< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” ?>   Lucia A. Crespo 11/8/08 Lyrics               Hip-hop listener Adrien Acevedo likes the new trend in lyrics toward less tough talk and more positive images of real life. “It’s not all about sex or money, but about dreams that people want to accomplish,”...
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By Juel Grange Andrea Tahlier, manager of Kroll's South Loop, says the end-of-year holidays are usually the restaurants busiest time of the year, but lately she’s noticed fewer customers at lunch time. “People just don’t seem to be going out for lunch anymore,” Tahlier said. The bar at Kroll’s has boosted business. “When times...
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                  A circle of people surround the entrance and parking lot of the ACU Health Center in Hinsdale.  Praying the rosary aloud, they are bundled up against the cold, bleak weather.  It is 6 a.m. Saturday and dark.              The group of 34 people is accompanied by small children. They are opposed to abortion and have...
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Pfc. Christen Rowland was only 18 when she decided to join the National Guard. Like many other people attracted to the military, Rowland knew she wanted to do something positive but wasn’t sure exactly where ti turn. Rowland said she found what she was looking for in the guard.   “At first I was...
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Nov. 26, 2008 – Five years ago, the Paseo Prairie Garden began as a hope and a dream, and today it's become one of the few parks in the Logan Square neighborhood. Despite countless hours of work and dedication put in by volunteers, community activists now face more serious issues in their effort to maintain the safe environment for...
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Nov. 25, 2008 – Bob Jackson has kept CeaseFire's Roseland office open since August of 2007, when he and his staff of 15 outreach workers were laid off after Gov. Rod Blagojevich vetoed $6.5 million in state funds for the violence prevention program. He's paid rent and utilities, mainly out of his pocket, running a one-person office on...
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Nov. 24, 2008 Story by Jessica Rosenberg On a dark October night in 1992, six-year-old Bishnu Khatiwada and his family arrived at their new home: a Nepalese refugee camp. The lack of electricity at the newly established compound made the Himalayan night that much darker. He remembers the eight-hour bus ride through India and...
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Nov. 21, 2008 Story by Abigail Feil The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and I-GO, a non-profit car-sharing program, plan to unveil a new joint program in December that will make it more eco-friendly and less expensive for commuters to get access to cars when they need them, and public transportation the rest of the...
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Nov. 20, 2008 – On a chilly autumn morning at the corner of 31st Street and Kostner Avenue, young athletes competed for gold medals. Teams of three fought through the coal dig and leapt over the coal hurdle before sprinting to the bus dash, ending their journey at a cardboard cutout signifying a downtown museum. No, this wasn't the Olympics,...
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Nov. 19, 2008 Story by Michelle Doellman Jose Quintero remembers clutching his mother’s hand on the tarmac of an airport in Havana, Cuba, on August 12, 1960. Soon Quintero would be in America, away from the rising Communist regime of Fidel Castro. Thirty-four years later, Juan Carlos Subiza, Quintero’s cousin, would make the same...
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