HB 5417 would require that almost all prisoners be allowed out of their cells four hours per day SPRINGFIELD, IL –(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2016 — On Wednesday, April 20 at 8:30 AM, the Illinois House Restorative Justice Committee will hold a hearing regarding HB 5417, the Isolated Confinement Restriction Act, which would[Read More…]
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Fall 2016 Registration Open at Prairie State College
CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2016. Registration for fall 2016 is open at Prairie State College (PSC). Priority registration for current students began Monday, April 18. Open registration for all students begins Monday, April 25. Credit courses begin Monday, Aug. 22. Non-credit courses include a variety of single-day and multiple-session offerings that[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel Announces Renovation And Modernization Of Whitney M. Young, Jr. Library
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2016. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Library Commissioner Brian Bannon today joined Alderman Roderick Sawyer (6th) to announce the complete renovation and modernization of the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Library, 7901 S. King Drive. The nearly $12 million investment will be managed by the Public Building Commission[Read More…]
IL House Speaker Madigan: Constitutional Amendment will Help Strengthen State Support for Education
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. –(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2016. Speaker of the Illinois House Michael J. Madigan on Monday issued the following statement regarding a constitutional amendment to strengthen education throughout Illinois: “Every student in Illinois deserves an excellent education. By helping our schools deliver a world-class education to our children, we are helping[Read More…]
Father of 5 Asks for Sanctuary in Chicago Southside Church On Day Supreme Court Hears DAPA
Inability to Find a Ten Year Old Documents Puts Family in Jeopardy Chicago, IL –(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2016. Jose Juan Federico Moreno, a father of 5 United States citizen children, announced today that he will be seeking sanctuary from deportation in University Church on Chicago’s South Side, on the same[Read More…]
More Than 500 Young Adults Attend Rep. Kelly’s Youth Job and Resource Expo
MATTESON–(ENEWSPF)–April 18, 2016. More than 500 young people from the South Suburbs and Chicago attended Congresswoman Robin Kelly’s annual Youth Job and Resource Expo on Saturday at Thornwood Township High School in Harvey. “The job fair brought out hundreds of enthusiastic young people who were eager to find summer work,”[Read More…]
Higher Education Coalition to Make Funding Push with Springfield Rally on April 20
Group Unites to Urge Lawmakers, Governor to Solve Months-Long Funding Stalemate SPRINGFIELD –(ENEWSPF)—April 18, 2016. Legislators and the governor need to recognize the serious consequences 10 months without state funding is causing for Illinois colleges and universities and end the stalemate now, a higher ed coalition will call for at[Read More…]
In and Around Park Forest Week of April 17, 2016
Tickets are now on sale for Union Street Gallery’s 3rd Annual Derby Day Social. Source: http://www.unionstreetgallery.org Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—April 17, 2016. Tickets are now on sale for Union Street Gallery’s 3rd Annual Derby Day Social. Come watch the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 7 at the Olympia Fields Country Club[Read More…]
Award-winning Author for Immigrants’ Fights to Give Freeman Lecture on April 25 at Roosevelt University
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2016. Margaret Regan, an award-winning journalist and author whose life’s work has been to raise awareness and make change to draconian U.S. immigration practices, will deliver a lecture on the horrors that growing numbers of immigrants and their families face at 12:30 p.m. Monday, April 25 in Roosevelt’s[Read More…]
Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute to be Player in Cook County’s First Restorative Justice Court
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2016. Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation is celebrating a decision by the Cook County Circuit Court to create the county’s first Restorative Justice Community Court in Chicago. An advocate for community solutions, justice reform and a leader in moving restorative justice forward in the[Read More…]
