Access Living, governed and staffed by people with disabilities, is Chicago’s only center for independent living that focuses on full equality, inclusion and empowerment of all people with disabilities.
On Thursday, Feb. 11, Access Living will host a Historic Six-City Listening Tour organized by the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). ...
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Local officials in Austin say if Chicago Public School leaders don’t create more high school seats in the West Side neighborhood, more youth will end up in the streets of Chicago’s toughest areas. But CPS officials say Austin residents will have to be content with their three Renaissance 2010 high schools.
Austin High School, the...
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In years past, U.S. Steel’s South Works plant in South Chicago gushed flame and created towering piles of slag as it forged the steel that built skyscrapers around Chicago and across the country. Nowadays, South Works is mostly empty, deserted land. But developers hope to turn it into a mixed-income development that they say...
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The Chicago Transit Authority voted last week to put a vacant, historically significant property in the Armitage-Halsted Landmark District at 939 W. Armitage Ave. back on the real estate market.
The Queen Anne-style property in Lincoln Park, which is adjacent to the Armitage station’s east side, was partially demolished in 2006 as part of the...
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The massive brick building at 931 S. Homan Ave. once housed a power plant to provide electricity and heat for the adjacent Sears & Roebuck headquarters. Now the building powers the minds of young people in Chicago.
In September, Henry Ford Power House Charter High School opened its doors.
Power House High is located inside of...
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Residents of the Lathrop Homes public housing project ramped up their campaign to save the development on Wednesday, with leaders announcing that talks between a residents’ committee and the Chicago Housing Authority have come to a standstill.
Robert Davidson, president of the Lathrop Homes Local Advisory Council, said the CHA wants to move forward with...
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One Lakeview neighborhood organization hopes to open a free health care clinic in the North Side neighborhood.
The Lakeview Action Coalition has made the clinics its top priority after conducting a survey in 2007 that indicated a need for primary health care within the community.
But one city health official says the neighborhood doesn’t need a...
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By Curtis Black, Newstips Editor, Community Media Workshop
With neighborhood economic development groups objecting to a major reduction in city funding at a time of growing job loss, 22 aldermen have submitted a resolution ordering the Mayor’s Office of Budget and Management to restore the funds in the city’s proposed 2010 budget.
The resolution is on...
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A barren Ravenswood parking lot may soon be home to a grocery store, parking garage, condo complex and more — if the developer’s “plan B” manages to appease the community that gave a cold shoulder to his first attempt earlier this year.
The “Ravenswood Station” mixed-use development would be built on a now-vacant Sears parking lot...
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Community gardens. Buying the Leone Beach house. Security cameras on the “L” platforms.
Those were just a few of the suggestions 49th Ward residents gave last week on how to spend next year’s aldermanic menu money during a community meeting held by Ald. Joe Moore (49th). In what Moore says will be...
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