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Citywide Collaboration to Provide Summer Learning Opportunities for Chicago Youth Wherever They Are, Whatever They Want to Do and Be

Mobile maker labs will bring computers and computer programming to digital deserts. CHICAGO, IL–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2016 – Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today the extensive menu of interest-based activities that are available to young Chicagoans this summer. Collaborating for the third year under the banner of Chicago City of Learning more[Read More…]

Park Forest – Chicago Heights School District 163 Announces Kindergarten, 6th Grade Registration

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2016.  Park Forest – Chicago Heights School District 163 has announced registration for kindergarten and 6th grade returning students for the 2017-17 school year. Details are as follows: What: Kindergarten & 6th Grade Returning Student Walk-In Registration Where: 21st Century Media Center When: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and[Read More…]

Park Forest Recognizes Scholarship Recipients

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2016.  Park Forest congratulates the 2016 Village of Park Forest and Park Forest Youth Commission Scholarship recipients who were recognized last week at the Park Forest Board of Trustees meeting: • Nia Oke-Famakinde | recipient of the Village of Park Forest Scholarship | Southern Illinois University[Read More…]

Artists Focus on Social, Spatial Conditions of Environment in University of Chicago’s New Exhibit

From left: Artists Greg Bray, Aquil Charlton and Nazafarin Lotfi. Courtesy of: Logan Center Exhibitions CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2016.  A new UChicago exhibition showcases the work of three Chicago-based artists and their shared interest in the social and spatial conditions of their surroundings.Resonant Objects, on view from July 8 to Aug. 28[Read More…]

Open Auditions at South Suburban College

SOUTH HOLLAND, IL –(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2016.  The PAC Rats Theatre Company of South Suburban College will hold open auditions for Michael Parker’s American farce, The Amorous Ambassador. The auditions will take place on July 13 and 14, beginning at 7:00 p.m. Readings will be held in the Kindig Performing Arts[Read More…]

Teenage Girl Takes Street to Ask Gutierrez to Be Champion for Father in Sanctuary, Call for Moratorium on Deportations

Chicagoans Block Roads Asking Representative to Bring Moratorium Demand to Clinton, DNC; Civil Disobedience happening at 3240 W. Fullerton Ave. Outside Congressman’s Office Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2016.  13 year old Maria is leading a group of Chicagoans in a civil disobedience outside the Northwest side office of Representative Luis Gutierrez calling[Read More…]

Congressman Rush, Mayor Emanuel and Community Partners Launch Collaborative Neighborhood Development Program for Greater Chatham

Greater Chatham Initiative Designed to Strengthen Four Neighborhoods and Set Them on Upward Path in the 21st Century Economy CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)–June 30, 2016.  U.S. Representative Bobby Rush, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, community leaders, and partners from the private and public sectors yesterday launched the Greater Chatham Initiative (GCI). The first-of-its-kind collaborative[Read More…]

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