Englewood
2 months ago | Peter Sachs
Hundreds of e-mails show how mistakes added to Kennedy-King College's costs. But officials refuse to release an internal audit that could explain the project's overruns.
4 months ago | Peter Sachs
Neighborhood activists have been working to eliminate food deserts and provide South Side residents with access to fresh food and produce.
4 months ago | Samantha Liss
While nationwide, violence in relationships is declining among teenagers, the issue is getting added attention since the popular singer Rihanna was allegedly abused by her boyfriend. Many teens in Chicago say they know someone who has been abused in a relationship.
5 months ago | Rashanah Baldwin
The district is set to spend up to $625,000 for engineering work before demolition can begin. But it still doesn't have the money to pay the expected $10.4 million teardown cost.
6 months ago | Peter Sachs
Some adults are signing up for classes to get in shape or pick up a new hobby. Others are looking to change jobs. Bucking a national trend, continuing education enrollment is up 24 percent at the City Colleges.
9 months ago | Peter Sachs
The Chicago Housing Authority plans will bring new, green apartments in the Englewood and Pilsen neighborhoods where residents are struggling to find decent places to live.
11 months ago | Megan Cottrell
Some felt forced into getting the debit cards, say student leaders. And the high fees attached to the cards weren’t made clear to everyone.
1 year ago | Peter Sachs
The city colleges' Board of Trustees voted unanimously to spend up to $102,000 to have the Johnson Research Group draw up plans for a new tax increment financing district.
1 year ago | Peter Sachs
Footlockers full of comforters, lamps and toiletries help low-income students get a lock on college life. The program at Robeson High School is so successful, CPS officials want to expand it to other campuses.
1 year ago | Paul D. Bowker
Students at Chicago's Washburne Culinary Institute are slicing, dicing and cooking up a taste by taste tour of some of the city's best restaurants for the Taste of Chicago, which opens today.
1 year ago | Ivy R. Green
1 year ago | Geoff Dougherty
1 year ago | Geoff Dougherty
1 year ago | Geoff Dougherty
One person with a fractured hip was taken to Advocate Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn. Another female was transported to St. Bernard Hospital where she was treated for a gunshot wound to the hand.
1 year ago | Steven Chaitman
