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Meeting on new city schools' plans turns boisterous
Tribune reporterHoping to learn more about new charter school proposals in Chicago, several hundred parents, teachers and activists crowded into a South Side community center this morning for a contentious, sometimes theatrical, meeting about education in the city. The...Tags: Curricula, Teaching and Learning, South Loop, Chicago Loop, Chicago Charter Schools
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CPS charter meeting: Long lines, superheroes
Tribune reporterThe drama got into full swing even before the Chicago Public Schools board meeting began this morning. Charter school supporters lined the four-block radius of CPS headquarters at 125 S. Clark St. as parents wearing superhero costumes--Superman and...Tags: Ron Huberman, Terry Mazany, Chicago Public Schools, Politics, Richard Day
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Neighborhood population drain
Chicago's central core grew increasingly vibrant during the past decade, as young professionals filled new condominiums in the Loop and surrounding neighborhoods, taking advantage of trendy restaurants and nightspots.
But vast swaths of the city didn't...Tags: Pilsen, Hispanic and Latino Americans, West Garfield Park, Texas, Politics
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Friday is Walk to Work Day
RedEyeForget April Fool's Day. Friday is Walk to Work Day, where Chicagoans, no joke, can ditch the CTA and Metra in favor of their own two feet. The event is championed by the Active Transportation Alliance, a Chicagoland biking advocacy group. It's supposed...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Human Interest, Near North Side, Metra, South Deering
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3 stabbed on Far South Side
Tribune reporterThree people suffered serioius injuries from stabbings in an incident in the Far South Side's West Pullman neighborhood this morning. Fire Department ambulances took two patients in serious-to-critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in...Tags: Roseland, Chicago Fire Department, Fires, Hospitals and Clinics, Health
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Boy, 12, shot on Far South Side
A 12-year-old boy was shot in the hand this evening in the city's West Pullman neighborhood, Chicago police said. The boy was wounded in the left hand while standing on the street at about 7:30 p.m. on the 11600 block of South Prairie Avenue, said police...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Health, West Pullman
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Austin, Hermosa each see two homicides
RedEyeAustin and Hermosa each saw two homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data shows. In Hermosa, a man and woman, both 57, were killed Sunday in an auto crash in the 4400 block of West Diversey Avenue, police said. The Cook...Tags: Roseland, South Chicago, Crimes, Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois), Avondale
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The stories of two Pullman porters
Readers' Representative JournalAnn M. Simmons wrote a moving article July 5 about Lee Wesley Gibson, who at 100 was believed to be the oldest living Pullman porter -- one of the uniformed railway men who served first-class passengers in a train’s luxurious...... -
Chicago's Clarence Darrow on the death penalty
Change of SubjectFamed Chicago attorney Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) will be honored Sunday, the anniversary of his death, at 10 a..m. at the Darrow Bridge in Jackson Park. A wreath will be tossed on the waters where his ashes were strewn and attendees...... -
Two more South Side Wal-Marts to open next year
Clout StPosted by John Byrne at 11:35 a.m.; last updated at 2:21 p.m. Wal-Mart will open two more stores on the South Side next year, city officials and the giant retailer announced today. A store with a grocery and pharmacy will...... -
'ON THE FRINGE' WINTER GUIDE: Your best bets for off-Loop theater in 2011
The Theater LoopNina Metz and Kerry Reid write the "ON THE FRINGE" column every Friday in the Tribune, reviewing shows from Chicago's off-Loop theater scene. This is their column looking ahead to the new year. Left, the upcoming Neo-Futurists production of "Laika...... -
Chicagoland literary events: April 30 - May 6
Saturday Nikki Giovanni will read her work as part of the Chicago Public Library's PoetryFest and the Poetry Foundation's Poetry Off the Shelf series at 2 p.m. in the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St.;...Tags: University of Chicago, Somerville, Harold Washington Library Center, Libraries, Arts and Culture
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