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Local Student’s Green Life Gets Her to Sundance
Brittany Frandsen, a 20-year-old film student at Columbia College Chicago, is on her way to…
Creating a New Path: A North Lawndale Mentoring Program Helps Save Youth of Incarcerated Parents
Every morning, 16-year-old Justice McKinnley wakes up to the harsh reality that her father is…
Residents Rally to Save Lathrop Homes
Residents of the Lathrop Homes public housing project ramped up their campaign to save the…
Activists Trying to Build Support Now: Same-Sex Marriage Law to be Debated in Illinois this Spring?
While a new same-sex marriage law waits to be heard in the state Senate, Chicagoans…
Far North Side Residents Uneasy as Violent Crimes Increase in Their Neighborhoods
Two years ago, Marilou Kessler was holding a dinner party at her East Rogers Park…
Lakeview Residents Say Efforts to “Take Back the Streets” Are Working
Over 100 Lakeview residents — fed up with crime on their turf — have united…
Bringing Business Back to Cottage Grove
By Deborah Alexander, LISC Chicago’s New Communities Program Adolph Parker opened his furniture store on…