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Hundreds of case workers, career coaches and housing specialists at two prominent nonprofits serving recently incarcerated people announced they plan to unionize on Friday morning, May Day, looking to join the ranks of scores of workers in the education and social services sector who’ve organized in
This story was originally published by Borderless Magazine. Sign up for its newsletter to learn the latest about Chicago’s immigrant communities. CHICAGO — After Sahida Martinez asked a family why they hadn’t taken a father with diabetes to the hospital when something was wrong with his toe, they sa
An NYPD van in New York City on Feb. 15, 2023 Authorities say the teen was attacked about a mile from home during a fight in Soundview this week. [ more › ]
Because the MTA said UPS nearly doubled Amazon's violations last year, here are your early links: Broadway in Brooklyn has a lot of potholes, pre-war apartments have janky doorbells, Jersey City deer hunt and more. [ more › ]
LINCOLN PARK — Throughout his years as a community organizer in Lincoln Park, small, everyday moments often revealed Allan Mellis’ instinct to get involved and make things better. One of those moments started when he discovered the local library didn’t have any books about spiders. “Our son had to d
DOWNTOWN — Republican candidates will appear first on Chicago ballots for the 2026 midterms, a decision decided by a Thursday lottery — which attracted Libertarians with fishy feelings about the Democrats’ prior winning streak. Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon, a Democrat, drew cards representi
CHICAGO — Lauren Hightower thought she was getting pranked when her Englewood Girl Scouts troop received an invitation to attend the Doc10 Film Festival. The invitation came in March, just days after the troop had surpassed its goal — by thousands — to sell enough cookie packages to stay activ
On September 29, a newish music festival called Slide Away announced its first Chicago event, to be held at the Aragon Ballroom in late May. Champaign space-rock band Hum, whose highest-charting Billboard single came out more than 30 years ago, will headline. The other midwestern projects on the bil
GARFIELD PARK — Chicago families have a new play area to add to the weekend rotation — one with climbing equipment, interactive spaces and plenty of greenery. The renovated Elizabeth Morse Genius Children’s Garden at the Garfield Park Conservatory & Gardens, 300 N. Central Park Ave., held a priv
WOODLAWN — Tickets to the Obama Presidential Center go on sale to the public next week, ahead of the center’s long-awaited opening on Juneteenth. Tickets to the Obama Center, 6001 S. Stony Island Ave., go on sale Thursday, according to the Obama Foundation. General-admission tickets include ac
File photo of a residential street in Brooklyn. Here are the neighborhoods where the quick resales are happening the most. [ more › ]
New Jersey Republican Tom Kean Jr. Kean's office has only said he's dealing with a brief "personal health matter," and did not say when he'll be back. [ more › ]
Mayor John Whitmire’s administration missed a deadline set by the city council last year, but the item is on the agenda for the next meeting on May 6.
They want to curb your dog. The New York City Council on Thursday introduced a package of bills aimed at helping the scourge of dog poop that intensified during weeks of feces-strewn snow piles this winter. The four bills, which will have hearings in the coming weeks, focused on both outreach and ot
This article was originally published by Healthbeat, a nonprofit newsroom covering public health published by Civic News Company and KFF Health News. The New York City Council on Thursday passed a package of bills seeking to do more to educate parents about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines a
EDGEWATER — Funeral services for John Bartholomew, the 38-year-old Chicago Police Officer who was killed in a shooting at Swedish Hospital on Saturday, will be held next week in Edgewater. A visitation for Bartholomew will be held from 2-8 p.m. May 7 at St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Church,
Two weeks ago, a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot with a handgun on a Queens playground during a water gun fight. This Monday, another 15-year-old boy was shot multiple times on the A train. On Thursday, groups that work to curb teen gun violence gathered at a forum in Brooklyn to highlight th
May Day was born out of the fight for an eight-hour workday in Chicago. Over the preceding decade, an international movement had grown to regulate the length of a working day, which could often run around 16 hours.  Joining the fight, the American Federation of Labor set May 1, 1886, as the dat
Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar The ruling means Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar will appear on the ballot in a Democratic primary against DSA-backed challenger David Orkin. [ more › ]
In a statement, a Harris County Pollution Control Services (PCS) spokesperson said, “PCS conducted air monitoring throughout the incident area. No airborne contaminants were detected.”
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