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Get Out of Your Workout Rut
It’s 6 a.m. and the alarm clock sounds, ruining a perfect dream. Groggy eyed, you stumble into the bathroom. It’s the same old morning routine followed by the same old workout: run a mile and pump some iron, as you have every morning for the last 2 years with minimal results. If you’re sick of […]
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Carole Brown, chair of Chicago’s TIF Reform Task Force, said Monday that the city has approximately $100 million in surplus TIF money, which should be returned to the general fund. Brown said 20 to 30 percent of the city’s TIF funds, which total about $550 million, were surplus. Brown was appointed in May by Mayor […]
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If the Chicago Board of Education meeting Wednesday is any indicator, racial tensions in Chicago Public Schools are on the rise. At least six speakers brought up the issue of race and how it has affected them personally and the dynamics of education at their local schools. One speaker said the Illinois DREAM Act will […]
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Retired Chicago Public Schools janitor Christopher Swanson’s daughter is not a typical high school sophomore. Christine has occasional seizures and requires medication. Swanson is concerned not enough nurses are on staff to address his daughter’s medical needs at Steinmetz Academic Centre, the neighborhood high school Christine attends along with more than 2,000 students. A nurse […]
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The Chicago Department of Public Health would consolidate its 12 city mental health clinics into six sites, under Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed 2012 budget. The city is facing a $635 million shortfall in next year’s budget and Emanuel is proposing that staffing for the Department of Public Health be cut by $7.2 million dollars, […]
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It’s Halloween time! Or rather, pumpkin time. Nature has spread a natural orange glow across Illinois. Stores are full of various pumpkins. People buy them in abundance to decorate their drive ways, doorsteps, yards, porches, windowsills, living rooms, drawing rooms and kitchen counter-tops. They also take them to sit on their office tables and other […]
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Serage Rahima received a phone call this past weekend he would never forget. The voices on the other end were from his family in his native country of Libya, and they were overwhelmed with joy due to the recent death of Muammar Gadhafi, who for 42 years was a dictator of the North African country. […]
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