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In response to the number of gay teen suicides across the United States, efforts like the “It Gets Better Project” have sprung up online. Locally there are several resources available to young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered (LGBT) Chicagoans. A minor who lives on Chicago’s North Side and decides to come out can find support...
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The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council (BYNC,) 1751 W. 47th St., is one of the oldest nonprofit community organizations in the United States. The council serves a great area of Chicago’s South Side and neighborhoods within the community. Residents of these communities experience high unemployment, juvenile delinquency, poor housing and education problems. The...
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Despite heartfelt pleas from students, parents and faculty, Phillips High School, located on Chicago’s South Side, will be closed. The school, after a full turnaround, will reopen next school year with a new principal and staff. Phillips, located at at 244 E. Pershing Road, has been placed in the care of the Academy of Urban...
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Local college and university representatives joined together recently at the Green Town Conference hosted by Columbia College Chicago to discuss making school campuses more sustainable. The session, called “Greening the Campus: How Educational Institutions Combat Climate Change,” served as a forum for local colleges to compare notes and brainstorm new ideas. Campuses represented at...
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Hours before the Cook County Board of Commissioners rejected a partial rollback of a controversial sales tax increase, concerned citizens stood outside the crowded meeting room, frustrated they couldn’t see first hand what was happening inside. More than two dozen people waited in line in the county building, some for as long as two...
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Gov. Quinn has used his amendatory veto on legislation to establish school facilities planning guidelines for CPS. The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Cynthia Soto is vowing to override that veto. The bill, known as H.B. 363, passed the House and Senate unanimously this spring. “I was shocked and appalled” by the veto, Soto said....
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The sudden news that CPS plans to relocate a politically-connected charter school to the building of a recently-closed neighborhood school in Pilsen has once again raised concerns over lack of accountability for school facilities decisions — and over charter schools getting resources that are denied to neighborhood schools. The Pilsen Alliance, which works with...
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By Christoper Pratt of The Urban Coaster A dose of property-owner-pooled money will allow two artists and 75 youth to leave a long-lasting imprint on the Glenwood Avenue Arts District. For six weeks this summer, Dustin Harris and Lea Pinsky, teamed up with youth from the Howard Area Community Center to paint a 330-foot...
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By Michael Robinson The Chicago Plan Commission has given a thumbs up to a new South Loop dormitory that could house 1,200 students. If the plan receives approval from City Council, the 37-story dorm at the corner of East Van Buren Street and South Wasbash Avenue could be finished by 2012. Despite the Plan...
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July 22, 2009 – Students and teachers in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood who are tired of overcrowded classrooms will get some relief this fall when a new school opens. The Chicago Plan Commission has approved the zoning for Brighton Park Elementary II – a three-story school to be built in the Brighton Park Industrial...
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