Chicago Heights, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Illinois Tollway, Illinois Community College Board (ICCB), Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), and the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (IHCC) announced plans to develop new programs and provide services to small businesses in the construction industry, including minority- and women-owned firms. The partnerships[Read More…]

University Park, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The Building Complex Language Project is offering free individual language therapy for complex sentence development as part of a clinical study. The program is designed for students between 10 and 14 years old who have a history of speech/language delay/impairment or learning disability, normal hearing, and no intellectual[Read More…]

University Park, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Governors State University is offering qualified undergraduate applicants the opportunity to get admitted to the university “on the spot” with a new program called Transfer Thursdays. Twice a month on selected Thursdays, the Office of Admissions and Student Recruitment will host instant admission opportunities. The first Transfer[Read More…]

Laura Kina discusses race perspective in the DePaul Art Minute. VIDEO CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 17, 2013.  How does art help tell the story of mixed race Asian Americans? Exhibit curator Laura Kina, associate professor of art, media and design at DePaul University, describes how this show helps to visualize the complexities of[Read More…]

University Park, IL—(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2013 – Governors State University begins its Dynamic Leadership Lecture Series with featured speaker Father Michael L. Pfleger on Monday, June 3, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., in Center for Performing Arts, on the GSU campus. His presentation, “Leading a Community: Advocating for the Disenfranchised,” is[Read More…]

Investment Goes Directly Towards Implementing CPS’ First Ever Arts Education Plan CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2013.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel was joined yesterday by internationally-renowned cellist and Chicago Symphony Orchestra Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma to announce that the City is committing $1 million towards implementing the first Arts Education[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2013.  The full article by Crain’s Chicago Business columnist Greg Hinz is published at:  http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130427/ISSUE05/304279980/what-is-chicago-planning-not-nearly-enough  Is good planning in Chicago as dead as Daniel Burnham? That’s the question effectively posed in a provocative new book by two veteran Chicago observers at Roosevelt University, D. Bradford Hunt and Jon[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2013.  Roosevelt University graduate student Natalie Krusemeier has decided that earning her Ph.D. in English can wait.  She is doing something now that has far more importance to her and others – teaching underprepared students in New Orleans. “I had an opportunity to go to New Orleans after[Read More…]

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and William Mason, general director emeritus of Lyric Opera Chicago, listen as soprano Patrice Michaels, performs a song during a centennial celebration for DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business, College of Law and School of Music held at the Chicago History Museum. Ginsburg and[Read More…]

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, IL—(ENEWSPF)—May 16, 2013. Recognizing the importance of education and teachers, State Representative Anthony DeLuca (D-Chicago Heights) last week congratulated local teacher, Linda Egnatz, for being awarded the prestigious Central States Teaching Foreign Language “Teacher of the Year” and being nominated for the Golden Apple Award. “It is a[Read More…]