Chicago recently hosted the first of three public hearings required by last year’s legislative bill HB3767, which created the Obesity Prevention Initiative Act. This calls for the Illinois Department of Public Health to find solutions to the state’s obesity epidemic. The next two public hearings take place in Springfield on March 8 and Carbondale on March...
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This is a press release from the Chicago Foundation for Women. The event is free and open to everyone.
COOK COUNTY BOARD PRESIDENT CANDIDATE FORUM:
FOCUSING ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS
Thurs. Jan. 21st
6 p.m. (Doors open at 5:30)
Loyola University of Chicago, Water Tower Campus
111 E. Pearson St.
Beane Hall, 13th floor of Lewis Towers
Chicago
RSVP: No...
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As in many low-income neighborhoods nationwide, health care access is a serious problem in Morgan Park on the South Side of Chicago.
But a national program, the Health Careers Opportunity Program, aims to change this by sparking the interest of students in Morgan Park and other low-income communities in becoming health care professionals themselves. HCOP...
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By Lorraine Swanson, Editor, Lake Effect News
The Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch Medical Group pleaded its case for closing the hospital it has operated in Ravenswood since 2003 in a public hearing before state health officials at the Sulzer Library last week.
CINN announced plans in August to join forces with the NorthShore University Health System...
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Jean Hill is offering a tour of Chicago you will not likely find listed in any travel guide.
On August 17 and 24 from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Hill’s organization, Imagine Englewood if, will be hosting a tour of Englewood as a way of developing future community outreach programs.
Hill said she sees Englewood as...
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Editor’s note: This story is Part Three in a three-part series on lead poisoning in Chicago. Read Part One and Part Two. Also, see the results for playgounds tested for lead.
Story By Matthew Hendrickson
March 19, 2009 – Children throughout Chicago suffer lead poisoning, but poor African-American kids are disproportionately affected, city data show.
Chicago’s Englewood,...
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Editor’s note: This is Part Two in a three-part series on led poisoning in Chicago. Read Part One and Part Three. Also, see the results for playgounds tested for lead.
Story By Matthew Hendrickson
March 17, 2009 – Chicago children continue to be harmed by lead poisoning because of several glaring bureaucratic missteps — from kids...
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Editor’s note: This is Part One in a three-part series examining lead poisoning in Chicago. Read Part Two and Part Three. Also, see the results for playgounds tested for lead.
By Matthew Hendrickson
March 13, 2009 – Lead poisoning in Chicago children is a major health concern, but the city’s day-to-day battle against the problem has...
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