The grim news is that every four minutes someone is diagnosed with blood cancer (lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma) and someone dies from the disease every 10 minutes. Nearly 140,000 Americans were expected to be diagnosed with blood cancer in 2009, accounting for 9.5 percent of new cancer cases diagnosed in the United States.
The good news...
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In a 48-to-1 vote, Chicago City Council passed a resolution Nov. 18 supporting a halt to the deportation of UIC junior Rigoberto Padilla and other undocumented students. The resolution sponsored by Ald. George Cardenas (12th) called on Congress to pass the Dream Act of 2009, a bill introduced by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) that...
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On Tuesday, November 4th, Maine residents voted to repeal the rights of gays to marry. The next day, Chicagoans responded with a rally in support of gay rights. Reporter Tony Merevick brings us the story from Chicago’s Thompson Center.
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Maine In Perspective (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)
“I think we have to seriously consider whether there is...
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By John O’Neill, LISC Chicago’s New Communities Program
Most of the year, Michael Harris Jr. is a mild-mannered student at Austin Polytechnical Academy on the West Side. But this summer, Harris was transformed into “Solar Mike” — thanks to Youth Ready Chicago at the Science Institute at Columbia College.
Harris was one of 20 students, recruited...
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The Active Transportation Alliance is partnering with RTA, CTA, Pace and Metra to encourage people to get around with transit or on bike and on foot, and asking you to consider joining the thousands of people around Chicagoland who will pledge to leave their cars at home for the inaugural Chicagoland Car-Free Day Sept....
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By Ed Finkel, LISC Chicago’s New Communities Program
Residents of Chicago’s Near West Side will be able to shop at a full-service grocery store for the first time in four decades when Pete’s Fresh Market opens in 2011.
The Chicago Reporter and Chicago Matter’s
The Color of Money helps provide
more context for this issue.”
The local, produce-oriented...
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By Cristobal Martinez of Neighborhood Sports Chicago
This summer, the open space at 31st Street and Lawndale Avenue in Little Village has been overtaken by families. They gather on Tuesday nights as part of Project Play, a creation of the non-profit Beyond the Ball. At Project Play, kids, moms and dads are able to enjoy...
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By Joseph White of Neighborhood Sports Chicago
Summer and vacation go hand in hand. But for too many kids, “vacation” just means a break from school, because they rarely actually go anywhere. Instead, they spend most of their summer inside the house, or hanging around the neighborhood. But for the last ten years, Andrew Dortch...
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UPDATE added on July 30, 2009: Via e-mail from Rebecca Blazer, Director, Forest Preserve Initiative, Friends of the Parks Tel 312-857-2757 x17.
“In the City Council meeting yesterday, the Air Pollution Control Ordinance with Ald. Doherty’s amendments restricting burning WAS DEFERRED!
I believe it takes two alderman for an ordinance to be deferred, but...
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July 29, 2009 – The Chicago Parking Meter Campaign, a group that opposes Chicago’s privatization of parking meters, has called a protest today at 11:30 a.m. outside council chambers in City Hall. The group wants a rollback of meter rates and an end to meter privatization.
Meanwhile, a protest by South Chicago residents against the...
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