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Mujeres Latinas en Acción Commemorates Domestic Violence Awareness Month
In efforts to respond to the needs of many individuals and families who struggle with violence in their home, Mujeres Latinas en Acción has designed a month-long program to connect, empower and educate the Latino community during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. For the first time, Mujeres will conduct a Latina leadership open to Latina professionals [...]
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Universidad Popular Reaches Community Empowerment Through Culture
A community center in Little Village, Universidad Popular, not only encourages new ideas, but works to establish strong events in order to encourage participation in the community. One such event, Feria del Mole, will celebrate six years of success on Sept. 24 at the Arturo Velasquez Institute. Participants can try about 40 different moles and [...]
Rocio’s Custom Metal Works: An American Dream that Became a Reality
For many, the Stockyards is a symbol of the American Dream, a place where immigrants have settled throughout the years to work and provide a better future for their families. John Lamonica and his family are no different. In 1891, his ancestors migrated from Germany and settled in the Stockyards. A family of ironworkers, they [...]
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Bishop Shepard: Summer Refuge for Youth
Summer vacation could be frustrating for many inner city youth like Zakeyia Monique Brown, a 13-year-old who would otherwise be bored at home if she didn’t have a community center to spend her summer days. After leaving school for the summer, Brown’s mother worried that her daughter would spend the summer unoccupied if the Bishop [...]
Literacy Chicago: Promotes Adult Education, Partners with Local Schools
Almost 20 years ago Literacy Volunteers of Chicago and Literacy Council of Chicago, two successful organizations, combined their resources and merged into one organization – Literacy Chicago. Today, the organization has expanded from their downtown location to several communities, bringing much needed resources to neighborhoods like Back of the Yards. “Literacy Chicago provides much needed [...]
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TRP Helps Residents Get One Step Closer to Financial Goals
For more than 20 years The Resurrection Project has been a community organization serving Chicago’s primarily low-income neighborhoods of Pilsen, Little Village, Back of the Yards and Chicago’s western suburbs. Since January, The Resurrection Project introduced a Financial Services Division to Back of the Yards in order to help clients and applicants assess their financial [...]
Boyz-2-Men Youth Group
Monalito Fleming, 17, a student from Tilden High School, is aware of the ills that await him outside of school. “Shooting dice, chasing after females, or getting into a bunch of devious stuff,” Fleming says, are only a few of the negative distractions outside of school. However, following the steps of those who join gangs [...]
Agency Profile: Alivio Medical Center
Alivio Medical Center is a community-based health center committed to serving uninsured, working poor families and individuals who would otherwise not access medical resources due to language and cultural barriers. Since its start, on Jan. 4, 1989, Alivio has provided access to quality cost-effective healthcare to the Latino community in Chicago by establishing clinics in [...]
Agency Profile: St. Joseph Youth Group
Hanging alongside a wall inside the St. Joseph Parish gym is a large black-framed bulletin board decorated in a collage of images, displaying, in brazen detail, past members and events of the St. Joseph Youth Group. “This kid right here is on his way to becoming a Cook County correctional officer,” said St. Joseph Youth [...]
Crime Stoppers: Keeping Neighborhoods Safe
Back of the Yards has seen it all—hopeful arriving immigrants from Ireland, Poland, and Mexico, hardworking residents expanding their roots and cultures blending rapidly as years passed. As Back of the Yards became the community that welcomed everyone regardless of their country of origin, their race or ethnic background, it also became vulnerable to an [...]
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