From partly undoing cuts for branch library hours to extending the school day seven – not seven and a half – hours, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has scaled back major policy changes in response to public criticism. Thus far, this is not the case with the... »
News links: Huffington Post In protest of the closings of six Chicago mental health care clinics, advocates and community residents occupied the Woodlawn clinic on the city's South Side. Though 23 were arrested yesterday, protesters say they »
News links: Huffington Post In protest of the planned closings of six Chicago mental health care clinics, advocates and community residents occupied the Woodlawn clinic on the city's South Side. Though 23 were arrested yesterday, protesters s »
The occupation of the Woodlawn Mental Health clinic. »
March 6, Chicagoans across the city took to the streets to rally against the proposed closures of six of the city's twelve mental health clinics over the next month and a half. »
Alicia Ivy is fed up with the foreclosure blight dragging down her block in West Humboldt Park and was only too happy, on the sunny first Friday of 2012, to give Mayor Rahm Emanuel a walking tour of the lowlights. Activist Alicia Ivy is proud of her ni... »
The Mental Health Movement coalition says that the Chicago Department of Public Health wrote a letter to each patient of the city’s mental health services clinics this weekend outlining when the city will close six of its 12 mental health facilities an... »
There may be progress in efforts to stop the closure of the Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic on Chicago's South Side. A group of pastors said that after a meeting Thursday, the city has agreed to keep the doors open. A spokesperson for the mayor's office ... »
