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Columbia Art Students On the Right Track

By Barbara Iverson
September 3, 2010

After eight weeks of planning and design, four Columbia College Chicago artists finished an art installation in one Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train car for the Art On Track event on Aug. 7. Linking a private home space with a public commuter...
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Learn to Organize for Your Community

By Chicagotalks
September 1, 2010
Learn to Organize for Your Community

Chicago is the home of Saul Alinsky—style community organizing. Now you can get that kind of training and turn around and move your neighborhood and community forward. The Community Renewal Society’s flagship three-day training identifies key organizing principles, how values influence those...
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Water Quality Rankings Affected by Frequent Testing

By Chicagotalks
August 31, 2010
Water Quality Rankings Affected by Frequent Testing

Image via Wikipedia The results are of water quality are in, and Minnesota ranked first for the Great Lakes states — and 12th overall. Illinois was last in the region and 28th overall. Five percent of Minnesota’s samples exceeded the federal standard compared...
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Hyatt Workers Boycott Could Affect One or More Chicago-Area Hyatt Properties

By Curtis Black of Community Media Workshop
August 25, 2010
Hyatt Workers Boycott Could Affect One or More Chicago-Area Hyatt Properties

A news report from Curtis Black’s Newstips Blog, Community Media Workshop Hyatt workers locked in tough contract negotiations – and hit by job cuts and reduced hours leading to chronic understaffing and increased injuries – will announce a boycott of one or...
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Columbia Art Students On the Right Track

By Barbara Iverson
September 3, 2010

After eight weeks of planning and design, four Columbia College Chicago artists finished an art installation in one Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train car...
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Bloomingdale Trail Receives a Makeover

By Chicagotalks
September 2, 2010

Image by Payton Chung via Flickr The  Chicago Public Art Group and Logan Square Neighborhood Association headed up a group of volunteers who helped...
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“Clean” Air and Water Show This Weekend in Chicago

By Chicagotalks
August 27, 2010

On Saturday there is going to be another Air and Water Show in Chicago, this one will not shock and awe its viewers with...
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Basketball Takes Over the Streets in North Lawndale

By Editor
August 23, 2010

A news report from Cristobal Martinez, LISC Chicago’s New Communities Program The Chicago Police Department’s 10th District police station on Ogden Avenue usually hosts...
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All Politics is Local

Learn to Organize for Your Community

Learn to Organize for Your Community

Chicago is the home of Saul Alinsky—style community organizing. Now you can get that kind of training and turn around and move your neighborhood and community forward. The Community Renewal Society’s flagship three-day training identifies key organizing principles, how values influence those principles and how you can become an effective organizer and leader. Civic...

FEMA Grants Available for West Side Residents, But Red Tape May Await

FEMA Grants Available for West Side Residents, But Red Tape May Await

A news report from Sarah Ostman, AustinTalks.org For Austin residents whose homes flooded in the July 23 storm, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is, President Barack Obama has declared Cook County a federal disaster area, opening the floodgates, so to speak, for clean-up dollars from Washington, D.C. The bad news is,...

Chicago Reporter Gets His ‘Way’

Chicago Reporter Gets His ‘Way’

Naming a stretch of Pulaski Road, “Honorary Casimir Pulaski Way” is redundant and pretty silly. Naming a stretch of Chicago pavement in honor of ace reporter Carlos Hernandez Gomez, 36, who died in last January is appropriate. In a city with “Vito Marzullo Way,” honest citizens deserve to have a street named after an...

Ravenswood Bank Taken Over by FDIC

Ravenswood Bank Taken Over by FDIC

A news report from Mike Fourcher, Center Square Journal Last night Ravenswood Bank, 2300 W. Lawrence Ave., was taken over by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and put into the receivership of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Ravenswood’s doors opened again this morning as branches of Northbrook Bank and Trust Company, a division...

Community Concerns

Now Open Till October, Lincoln Square Farmers Market Extends Season

A news report from Patty Wetli, Center Square Journal Good news for fans of...

Bloomingdale Trail Receives a Makeover

Image by Payton Chung via Flickr The  Chicago Public Art Group and Logan Square...

One West Side Group Provides Flood Clean-up, Jobs

A news report from Sarah Ostman, AustinTalks.org Rosemary Marsh was sure her home would...

Learn to Organize for Your Community

Chicago is the home of Saul Alinsky—style community organizing. Now you can get that...

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