Leads the Nation for the Third Year in a Row; Chicago is Only North American City in the Top 20 CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2015. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and World Business Chicago today announced that, for the third year in a row, the Chicago metropolitan area leads the nation in foreign direct[Read More…]
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Statement from Mayor Emanuel on Chicago Being Named a Host of America’s Cup World Series Racing in 2016
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2015. “I am proud to welcome the 2016 America’s Cup World Series to Chicago, an incredible event that will help us build on the record tourism numbers we continue to set. Over the course of 164 years the America’s Cup has brought together the world’s top sailors to[Read More…]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Sues World Law Group for Charging Illegal Fees and Making False Promises in Debt-Relief Scheme
Lawsuit Names Individuals Responsible for Bilking $67 million from 21,000 Consumers WASHINGTON, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2015. Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that it has obtained a preliminary injunction against World Law Group and its senior leaders for running a debt-relief scheme that charged consumers exorbitant, illegal upfront fees.[Read More…]
VA Awards $8 Million in Adaptive Sport Grants to Aid Disabled Veterans
Grants promote rehabilitation, health and wellness and community reintegration WASHINGTON –-(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2015. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald today announced the awarding of up to $8 million in grants to eligible recipients with experience managing largescale adaptive sports programs for disabled Veterans and disabled Servicemembers of the Armed[Read More…]
Latest Provocations Could Ignite Fresh Israeli-Palestinian Violence, Warns UN Envoy
Street scene in the Old City of Jerusalem. Photo: UNESCO/Roni Amelan JERUSALEM–(ENEWSPF)–15 September 2015 – The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council today that he is gravely concerned over the violence and continuing clashes in and around the holy sites of the[Read More…]
Working Families Respond to Scott Walker’s Proposals to Silence Their Voice
GOP candidate to announce plan to expand Koch brothers measures to entire nation Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 14, 2015. Monday night at a town hall meeting in Las Vegas, Scott Walker will promise that if he were elected president, he would enact several anti-union measures by executive order that would devastate workers’[Read More…]
Prairie State College Opens SouthWorks MakerLab on Campus
CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2015. Prairie State College recently opened a SouthWorks MakerLab on the college’s main campus, located at 202 S. Halsted St. in Chicago Heights. The lab is being offered in partnership with the Illinois Network for Advanced Manufacturing and the SouthWorks MakerLab Network. In the lab, guests can[Read More…]
Roosevelt University Computer Science Student Develops New Baseball Stat That Could Help Cubs Win!
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2015. JP Hochbaum is a senior computer science major at Roosevelt University. A resident of Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood, he’s also a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan. Now, at a time when the team is on its way to clinching a playoff spot as one of two National League[Read More…]
Experimental Ebola Vaccine Regimen Takes New Steps Under HHS Program
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2015. As part of the international effort to develop vaccines that protect against Ebola and similar viruses, the advanced development of an experimental vaccine regimen will take new steps with support from a four-year, $28.5 million agreement between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office[Read More…]
Scan May Identify Best Candidates for Fetal Spina Bifida Surgery
NIH-funded study links enlarged brain cavities to need for second surgery after birth Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2015. Fetuses with enlarged ventricles — the fluid-filled cavities inside the brain — may be less likely than their counterparts to benefit from surgery in the womb to treat spina bifida, according to a[Read More…]
