‘CollaBOOration’ prepares for another Hyde Park Halloween
Oct 11, 2024 · Currie leashed up his dog and walked him through the alley — "like Moses, the kids just dispersed," he recalled. Over the next decade, Hyde Park, which had long been a gathering place for South Side teens, saw Halloween weekend balloon in …
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4 days ago · Hundreds of neighborhood children and their families waited patiently in the chilly weather outside of Kenwood Academy on the Saturday before Christmas.
The climate tipping point | Opinion | hpherald.com
Dec 9, 2024 · Of course, climate migrants will not be limited to Florida and Arizona; much of the equatorial world may be looking north. What is certain is that Chicago and Illinois will be in com petition with the rest of the northern temperate zone to attract the best and the brightest of the millions of global climate refugees over the next generation -- a demographic phenomenon unlike anything since the ...
Photo: Augustana hosts vigil for gun violence victims
Dec 18, 2024 · Community members light candles in honor of gun violence victims during an annual vigil at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn Ave., on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024.
‘Fidelio’: Lyric updates Beethoven’s opera of courage, love and …
Sep 30, 2024 · The concept of director Matthew Ozawa, who became Lyric’s first ever chief artistic administration officer in 2022, is represented by a huge cube on a turntable.
Federal complaint accuses U. of C. of anti-Palestinian discrimination
Oct 7, 2024 · For the past year, hundreds of students and many faculty have engaged in a series of demonstrations and protests demanding that the university divest from weapons manufacturers arming Israel in its war on Gaza, which has killed at least 41,870 people as of press time, be more transparent with its investments and publicly acknowledge a genocide in Gaza.
2 years after fire, Harper Square Cooperative moves to return …
Nov 25, 2024 · Francine Baker has lived in limbo since January 2023, when a deadly fire broke out in the Harper Square Cooperative, 4850 S. Lake Park Ave., her residence of almost 30 years.She is one of more than 100 co-op residents displaced by the fire who have not been able to return to their homes in almost two years.
Bill to phase out subminimum wage for disabled workers clears …
Nov 21, 2024 · House Bill 793, if signed by the governor, would prohibit businesses and other residential facilities in Illinois from claiming an exemption allowing them to pay workers with disabilities less than minimum wage.. The exemption is known as a 14(c) certificate, named after the section of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 permitting lower wages.
Kenwood football loses city championship | Evening Digest
Nov 25, 2024 · Kenwood Academy’s 2024 football season came to an end this weekend after a 24-8 city championship loss to Whitney Young. The 12-1 Dolphins scored the first touchdown of the game late in the first quarter, securing a lead they’d carry through the came.
City to close Lake Shore Hotel migrant shelter next month
Sep 10, 2024 · The closure of the shelter at 4900B S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive comes a little more than a year after the city first announced plans to convert the hotel into a refuge.