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UIC plans $427 million expansion
Chicago Sun-Times
The University of Illinois at Chicago presented ambitious plans Thursday for a $427 million expansion of its medical center that would add UIC to the growing list of local hospitals seeking to replace or update
Davis may run if Stroger drops out
Tribune
Amid a growing sense among Democratic leaders that John Stroger will retire before November, U.S. Rep. Danny Davis said Thursday that he is interested in being the replacement candidate for Cook County Board president.
Program helps low-income workers become teachers
Medill News Service
Leticia Barrera taught at an elementary school in Mexico for five years before she got married and moved to Logan Square. Now, 14 years later, she's a year and a half away from resuming her old career in her new country.
Barrera, 38, is enrolled in school to become a teacher thanks to a program called Nueva Generacion. The project helps Logan Square residents with funding and support while they pursue teaching degrees. In return, they teach in low-income and other hard-to-staff schools in the neighborhood.
It's an opportunity Barrera doesn't take lightly.
"We are role models for the rest of the community," said Barrera, a mother of three. "We have a big responsibility."
Teardowns draw attention Kenilworth added to list of endangered historic communities
Tribune
Describing the Chicago area as the "epicenter of teardowns," the National Trust for Historic Preservation named affluent Kenilworth on Wednesday among the 11 most endangered historic places nationwide in its annual listing.The verdant North Shore community is largely residential, and many of its 830 homes were designed by well-known architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright and George Maher.
Neighbors take swipes at Evanston boy's beehive
Tribune
Gabriel Jacobs says he's fascinated by animals that aren't typically kept as pets, so when his mom brought home a book about bees, the Evanston teenager saw an opportunity for a new hobby: beekeeping.
Rules not followed on woman who fell
Tribune
The Chicago Police Department has guidelines for dealing with the mentally ill that would have provided medical treatment for a Los Angeles woman if officers had followed protocols and delivered her to a nearby hospital, said a mental health expert who helps oversee the department's training practices.
Thursday May 11
Son: Stroger's wife wants him to retire
Daily Southtown
Yonnie Stroger will have a lot to say about whether her husband remains on the Democratic ticket after suffering from a serious stroke — and she has her mind made up: She wants Cook County Board President John Stroger to retire.
DePaul softball team looking to lock up NCAA bid
Medill News Service
Last year they conquered Conference USA and earned a trip to the Women's College World Series.
This year, the DePaul softball team wants to do the same to the Big East by winning the conference tournament that begins Thursday.
But the fifth-seeded Blue Demons (32-21, 13-9 Big East) have a difficult road to travel in the single-elimination tournament.
"We would have liked to have gotten into the top half of the conference seeds, but we had some low points in the season that prevented us from doing that," DePaul coach Eugene Lenti said. "We played well at the end of the season and it carried us to a fifth seed, which I'm more than happy to have right now."
Drug sweep leads to dozens of arrests
Medill News Service
The U.S. Attorney's office on Tuesday announced charges against dozens of members of a West Side gang, alleging they ran a round-the-clock drug market that pulled in $15,000 a day.
More than 700 law enforcement personnel, including 13 SWAT teams from as far away as Detroit, participated in rounding up members of what is known as the New Breed street gang.
Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-charge of the FBI's Chicago office, called the daily $15,000 take a "conservative estimate." If accurate, the gang would have netted more than $5.4 million per year.
Call for routine HIV testing gets mixed response
Tribune
A government proposal to make testing for HIV as routine as testing for cholesterol is drawing criticism from some Chicago advocacy groups but winning praise from local physicians.
House defeats tax bill
Pioneer,
Chicago homeowners with spiraling home values might want to brace themselves for some property tax whiplash next year with the defeat last week of a bill to extend the 7 percent assessment cap for another three-year cycle.
Lane gets 'field of dreams'
Pioneer
A group of Lane Tech High School parents and teachers said they reached some "important agreements" regarding renovation of the WPA-era stadium Tuesday, May 2, less than two days before they were to march on the Board of Education headquarters.
Businesses could pass gas hikes to customers
Pioneer
Consumers will soon be feeling the impact of skyrocketing petrol prices in places other than the gas pump if they haven't been doing so already, according to local merchants and business association leaders like Scott Hanson of Kitchen Tune-Up, 2838 N. River Walk Drive.
Wednesday, May 10
Bill would give MWRD power to increase salaries
BY JOHN HUSTON, Pioneer
A bill, if signed by the governor, will allow the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago commissioners to set their own salaries. .
Businesses could pass gas hikes to customers
BY PATRICK BUTLER, Pioneer
Consumers will soon be feeling the impact of skyrocketing petrol prices in places other than the gas pump if they haven't been doing so already, according to local merchants and business association leaders like Scott Hanson of Kitchen Tune-Up, 2838 N. River Walk Drive.
Schreiber gets $30,000 grant
BY ANGELA CAPUTO, Pioneer
It's been more than a decade since neighbors first came together with a plan to expand Schreiber Park, a small park with the tiniest of field houses that sits just off of Devon and Clark on the border of Rogers Park and Edgewater.
One Neighborhood Prospers While Another Struggles
By MATTHEW BLAKE Medill News Service 2006, Chi Town Daily News
This is a tale of two Northwest Side communities. One is rallying in the face of a massive public works project and is continuing its economic development. The other is a multi-ethnic community that is fighting sharply declining neighborhood revenue and a lack of communication from the CTA.
Since the Rockwell Brown Line station closed in February for the CTA's Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project, the Lincoln Square community has actively worked with the CTA, city government and local businesses to successfully "prevent alarmingly negative impacts," said Christie Hahn, membership services director of the Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce.
