Stories written by Barbara_IversonBarbara K. Iverson is co-founder, publisher, and web guru for Chicagotalks.org, a community and citizen news website. Iverson is a pioneer blogger, and journalism professor at Columbia College Chicago.
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Media Communications
Columbia College Chicago
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Though once the site of corporate oppression and violence against workers and their families, Chicago's Pullman neighborhood is shaping up to become the greatest place in the city to celebrate Labor Day in 2008. Pullman's monument in Graceland Cemetery The storm center of perhaps the most famous industrial conflict of
the 19th century was the charming […]
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Here is a challenge for your block club or neighborhood association. How walkable is your neighborhood? A new website, walkscore.com talks about the advantages of having a walkable neighborhood, and if you have car and have been buying gas lately, you probably don't need any further reasons, though there are several of them. You can […]
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We live in a world where there are so many chemicals and products, that some people have developed an allergy to the 21st century. That is an extreme example, and won’t be a problem for most of us, but how much do you know about the safety of the products you buy at the grocery […]
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July 17, 2008 — Chicago is the only city of its size not to have a public high school that concentrates on the arts, according to Jim Mabie, chairman of the Chicago High School for the Arts (CHSA) board, citing similar schools in Los Angeles, Orange County, Boston, Miami, Dallas, Houston and Denver. “New York […]
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July 10, 2008 – The Fair Use Remix Institute, a project of Open Youth Networks and, Chicago Filmmakers. FURI is the 2008 YouthLAB workshop, an annual summer institute in which youth learn to use participatory media tools of the new public networks for social change and media analysis. FURI runs from July 7-18th at Chicago […]
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In 1958 photographer Art Kane shot his iconic picture "A Great Day in Harlem" featuring jazz greats assembled on the stoop of a Harlem apartment building. Getting everyone together for the photo was so tricky that it is the subject of a documentary. On Saturday April 14th, 2007, Pulitzer-prize winning photographer John White and Columbia […]
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