UChicago’s Yerkes Observatory and partners are engaging with blind and visually impaired students to remove barriers to STEM studies. CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 2, 2017 By: Greg Borzo Today’s astronomers don’t really look at stars or galaxies so much as images produced from data generated by light. If that same data were used[Read More…]
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Roosevelt University Announces Best Student Essays for 2017
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 2, 2017. A new online journal project highlighting best essays by Roosevelt University undergraduates for 2017 features the work of two sociology students and a music major. Jazzy Celindro, a junior sociology major from Hoffman Estates, Illinois, writes about coming to understand the importance of personal activism during a[Read More…]
Duckworth to Trump: Selective Service Director Makes Life & Death Decisions for Our Children, Appointment Shouldn’t Be Given to Unqualified Political Patrons
WASHINGTON, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–May 2, 2017. Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) wrote to President Trump today expressing concern that patronage played a role in his recent appointment of Mr. Donald Benton to be the Director of the Selective Service System. Duckworth highlighted Mr. Benton’s lack of qualifications for[Read More…]
Senators Duckworth, Durbin Announce More Than $2.4 Million For Head Start Programs In Central And Southern Illinois
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–May 2, 2017. U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children and Families has awarded a total of $2,477,422 to support Head Start and Early Head Start programs at Decatur-Macon County Opportunities Corporation[Read More…]
‘Vegging Out Pot-Luck Dinner’ at the Unitarian Universalist Community Church on May 15
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—May 2, 2017. The Unitarian Universalist Community Church (UUCC) will host a ‘Vegging Out Vegan Pot-Luck Dinner’ on Monday, May 15, at 6 p.m. UUCC is located at 70 Sycamore Drive in Park Forest. Vegging Out is a South Suburban community initiative in support of a whole-food, plant-based[Read More…]
Illinois Coalition of Local Governments Salutes Rep. DeLuca on Local Government Finance Control
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—May 1, 2017. Local governments around Illinois are thanking Rep. Anthony DeLuca today for helping advance a plan aimed at keeping critical revenue and budget decisions local. DeLuca is chairman of the House Cities and Villages Committee, which today held a joint legislative hearing in Chicago with the House Revenue[Read More…]
DeLuca Passes Legislation Out of the House to Bring New Jobs and Development to Park Forest
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – (ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2017. State Rep. Anthony DeLuca, D-Chicago Heights, passed legislation in the house last week which will allow for the redevelopment of the former Blue Ridge Farms Building on North Street in Park Forest. “House Bill 159 will authorize the necessary incentives for the redevelopment of[Read More…]
Park Forest Farmers’ Market Opens on Saturday, May 6
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—May 1, 2017. The Park Forest Farmers’ Market will open on Saturday, May 6 and every Saturday thereafter through October 28 from 7 a.m. to noon. The Market is located on the corner of Lakewood Boulevard & Cunningham Drive in DownTown Park Forest. Since 1974, the Park Forest[Read More…]
Prairie State College Christopher Art Gallery Presenting 2017 Graduate Exhibition
CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2017. Works of art from eight graduating Prairie State College (PSC) students is on display through Thursday, May 18, in the Christopher Art Gallery, located on the PSC main campus at 202 S. Halsted St. in Chicago Heights. A reception with the artists is scheduled from 11[Read More…]
Monday, May 1st: International Workers Day; Chicago May Day March at 1 PM, Lake and Ashland
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—May 1, 2017. Chicago Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is pleased to endorse International Workers’ Day demonstrations across the City of Chicago on Monday, May 1st. Workers and citizens in the United States are fed up with a system that favors the top 1%. As a result, support for socialist[Read More…]
