With three months remaining in the school year, there have been 118 shootings involving Chicago Public School students. The numbers, down from last year, have prompted Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) to introduce an anonymous Violence Prevention Hotline, but one representative said it is just another “useless mandate.”
House Bill 4647, which passed the House 112-1...
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SPRINGFIELD – For Dora Brooks-Rodriguez and Trista Bond, it’s the second chance they’ve been waiting for. After years of volunteering at their local schools, they are now on their way to the head of the classroom. But the program that has given more than 500 an opportunity at a college education and a second...
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When the final bell rings, high school students rush to the nearest door, excited to head home, hang out with friends, watch television and eat a home-cooked meal with their families. But 19-year-old Niaesha Shivers isn’t one of them. She is one of nearly 13,000 Chicago Public School students who is homeless.
For the past...
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On Jan. 12, a magnitude 7 earthquake hit near Port-Au-Prince and wiped out most of the city’s infrastructure in what experts say could be the worst natural disaster in modern history. The latest reports indicate that more than 200,000 have died and more than 1 million are left homeless.
These are the facts that we...
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It’s a silent epidemic that kills 100 young people in the United States every day; experts say if no action is taken in Illinois, 65,000 youths next year will be at risk. Suicide has become such a threat to young people that last year, the U.S. attorney general declared it a national health crisis.
To...
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City leaders’ dreams that the 2016 Olympics would come to Chicago ended in October, but their hopes for the economic development, job creation and neighborhood expansion the Games would have brought to the city are alive and well.
On a snowy afternoon on Feb. 9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago’s Neighborhood Development Awards hosted...
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State Rep. Dan Burke (D-Chicago) didn’t breathe easy until early Wednesday morning, when it became official that he had indeed held off Rudy Lozano, Jr. to secure his name on the November ballot.
It was the first time Burke had faced a challenge in a primary in nearly two decades of representing the 23rd House...
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With the Illinois state budget deep in the red, it’s not just schools that are feeling the pinch – before- and after-school programs are in peril as well, educators say.
Illinois has reduced funding for early childhood education, including before- and after-school programs, by 10 percent, said a spokesman for state Sen. Heather Steans (D-Chicago),...
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Gritty storefronts, boarded-up gas station windows, graffiti-covered pavement and a plethora of fast food restaurants are the sights that will meet your eyes on a drive through one of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods.
Located on the city’s West Side, Austin’s population is nearing 130,000, and as the population rises in what community activists call Chicago’s “forgotten...
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It was a full house, with over 200 women and a handful of men in an audience that was anxious to hear what the next Cook County Board president would do to protect and better serve women and men who are victims of violence.
The forum, Violence Against Women, held at Loyola University, is one...
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