When students at Edgebrook Elementary School need help learning English, they report to an unlikely…
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Chicago Waits: One Week Until Olympic Announcement, Site of Potential Olympic Village Set for Demolition
The countdown is on. In less than a week Chicagoans–and the rest of the world–will…
Northwest Side to Get Another Library As West Side Fights to Keep Branches Open
One of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Chicago will start work on a third public library…
DePaul Professor: Second Wave of Foreclosures Coming, Need for Affordable Housing Grows
By Dimitrios Kalantzis, Contributing Editor, Lake Effect News Last month the Institute for Housing Studies at…
Chicago’s Former Inspector General an Outsider in Senate Race
Chicago’s former Inspector General David Hoffman is one of the Democrats running for the U.S….
Mural Brings Students Together For Colorful Collaboration
By Ed Finkel, LISC Chicago’s New Communities Program The West Haven “Phoenix Rising” mural on…
Uptown Celebrates Winthrop Avenue Pioneers, Remembers the Segregation They Faced
By Lorraine Swanson, editor, Lake Effect News For the generations of McKeevers, Browns, Clarks, Jenkins,…
Proposed Air Pollution Ordinance Has Opposing Environmental Groups Fired Up
A proposed ordinance that would restrict open burns in forest preserves and city parks was…