Long-awaited planning process for Lathrop Homes begins

Developers address Lathrop residents at kick-off meeting

11/18/2011

Representatives from the Chicago Housing Authority and the team selected to redevelop the Julia C. Lathrop Homes met with residents and neighbors in Hamlin Park Wednesday night to share their preliminary vision for the project.
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Brizard prepping longer school day model for expansion in Chicago

Chicago schools chief wants more gym, end to homeroom

11/16/2011

Chicago Public Schools Chief Jean-Claude Brizard and Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis seem to have found some common ground in CPS's extended school day push. Brizard and Lewis were at odds over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's accelerated push to tack on an extra 90 minutes to the school day for elementary school students.
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Top cop defends Chicago police consolidations

Police Superintendent McCarthy says more than just money motivating change

11/16/2011

Chicago Police Department Supt. Garry McCarthy met with residents from the 19th and 23rd districts earlier this week to hash out Mayor Rahm Emanuel's designs to merge the area’s police stations.
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Community praises revised plan for 410 E. Grand

Unaffordable housing

11/16/2011

Plans for a two-tower development at the corner of Grand Avenue and McClurg Court are pushing ahead after the project's developers dropped an unpopular design for affordable housing in favor of medical office space.
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Counting the days for charity

Heart of the 'hood

11/16/2011

There are so many ways - big and small - to give this holiday season. I like presents that give twice, or even more, like the Calendar Raffle for Kids, a fundraising effort from the sale of a 2012 calendar highlighting stories of kids whose lives have been forever changed by the Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) and Children’s Memorial Hospital.
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ATM muggers on police radar

11/16/2011

According to a Chicago Police Department news release, officers are on the lookout for individuals involved in three violent muggings at an ATM near the corner of Clark and Oak streets.
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A formula for success in Chicago's schools

Leadership, teachers, curriculum are the key ingredients, Brizard says

11/16/2011

There's a trifecta, Chicago Public Schools Chief Jean-Claude Brizard says, that leads to great schools - leadership, teachers and curriculum. Brizard spoke with Chicago Journal’s editorial board last Thursday about his vision for creating those great schools. Chief among them was establishing a longer school day, an initiative already begun in 13 CPS elementary schools.
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The big blue windmill on Burling Street

Freshly installed sculpture brings questions of safety, legality and aesthetics

11/09/2011

When John Novak put a large, windmill-like sculpture on the front lawn of his soon-to-be-completed home at the corner of Armitage Avenue and Burling Street, he thought of it as a gift to his future neighbors.
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Children's Memorial Hospital plan takes shape

Half of buildings to be preserved, half to get wrecking ball

11/09/2011

Details on the designs for the redevelopment of Children's Memorial Hospital's soon-to-be vacated Lincoln Park campus are beginning to emerge, according to a report from the head of a North Side neighborhood group.
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Fake grenade found at school

11/09/2011

On the morning of Nov. 7, a man was dropping off his son at Oscar Mayer Elementary School, 2250 N. Clifton Ave, when the student told his father that he observed what appeared to be a grenade by the rear entrance of the school.
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