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Pros Arts Studio is Now Elevarte Community Studio
The staff of Pros Arts Studio revealed the organization’s new name, Elevarte Community Studio, at its sold out Pozolada event to support free arts programming for youth throughout the year. The organization will host an open house on Jan. 18 at Dvorak Park to celebrate its new name. Pros Arts Studio Ahora es Elevarte Community [...]
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Chicago “Paints the Sky Red” for World AIDS Day
Chicago Unites, a network of HIV/AIDS consumers, health and human service providers, preventive health advocates, members of the faith-based community and community members at-large as well as members of SHARP and WHARP set a goal to turn Chicago’s sky red by releasing red balloons simultaneously. As part of a series of events that will kick off [...]
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After School Matters Now Accepting Applications from Chicago High School Students
Thousands of program opportunities in the arts, communications, sports, science and technology available to teens across the city After School Matters is now accepting applications for its spring programs, most of which begin early February. Programs in the arts, communications, science, sports and technology will be offered at 52 Chicago Public Schools high schools, and [...]
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800 Free Mammograms for Uninsured Women
The Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force launched a new city wide initiative called Beyond October! to provide over 800 free mammograms to uninsured women. The Beyond October! initiative aims to emphasize the importance of mammograms beyond Breast Cancer Awareness month and will help to lessen waitlists in the State’s Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer [...]
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Davis Square Park Gets New Soccer Field
The Chicago Park District was joined by Chicago-area youth athletes, coaches, a consortium of public-private donors and elected officials on Nov. 10 to celebrate the grand opening of the new artificial turf soccer field at Davis Square Park as part of the Take the Field initiative. Take the Field joins public and private resources to [...]
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Parents Rally for Quality Schools
On the eve of the Chicago Public Schools Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 13, parents and community members from across the city gathered outside CPS headquarters to shed light on the lack of quality public schools in many of Chicago’s communities of color, including Austin, Lawndale, Englewood, Humboldt Park and Roseland. Demanding CPS [...]
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Latino Voters in 2012 Elections
Latinos voted for President Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney 71 to 27 percent, according to an analysis of exit polls by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center. Obama’s national vote share among Hispanic voters is the highest seen by a Democratic candidate since 1996, when President Bill Clinton won [...]
Back of the Yards Officers of the Month
Information submitted by the 9th District Police On Tuesday, Sept. 18, the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council recognized the following police officers as Officers of the Month during their quarterly meeting. On Sept. 5, 9th District Officers Erin Murphy and John Sego observed two male suspects walking southbound on Racine Ave. matching the [...]
J-Def Peace Project Sculpture Unveiled
Teens in the After School Matters J-Def Peace Project honored the memory of a young victim of gang violence, Jeff Maldonado Jr. with a sculpture dedication ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 18. The ceremony included the release of monarch butterflies to symbolize the growth of teens in the program and the efforts of the community towards [...]
City Council Passes Welcoming City Ordinance
The Chicago City Council passed an ordinance on Wednesday Sept. 12 that protects undocumented immigrants in Chicago. The ordinance builds on an existing city policy that prohibits agencies from inquiring about the immigration status of people seeking city services, and asks the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to leave out questions regarding immigration status when communicating [...]
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