UIC plans $427 million expansion
Chicago Sun-Times
The University of Illinois at Chicago presented ambitious plans Thursday for a $427 million expansion of its medical center that would add UIC to the growing list of local hospitals seeking to replace or update
Davis may run if Stroger drops out
Tribune
Amid a growing sense among Democratic leaders that John Stroger will retire before November, U.S. Rep. Danny Davis said Thursday that he is interested in being the replacement candidate for Cook County Board president.
Program helps low-income workers become teachers
Medill News Service
Leticia Barrera taught at an elementary school in Mexico for five years before she got married and moved to Logan Square. Now, 14 years later, she's a year and a half away from resuming her old career in her new country.
Barrera, 38, is enrolled in school to become a teacher thanks to a program called Nueva Generacion. The project helps Logan Square residents with funding and support while they pursue teaching degrees. In return, they teach in low-income and other hard-to-staff schools in the neighborhood.
It's an opportunity Barrera doesn't take lightly.
"We are role models for the rest of the community," said Barrera, a mother of three. "We have a big responsibility."
Teardowns draw attention Kenilworth added to list of endangered historic communities
Tribune
Describing the Chicago area as the "epicenter of teardowns," the National Trust for Historic Preservation named affluent Kenilworth on Wednesday among the 11 most endangered historic places nationwide in its annual listing.The verdant North Shore community is largely residential, and many of its 830 homes were designed by well-known architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright and George Maher.
Neighbors take swipes at Evanston boy's beehive
Tribune
Gabriel Jacobs says he's fascinated by animals that aren't typically kept as pets, so when his mom brought home a book about bees, the Evanston teenager saw an opportunity for a new hobby: beekeeping.
Rules not followed on woman who fell
Tribune
The Chicago Police Department has guidelines for dealing with the mentally ill that would have provided medical treatment for a Los Angeles woman if officers had followed protocols and delivered her to a nearby hospital, said a mental health expert who helps oversee the department's training practices.
Thursday May 11
Son: Stroger's wife wants him to retire
Daily Southtown
Yonnie Stroger will have a lot to say about whether her husband remains on the Democratic ticket after suffering from a serious stroke — and she has her mind made up: She wants Cook County Board President John Stroger to retire.
DePaul softball team looking to lock up NCAA bid
Medill News Service
Last year they conquered Conference USA and earned a trip to the Women's College World Series.
This year, the DePaul softball team wants to do the same to the Big East by winning the conference tournament that begins Thursday.
But the fifth-seeded Blue Demons (32-21, 13-9 Big East) have a difficult road to travel in the single-elimination tournament.
"We would have liked to have gotten into the top half of the conference seeds, but we had some low points in the season that prevented us from doing that," DePaul coach Eugene Lenti said. "We played well at the end of the season and it carried us to a fifth seed, which I'm more than happy to have right now."
Drug sweep leads to dozens of arrests
Medill News Service
The U.S. Attorney's office on Tuesday announced charges against dozens of members of a West Side gang, alleging they ran a round-the-clock drug market that pulled in $15,000 a day.
More than 700 law enforcement personnel, including 13 SWAT teams from as far away as Detroit, participated in rounding up members of what is known as the New Breed street gang.
Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-charge of the FBI's Chicago office, called the daily $15,000 take a "conservative estimate." If accurate, the gang would have netted more than $5.4 million per year.
Call for routine HIV testing gets mixed response
Tribune
A government proposal to make testing for HIV as routine as testing for cholesterol is drawing criticism from some Chicago advocacy groups but winning praise from local physicians.
House defeats tax bill
Pioneer,
Chicago homeowners with spiraling home values might want to brace themselves for some property tax whiplash next year with the defeat last week of a bill to extend the 7 percent assessment cap for another three-year cycle.
Lane gets 'field of dreams'
Pioneer
A group of Lane Tech High School parents and teachers said they reached some "important agreements" regarding renovation of the WPA-era stadium Tuesday, May 2, less than two days before they were to march on the Board of Education headquarters.
Businesses could pass gas hikes to customers
Pioneer
Consumers will soon be feeling the impact of skyrocketing petrol prices in places other than the gas pump if they haven't been doing so already, according to local merchants and business association leaders like Scott Hanson of Kitchen Tune-Up, 2838 N. River Walk Drive.
Wednesday, May 10
Bill would give MWRD power to increase salaries
BY JOHN HUSTON, Pioneer
A bill, if signed by the governor, will allow the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago commissioners to set their own salaries. .
Businesses could pass gas hikes to customers
BY PATRICK BUTLER, Pioneer
Consumers will soon be feeling the impact of skyrocketing petrol prices in places other than the gas pump if they haven't been doing so already, according to local merchants and business association leaders like Scott Hanson of Kitchen Tune-Up, 2838 N. River Walk Drive.
Schreiber gets $30,000 grant
BY ANGELA CAPUTO, Pioneer
It's been more than a decade since neighbors first came together with a plan to expand Schreiber Park, a small park with the tiniest of field houses that sits just off of Devon and Clark on the border of Rogers Park and Edgewater.
One Neighborhood Prospers While Another Struggles
By MATTHEW BLAKE Medill News Service 2006, Chi Town Daily News
This is a tale of two Northwest Side communities. One is rallying in the face of a massive public works project and is continuing its economic development. The other is a multi-ethnic community that is fighting sharply declining neighborhood revenue and a lack of communication from the CTA.
Since the Rockwell Brown Line station closed in February for the CTA's Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project, the Lincoln Square community has actively worked with the CTA, city government and local businesses to successfully "prevent alarmingly negative impacts," said Christie Hahn, membership services director of the Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce.
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