June 30, 2009 – Maybe you’ve seen them in a parking lot near your house, zipping along a busy thoroughfare, or on display at a local street festival. It’s I-GO Car Sharing, and the Rogers Park community has been savvy on this non-profit’s purpose for years. “The Rogers Park community really reaches out to...
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June 29, 2009 – The Illinois Student Assistance Commission announced Friday thousands of college students are facing a loss of $275 million in grants and scholarships if state lawmakers do not pass a fully-funded budget by month’s end. Impending cuts would affect approximately 40,000 Illinois students currently receiving support from the Monetary Assistance Program,...
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June 26, 2009 – A record-high 500,000 participants and spectators are expected June 28 in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood  for the 40th annual Gay Pride Parade.  With the increase in attendence, parade coordinator Richard Pfeiffer said barricades would line the entire 18-block route for the first time. Previously, the city donated barricades for just three...
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June 26, 2009 – Lew Kreinberg’s back in town, and it’s like he never left. The veteran organizer, rabble-rouser, and troublemaker is still irrepressible and reflexively provocative. Eight years ago he retired from the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, the organization he co-founded in 1964, and moved to Mississippi. “Katrina blew us out,” he...
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By Jame Ginderske of  The Urban Coaster June 25, 2009 – Area residents, outraged by the Chicago Park District’s proposal to charge new fees for overnight parking at Loyola and Leone Parks, packed this month’s meeting of the Chicago Park District Board. The result of their activism was a compromise. In exchange for daytime...
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June 24, 2009 – Over the last 20 years, Community Supported Agricultures (CSA) have become a popular way for consumers to buy fresh produce and support local farmers. In this video, the owners of Engagee1, Rick and Deadra Montgomery, explain why they are bringing a CSA to Chicago’s South Side. Business leaders offer CSA...
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June 23, 2009 – Some Cook County Board members are questioning the ethics of Cook County  paying millions of dollars for land co-owned by 15th District Commissioner Tim Schneider. The Forest Preserve of Cook County has filed a  petition to use eminent domain and buy the land now occupied by the Rolling Knolls Country...
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By Curtis Black of Community Media Workshop June 22, 2009 – Amid its recurring budget crisis, the State of Illinois has yet to comply with a ten-year-old Supreme Court ruling that would save money by giving nursing home residents the choice of moving out and obtaining less expensive community services. And projected budget cuts...
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June 19, 2009 – A community garden that provides food to 129 households in the low-income neighborhood of Woodlawn has been scheduled to be destroyed by the University of Chicago. In a letter to Jack Spicer,  the garden coordinator, the University of Chicago’s Vice President of Community Affairs, Sonya Malunda, said the university would...
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