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Guiding students and faculty at Kennedy-King College
Crain's Chicago Business Weekly Edition
Jan 21Job one will be raising graduation and retention rates. "We lose 50% of our students within the first six months," Ms. Ester says. Only 8% graduate. »
Who's Chicago's next star architect? John Ronan already shining brightly
Cityscapes
Jan 16From yesterday's print edition Chicago architect John Ronan, who just won a national design award for his elegant Poetry Foundation headquarters in the gentrified River North district, doesn't always work in such tony neighborhoods. In an interview on ... »
Poetry Foundation headquarters, Northbrook interior win national architecture awards
Cityscapes
Jan 09Two projects by Chicago architects are among the winners of the prestigious Institute Honor Awards announced this morning by the American Institute of Architects, while Frank Gehry's house in Santa Monica, Calif. was named the winner of the AIA's Twent... »
5 candidates running for Meeks' seat in Ill. Senate
WLS-TV Chicago Local News
Dec 09Reverend James Meeks is vacating his 15th District Senate seat. Five candidates, including a former NFL linebacker, want his job.Meeks' departure from the Illinois legislature opens the door for the candidates to campaign for the 15th District, which s... »
Police warn of armed robberies on South Side
WGN Radio
Nov 18Police issued a community alert today about a series of armed robberies in the Greater Grand Crossing and Park Manor neighborhoods on the city's South Side. »
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Obama pushes Chicago-style community college/employer partnerships
Lynn Sweet
Jan 25WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union speech, called for community colleges and businesses to form partnerships to train students with skills employers in their area explicitly need--programs that community colleges in Chicago h... »
Photos: Revisit the now-demolished $31 million Kennedy-King College
The Windy Citizen Full Feed
Jan 23KennedyKing.jpg var OutbrainPermaLink = 'http://www.windycitizen.com/chicago/2012/01/23/photos-revisit-now-demolished-31-million-kennedy-king-college'; var OB_raterMode =... (Like this story? Click the headline to vote it up on WindyCitizen.com) »
Chicago's Forgotten Role in the Lunch Counter Sit-In Movement
Grub Street Chicago
Jan 16The Jack Spratt Coffee House in 1941. In the 1960s Chicago restaurants such as Edna's, Army & Lou's and Argia B's BBQ played an important role in the civil rights movement by providing meeting places and material support for Martin Luther King's housin... »
Watching this YoChicago video on Englewood
The Sixth Ward
Jan 14[VIDEO] It was contained within a recent post entitled "Does Englewood have any hope of recovery?" Joe Zekas takes a drive along Normal Avenue starting from 63rd to about 57th Street. In that posting he notes the lack of impact of the new Kennedy-King ... »