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UIC Researchers To Study Pastoral Counseling
The University of Illinois at Chicago will receive a three-year $85,000 grant from a philanthropic foundation to study the counseling experiences of pastors. Funding from The John Templeton Foundation will help university researchers examine the...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Financial Aid, Education
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Life's tough lessons
Tribune NewspapersWhen author Nami Mun was 13, she ran away from her family's Bronx apartment. She survived by holding down odd jobs and living wherever she could — on benches, in shelters or squatting in abandoned buildings. In her early 20s, she found steady...Tags: Human Interest, Authors, Back to School, University of Michigan, Arts and Culture
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$365,000 extra, and counting
When high-ranking University of Illinois administrator Craig Bazzani retired in 2002, the board of trustees praised him for his financial expertise, his efforts to modernize the university's operations and his knowledge of the state's political system....
Tags: Politics, James Robert Thompson, Career and Workplace, Chicago Tribune, Labor Legislation
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Remarkable Woman: Tiffany Jones
There is no word for what Tiffany Jones has done over her last four summers. Literally, no word. Since 2009, Jones, a social worker at Goodwin Elementary School in Cicero, has spent five to eight weeks of her summer vacations in Ethiopia, helping care...
Tags: Downers Grove, New Year's Day, Family, Ethiopia, HIV
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New laser technology available for removing cataracts
After learning she needed cataract surgery for her weakening eyesight, Merle Gordon decided to wait a few months until her ophthalmologist could offer laser surgery with more precision. She's glad she did. Gordon received a new type of laser surgery on...
Tags: Dominican Republic, Physical Conditions, Technology, Hospitals and Clinics, Cataracts
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Chicago teachers vote on new contract today
WGN NewsChicago Teachers Union members are voting today on the new contract that ended their strike last month. CTU president Karen Lewis is not giving any indication whether or not she has confidence that the contract will pass majority vote by the rank and...Tags: Politics, Chicago Teachers Strike, Career and Workplace, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Teachers Union
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Legislators generous with scholarships before start of ban
Even as the troubled legislative scholarship program was on its last legs, state lawmakers continued to make questionable choices and show possible political favoritism in awarding the free college tuition, a Tribune analysis found. The newspaper's...
Tags: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Voting, Republican Party, Politics, Illinois Governor
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Remarkable Woman: Susie Field
"You cannot do a kindness too soon," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "for you never know how soon it will be too late." It's a quote that looks lovely on a mug and even lovelier in practice. For the latter, one need look no further than Susie Field, an...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Columbia University, Colleges and Universities, Cancer
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CPS students at the Tribune's The Mash: "I want pop quizzes. I want school lunch on a plastic tray."
The walkout staged by Chicago Public Schools teachers this week had a ripple effect on thousands of children throughout the city. Among them are the high school students who work for The Mash, the Chicago Tribune’s teen publication and journalism...
Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Back to School, Chicago Teachers Strike, Career and Workplace, Chicago Tribune
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UIC student robbed at gunpoint
A University of Illinois at Chicago student was robbed at gunpoint yesterday off campus in the Near West Side community, according to the university. The woman was walking in the 500 block of South Oakley Boulevard about 9:18 p.m. Thursday when she...
Tags: Near West Side, Colleges and Universities, Criminals, Theft
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Find one-of-a-kind cultural items Chicago's museum stores
More years ago than I'd like to say, I moved into a charmless cinder block dormitory on the campus of a land-grant university about eight hours away from my suburban Chicago home. To assuage homesickness and spruce the place up a bit, I hung a print of...
Tags: Le Corbusier, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Culture
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Emanuel offers preview of Democratic National Convention speech
Clout StreetMayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday offered a preview of the theme of his speech at the Democratic National Convention next month: his insider’s view of the moves President Barack Obama made after taking office. “I'm going to testify to what I...Tags: Near West Side, Politics, Barack Obama, International Military Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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