When trying to understand how a young college freshman received a correspondence with a major magazine, you’d have to look at the recipient of this lofty honor. It’s not every day that a student, not even finished with her first college semester, is featured in a nationally published magazine. However, for college freshman Bria Cross, […]
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Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel on Thursday presented a list of ethics reforms he will bring to Chicago if elected mayor. Standing alongside him as he talked about cleaning up the city’s image was David Hoffman — the corruption-fighting inspector general who often embarrassed Mayor Richard Daley by calling for new ethics rules. Emanuel said he […]
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Radio station WCRX will bring the 8th Annual “Holly Jolly Trolley” Food Drive to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository to town on Thursday, December 9th from 8:00am until 5:00pm. The annual broadcast of the WCRX “Holly Jolly Trolley” Food Drive aims to increase awareness of the hunger problem in the community and raise money […]
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Scrapbook Viewing and Workshop Dan Rybicky has added a photo to the pool: We’ll be opening up Peter’s scrapbooks today, Saturday, December 4th, at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. He’ll be there with us, and I’m excited to hear how he talks people through his books. This event, which is co-sponsored by […]
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When 33-year-old Che “Rhymefest” Smith walks the streets of his Washington Park neighborhood, people recognize him. They call out, “Rhymefest you live in this neighborhood?” and “Oh snap, you just walking around here like you not famous,” and “You famous to us, you on TV!” For all the warm welcomes, Smith said recently in a […]
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