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.
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Lawmakers Look to Teacher Training for Youth Suicide Prevention
Activists Trying to Build Support Now: Same-Sex Marriage Law to be Debated in Illinois this Spring?
While a new same-sex marriage law waits to be heard in the state Senate, Chicagoans and local activists remain divided on the issue of gay marriage.
The proposed legislation would allow gay couples to wed in Illinois. As the new bill waits in the legislature until next year’s session, opinions vary widely on the issue...
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“Blood Alley” Still a Problem in Uptown
Police and business owners in Uptown recently joined forces to develop a strategy to clean up a two-block stretch of puddles of urine, empty beer bottles and unsavory characters on Clifton Avenue, more commonly known as “Blood Alley.”
The focus of last week’s meeting at Harry S. Truman College was the ongoing problems of safety...
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Potential Closing of Ravenswood Hospital Angers Local Officials
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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