Teens are making news in ChicagoTalks, owing to a couple of journalism-related efforts that combine news know-how, education and the voice of teenagers about problems they face. At Marquette School, located at 6550 S. Richmond St. in Chicago, they are kicking off a new curriculum focused on news literacy. In the loop, Columbia College Chicago’s Links...
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Chicago music fans will have three opportunities to experience live world music this week as Fra Fra Sound will perform in concert. Based in the Netherlands, Fra Fra Sound, the Suriname-Caribbean septet, plays music of the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States, Africa and Europe. Hear them on the northside at Old Town School...
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There are only two more performances of the unique gem of music theater. The venue is cool, and we parked on the street for $1.25. The musicians and singers and all of the other people involved are talented and sure of what they are doing. Don’t miss this “guerilla opera.” NO EXIT is a...
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YouTube – I Wonder What I Could Be. Columbia students who need financial aid are getting squeeed because the Monetary Award Program was slashed. Students who got money for Fall semester tuition stand to lose their aid for Spring semester. A group of Columbia College Chicago students produced this video in about 24 hours...
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A controversial program that paid over $2 million to students for good grades has been quietly scrapped due to lack of funding, said Michael Scott, president of the Chicago Board of Education. “The goal was to add additional donors as the Green for Grade$ program progressed over the years,” said Scott. “Unfortunately, due to the recent state of...
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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...
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Hear Robert Naiman, national coordinator of Just Foreign Policy, in a dialogue with Kaveh Ehsani, editorial committee member of Middle East Report and professor of international studies at DePaul University, on the critical issues at stake in Iran today. Friday October 16 at 7 p.m. School of the Art Institute of Chicago Columbus Auditorium 280 S. Columbus Dr....
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For many years Rogers Park has been known as one of Chicago’s most diverse neighborhoods, welcoming people from Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Though Rogers Park is widely loved for its diversity, the neighborhood faces a host of problems, including foreclosures, a lack of investment, high crime and also fears...
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Sharon K. Jackson was looking out her eighth floor window at the Prairie Shores apartments in Bronzeville when she noticed something different about the former Michael Reese Hospital site next door. “I couldn’t figure out what it was,” said Jackson. “All of the sudden it looked like a slum. Then I realized trees were...
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This is not your father or your mother’s opera. Get out of your comfort zone and give this form of multimedia entertainment a try: Chicago Opera Vanguard reimagines Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential play “No Exit” as an opera. For this modern morality play, director George Cederquist has gathered an impressive ensemble of singing actors, musicians and...
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