CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—March 31, 2014. Additional Energy Demand Reduction Trainings will be offered at Prairie State College (PSC), 202 S. Halsted, Chicago Heights. The training programs will be offered at no cost. Advance registration is required and seating is limited. Training Programs being offered are: The Path to Sustainable Change April[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 31, 2014.  Roosevelt University theatre alumna Amy Newbold is a co-star and the only Chicagoan cast in a principal role in the new futuristic film,  Divergent, which was shot in Chicago and which opened March 21 at theatres throughout the region. “It’s a crazy opportunity and one that I[Read More…]

Funding commitments from EquiTrust and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation will Expand Access to Math Tutoring Program that Helps Close the Achievement Gap between Black and White Students in Math by 60% CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 31, 2014. Mayor Emanuel today announced funding to expand the Match Education math-tutoring program to 1,000[Read More…]

Olympia Fields, IL-(ENEWSPF)- High School District 227 is introducint the three finalists for the position of superintendent to the public this week. Tne finalist will be introduced to the public in a forum over the next three days, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, April 1, 2, and 3. The following is[Read More…]

SOUTH HOLLAND, IL—(ENEWSPF)—March 28, 2014. The Art & Design Department of South Suburban College (SSC) is pleased to present a new exhibition titled “News That Stays News” in the Dorothea Thiel Gallery on SSC’s Main Campus in South Holland.  The art works–created separately by Burleigh Kronquist and Jenny Roberts–are on[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2014.  Roosevelt University professor Lawrence Howe has been selected by the Fulbright Scholars Program to teach American Studies during the coming academic year in Denmark. Howe, professor of English and chair of the Department of Literature and Languages in Roosevelt’s College of Arts and Sciences, will be Distinguished[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2014.  One of Chicago’s most celebrated music ensembles, the Lincoln Trio, will perform works for violin, cello and piano written by composition students at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 6 in the University’s seventh-floor Ganz Hall, 430 S. Michigan Ave.,[Read More…]

Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2014.  At a Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing yesterday on strengthening the federal student loan program for borrowers, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren questioned witnesses about the profits the government makes off the student loan program and the Department of Education’s lax[Read More…]

Says his Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights would give help to millions of borrowers right now WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2014.  U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today submitted a statement for a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on the federal student loan program and[Read More…]

Governor’s Budget Plan Raises Classroom Investment by $6 Billion Over Five Years—Largest in State History CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2014.  Governor Pat Quinn today visited Carl von Linné Elementary School in Chicago and discussed his fiscal year 2015 budget proposal and five-year blueprint to raise state investment in the classroom to its[Read More…]