Parents of Whittier Elementary School (1900 w. 23rd St, Chicago) students and members of the…
Category: Politics is Local
Money No Longer a Motivator for CPS Students
A controversial program that paid over $2 million to students for good grades has been quietly scrapped due to…
Potential Closing of Ravenswood Hospital Angers Local Officials
By Lorraine Swanson, Editor, Lake Effect News The Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch Medical Group…
To Engage or Not: Dialogue on Iran and the Peace Movement
Hear Robert Naiman, national coordinator of Just Foreign Policy, in a dialogue with Kaveh Ehsani, editorial committee…
Preservationists, Neighbors “Sickened” by City’s Removal of Trees, Landscaping at Michael Reese Hospital
Sharon K. Jackson was looking out her eighth floor window at the Prairie Shores apartments…
City Officials Discuss “Plan B” for Site of Planned Olympic Village
As they pick up the pieces of their dashed Olympic dreams, city officials this week…
Northwest Side Students Affected By Lack of Busing
Five weeks into the school year there is still no sign of a yellow school…
Parking and Puking: City Council Postpones Vote On Taxi Issues
An ordinance to allow taxi drivers to park overnight on side streets in a congested…