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Chicago Among Nation’s Leaders in Energy Efficient Buildings

July 14, 2010

A news report from Great Lakes Echo Minneapolis, Detroit and Indianapolis also among nation’s top 25 cities for buildings receiving Energy Star ratings. Schools lead the Great Lakes regional efforts. Click here to read more.
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An International May Day 2010 Brings Zenroren Trade Unionists to Honor Haymarket Square

May 1, 2010
An International May Day 2010 Brings Zenroren Trade Unionists to Honor Haymarket Square

May Day is also known as International Workers’ Day will forever be associated with Chicago because of the Haymarket Square Affair. The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions set May 1, 1886, as the date by which the eight-hour work day would become a standard and organized for a world-wide strike to fight...
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Pan-African Association Hosts Celebration to Benefit Chicago’s African Refugees

April 9, 2010
Pan-African Association Hosts Celebration to Benefit Chicago’s African Refugees

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Illinois’ 9th Congressional District Representative, will speak at the annual Pan-African Night fundraiser for the Pan-African Association. The Pan-African Association was formed in 2002 to serve, empower and promote the interests of all refugees and immigrants of African descent. As part of the programming for the evening, Congresswoman Schakowsky, along with...
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Journalists, Activists Debate Haiti News Coverage

February 19, 2010

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...
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Council Committee Declares Chicago a “Fair Trade City”

February 13, 2010
Council Committee Declares Chicago a “Fair Trade City”

The Chicago City Council this week passed a resolution declaring Chicago a Fair Trade city, joining cities like San Francisco and Missoula, Mont., in a symbolic movement against poor working conditions in third-world countries. The Fair Trade movement advocates paying higher prices to producers and maintaining basic social and environmental standards. A product designated...
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A Sudanese Survivor: Refugee’s Journey From “Lost Boy” to Self-Sufficiency Inspires Others

January 24, 2010

At first glance, seeing him sip a Stella Artois at a bar in the Loop, one would have no clue about the harrowing journey of the well-dressed man sporting a gray textured button-down, black dress pants, a shiny watch on his left hand and an earring in his left ear. Based on his appearance,...
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O’Brien: Keeping Lake Michigan Clean?

By Curtis Black, Newstips Editor “It’s my job to clean up our water and keep pollution out of Lake Michigan,” says MWRD president Terrence O’Brien in the first TV ad of his campaign for County Board president (watch it on youtube). “It’s time to clean up Cook County.” In fact, as Newstips reported last April, under...
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Green, Organic Approach and Rooftop Farm Sets Uncommon Ground Apart

December 28, 2009

With two restaurants located in the city, Uncommon Ground’s unique focus on fresh and organic goes from the food served to hungry customers to the rooftop farm that makes it an eco-friendly trailblazer. Uncommon Ground’s eatery at 1401 W. Devon is the first restaurant in the country to have a certified organic rooftop farm....
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Somali Finds Refuge in Albany Park English Class

December 25, 2009

Yasmin Mohamed, a Somali refugee living in Chicago, endured one of the globe’s greatest humanitarian crises, but understanding her future means journeying to ZIP code 60625. Four mornings a week Yasmin winds her way down Whipple Ave. to the Albany Park Community Center. The second floor classroom is a global village of 26 students...
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Local Student’s Green Life Gets Her to Sundance

December 23, 2009
Local Student’s Green Life Gets Her to Sundance

Brittany Frandsen, a 20-year-old film student at Columbia College Chicago, is on her way to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, but not because of a film. It was her environmentally friendly South Loop apartment that got her there. Frandsen was the winner of Brita’s Filter For Good green room contest, a...
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