Top Five Mattress Stores in Chicago
Ever have those days when the last thing you want to do is get out of bed? Whether it’s because of a stressful work day ahead, a bone-deep fatigue caused by stress, or just no desire to face the world around you, your comfortable bed just looks too wonderful to leave. If only the […]
Chicago Housing Authority CEO Resigns for More Family Time
Following a number of closed meeting sessions dealing with “personnel-related matters,” Chicago Housing Authority officials Tuesday announced Charles Woodyard’s resignation as CEO following his two-year stint with the city agency. Having held board positions on other housing authority associations along the East Coast, Woodyard was appointed to the position September 2011, following the controversial resignation […]
Englewood Community Eager for the Hope Manor Two Project
The Englewood Community on the South Side of Chicago is buzzing over the new Hope Manor Two Project, scheduled to be completed in June 2014. The goal of the project is to help homeless veterans find stable and permanent living conditions. Much of the excitement now comes from one-time soldiers who now feel all their […]
Community Living Replacing Institutions for Developmentally Disabled, Lags Downstate
Close to 500 severely disabled Illinoisans are in danger of losing their homes because of last year’s budget cuts mandated by Gov. Pat Quinn. While the average American might not see how a state-run institution can be home, for close to 30,000 Americans, it is. As the state closes institutions one by one, a battle […]
Changing face of Pilsen
In the 1990s, Pilsen was known as a neighborhood not safe to walk through at night, highlighted by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority naming it a hot spot for gang violence in 1992. Now, just 20 years later, Pilsen is known as a trendy neighborhood, that residents say has been completely redefined by gentrification. […]
Developer to send proposal to East Village group
Three may be the charm for developer Chris Fifield, who is sending his third proposal for a Chicago Avenue building to the East Village Association and Ald. Proco Joe Moreno (1st) for review and approval this month. The plan will be sent to the East Village Association by the end of the month, said association president […]
Credit Union Replaces Southwest Side’s Second Federal
A California-based credit union that caters to female, low-income and minority communities announced Wednesday it is opening three new branches in Little Village, Cicero and Brighton Park. The announcement came just months after hundreds of families in Chicago’s Southwest side faced possible foreclosure when Second Federal Savings & Loan Association closed. Self-Help Federal Credit Union […]
