of last year’s budget cuts mandated by Gov. Pat Quinn. While the average American might not see how a state-run institution can be home, for close to 30,000 Americans, it is. As the state closes institutions one by one, a battle [...]
Latino Policy Forum Gets Parents to Springfield and Beyond
Aimee Santiago is a Chicago native and mother of two children, 3-year-old Emiliano and 5-year-old Tlanextli. She had tried for four to five months to find a preschool for her oldest child. There was a waiting list. She and her husband qualify financially for a local program but if she got a raise at work, [...]
World Naked Bike Ride – Chicago | Celebrating freedom from oil, and the beauty of people.
This year on June 8th, will be the TENTH ANNUAL WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE CHICAGO. The event details are posted on various social networks. There is no alcohol permitted, and the route is kept secret until the ride. Some participants go naked, and some choose to wear minimal clothing. Bicyclists face vehicles “naked” in the [...]
Bradley Manning Supporters Rally Tonight at Buckingham Fountain
Chicagoans will show their support for wikileaks whistle-blower Pvt. Bradley Manning at 5:30 pm. tonight at Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park (350 S. Columbus Drive) as part of more than three dozen protests across the country and seven other nations. The protest is timed to coincide with the start of Manning’s trial for leaking the [...]
Recapping NATO Summit in Chicago: One Year Ago
Last year, Chicago hosted the NATO summit. Our reporters were there, live and on the ground. Many of our reporters will be graduating this week and so we pause to showcase their fine work. NATO stories and coverage was pulled together by Professor Teresa Puente and Steve Franklin in a special topics class. Look back [...]
Jillian Michaels smashes myths, fears in Chicago
Fitness guru Jillian Michaels says that when it comes to the top health problems in the United States – non-communicable diseases like Type 2 diabetes — “we make those ourselves.” Michaels, who spoke Friday night at Roosevelt University Auditorium, said Americans damage their health by eating cheap fast food. “You think you’re saving in the [...]
Manifest Talent, Identity, Achievement and Celebrate
It is the end of the semester at Columbia College Chicago, and Friday is that yearly explosion of talent and fun: Manifest. View the video preview and then read the 5 reasons Manifest is the place to be on Friday. 1. “Manifest Destiny” (Be there or be square) Columbia’s mission is, “to educate students who [...]
May Day march in Chicago focuses on immigration reform
Carl Rosen, a worker for the United Electrical Workers was one of hundreds of people who participated in a May Day march in downtown Chicago on May 1, calling for immigration reform. “We need to legalize the status of the 11 million undocumented workers that are here because otherwise they are being used to drive [...]
Black women marrying later, studies show
Sabrennia Fountain says she gets tired of hearing friends and family members urge her to marry and start a family. “I hear all the time I am not getting any younger and that they can’t wait until I get married and have children,” said Fountain, 40. “I often wonder why this affects them so much.” [...]
The White House looking for immigration sagas
From Cecilia Muñoz, Director, Domestic Policy Council for The White House comes this invitation. Do you have an immigration story to share? Share it with the country and the world: When Americans from all over the country — each with different backgrounds, each from different circumstances — all speak out with the same voice, it’s powerful in [...]
Temp Agencies and ‘Raiteros’ in Immigrant Chicago
[I]n Chicago’s Little Village, the largest Mexican community in the Midwest, the raiteros have melded with temp agencies and their corporate clients in a way that might be unparalleled anywhere in America — and could violate Illinois’ wage laws. Raiteros tell temp workers to show up early to secure work for the day, leading to [...]
Conversation on Mental Health
Columbia College Chicago Journalism Department and the Chicago Headline Club are hosting “The Conversation on Mental Health” on Thursday, May 2nd in Room 101 of 33 E. Congress from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Hear firsthand how mental illness has affected the loved ones of Obama strategist David Alexrod and Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page. WVON [...]
Opinion: Who do they think they are?
Do our Representatives in Congress represent “the people” or the NRA? Ever since the 1999 Columbine Massacre in Littleton, Colorado, gun violence has escalated universally. Therefore, we should have Universal Background Checks on gun sales that are consistent with gun violence. “We the people” re-elected President Obama and sent him to Washington with a clear agenda [...]
