Women and members of an organization against violence in inner-city neighborhoods gathered Tuesday to request a plan of action from Gov. Pat Quinn and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The plan of action requested by the Women’s Council on Community Intercession included full funding for the Ceasefire program, a campaign that focuses its campaign to stop...
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View the story “NATO Summit: Protesters Rally Outside Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Home” on Storify   A man stood under the shaded part of a tree, trembling as he held onto what he would later explain as a knight stick. He was covered in the shawls Jews wear for prayer and he slowly hobbled...
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With the end of the Iraq war and the whining down of the war in Afghanistan, veterans returning home will be faced with a long road of difficulties. Veterans have proved themselves in a world where stress, danger and life-and-death decisions were routine. They will now have a harder time back home navigating a...
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Reporters from CCCNATO livestreamed Morello’s appearance in the Daley Plaza around 12:30 p.m. today, and we captured a short clip in case you missed the livestream:
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Monday helped open The 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at the University of Illinois at Chicago Forum.   “It is my hope that over the next three days we can see what character and courage can do to make a difference,” Emanuel told the audience and others watching...
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CPS and CTU are battling over contracts, parents are battling  turnarounds, phase-outs and closures, and legislators are pushing for a moratorium to halt all school actions, but in just a few months, more than 400,000 children in the Chicagoland area will be boarding school buses to start the school year. 7,500 of those children will be on a bus to a...
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants Chicago to be the next cultural hot spot. The city has decided to update the cultural plan created 26 years ago during Mayor Harold Washington’s administration. “We want residents and community leaders to help shape a plan that will guide the City’s cultural growth and to reinforce Chicago as a...
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Judy Lihota, president of the Calumet Ecological Park Association, has been fighting for more than a decade to preserve the natural environment in the Calumet region of Chicago on the South East Side. In 1990, former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley wanted to bulldoze her house to build an airport. She lives in Hegewisch, the...
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SPRINGFIELD – This will be the last year students in Illinois enjoy a short day on the first and last day of the school year, if a state senator gets his way. State Sen. David Luechtefeld (R- Okawville) is hoping to pass SB 2850, which mandates that the first and last day of school...
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