SOUTH HOLLAND, IL—(ENEWSPF)—September 18, 2014. South Suburban College’s Business & Career Institute (BCI) will host their sixth annual Manufacturing Conference: Making the Model Work, on Friday, October 3, 2014, from 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the college’s Oak Forest Center. This unique event is a one-day conference featuring breakout[Read More…]
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Roosevelt University Student Appointed to Illinois State Board of Higher Education
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2014. Sean Anderson, a 22-year-old business management major at Roosevelt University, has been appointed as a student board member on the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE). After his first board meeting last month, Anderson, a native of Naperville, Ill., said his aim as a board member is[Read More…]
New Book Depicts Roosevelt University’s History
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 17, 2014. More than 200 vintage and distinctive photographs of Roosevelt University from its pioneering days to the present are featured in a new history book, appropriately titled Roosevelt University. Compiled and written by University Historian Lynn Weiner and Archivist Laura Mills, Roosevelt University is part of a series[Read More…]
DePaul University Earns Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award
DePaul University is a recipient of the 2014 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. Among DePaul’s Vision 2018 goals is to foster diversity and inclusion by strengthening campuswide diversity and building a vibrant university community. Helping in that commitment are college diversity and inclusion[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel To Host Water Quality Summit With Great Lakes Mayors
Mayor Emanuel and Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Cities Initiative will convene Great Lakes Mayors in Chicago on September 24 to discuss the protection, preservation of freshwater resources CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—September 17, 2014. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative today announced that they will be hosting[Read More…]
Coming to the GSU Center for Performing Arts – Neil Berg’s ‘101 Years of Broadway’
Features Fine Dazzling Broadway Stars — One Performance Only! University Park, IL—(ENEWSPF)—September 17, 2014. Following an enthusiastic audience response to hit Broadway revue, Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway, Berg now brings his new production, “101 Years of Broadway” to the Center for Performing Arts stage, a musical revue with[Read More…]
Thorn Creek Nature Center to Host Garlic Fest on October 4
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—September 17, 2014. On Saturday, October 4, from noon to 3 p.m., Thorn Creek Nature Center will hold Garlic Fest, an afternoon of family fun celebrating organically grown garlic with recipes, cooking, crafts, hikes, planting & growing demonstrations, garlic refreshments, music and garlic galore. Doors will open at[Read More…]
Hundreds of Law Enforcement, First Responders, Clergy, Businesses Support Same-Sex Couples in Texas
Episcopal Bishop, Harris and Dallas County Sheriffs among signatories in Friend-of-the-Court briefs before Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals New York—(ENEWSPF)—September 16, 2014. In several unique amicus briefs submitted today to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the 5th Circuit, scores of first responders, law enforcement, faith leaders and businesses urged the court[Read More…]
Conservatives Visit Nevada in Campaign to Remove Anti-Gay Language From GOP Platform
New York –(ENEWSPF)—September 16, 2014. Today, as part of its “Reform the Platform” campaign to remove anti-gay language from the 2016 GOP national platform, Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry is visiting Nevada to hold a series of meetings with state GOP officials and like-minded activists. “With Republican Governor[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Announces Major Investments in Illinois Justice System Programs
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2014. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced today that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has made a major investment in support of important crime prevention research and the enhancement of several justice system programs in Illinois. “Today’s funding represents an important investment in the Illinois justice[Read More…]
