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July 19: Focus on Family - Family Adventures
WGN NewsFamily Adventures Through August 27 Pilsen: Friday, July 22 and Friday, August 26 Hyde Park: Saturday, July 23 and Friday, August 5 Jackson Park: Friday, July 29 and Saturday, August 27 Lincoln Park: Saturday, August 6 Lincoln Square: Friday, August 12...Tags: Hyde Park, Jackson Park, Chinatown (Chicago, Illinois), Lincoln Square (Chicago, Illinois), Garfield Park
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Authorities: Dump truck hits, kills man in Pilsen
A man who was killed when a dump truck hit him this morning in the Pilsen neighborhood has been identified, authorities said. The pedestrian, identified by the Cook County medical examiner's office as Gerardo Rodriguez, was struck about 8:30 a.m. in the...
Tags: Chicago Police Department, Hospitals and Clinics, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
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Pilsen group partners with N.C. credit union to save failed Chicago bank's mortgages
A Pilsen neighborhood group has partnered with a North Carolina-based federal credit union to acquire almost 1,100 Chicago-area mortgage loans, with the goal of preserving homeownership in several largely Hispanic communities. Self-Help Federal Credit...Tags: Brighton Park, Chicago Mortgages, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Mortgages, Finance
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Fostering news literacy
This school year, hundreds of Chicago students in junior high and high school participated in classroom training for the News Literacy Project. To wrap up the school year, the program held its News Literacy Project Showcase last week at the Chicago...
Tags: Schools, Chicago Tribune, Students, Education, Journalism
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Victory Gardens to stage new version of 'Medea,' set in Pilsen
Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago said Thursday that it plans to end its current season with the world premiere of "Mojada," a new adaptation of the classical Greek tragedy "Medea" set in modern-day Pilsen. It's the work of Luis Alfaro, the author of...Tags: Arts and Culture, Victory Gardens Theatre
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Sea and Cake: From upstarts to Chicago rock royalty
When The Sea and Cake hit the Chicago music scene in the mid-'90s, the group helped redefine the Chicago sound. Until then, Chicago's rock scene had been known for clangorous din and hard-edged, macho aggression. And then, suddenly, there was Sam Prekop...
Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment, Music Theater, Music, Tortoise (music group)
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Family Spokesman: George McGovern dead at age 90
WALTER R. MEARS,Associated PressSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — George S. McGovern, a proud liberal who argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a senator from South Dakota and suffered one of the most crushing defeats in presidential election history against Richard Nixon in 1972,...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, Political Candidates, Parties and Movements
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Former SD Sen. and 1972 Presidential candidate George McGovern dies
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way — and that he had done so. It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal that fully unfurled too late to knock...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, Political Candidates, Parties and Movements
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Heroic police officer dies of natural causes after 40 years of service
Tribune reporterChicago Police Officer Michael Daliege served the Monroe District for 40 years, including putting his life on the line to take care of residents in the Pilsen neighborhood. The veteran officer, 63, died today of natural causes in hospice care only...Tags: Heroism, Chicago Transit Authority
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Latino college students get boost from Pilsen center
WGN NewsThere’s an educational crisis in Chicago’s Latino community. Experts say in this tough economy, too many college students are dropping out to help their families survive. But a one-of-a-kind effort hopes to reverse the trend. The $12.2...Tags: Students, Education, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities
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Problem Solver: Mustard stains shirt, strains relations
The only thing everyone seems to agree on is this: Matt Gudgeon walked into Honky Tonk BBQ in Pilsen on Sept. 8 wearing a perfectly clean J. Crew shirt. He walked out wearing a mustard-stained mess. Almost every detail of how his shirt got stained is...Tags: McDonald's, Mustard, Tru, J. Crew, Jon Yates
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Many inner-city Catholic schools struggling financially
WGN NewsTo some extent Chicago's massive Catholic school system appears to have benefitted from the problems at Chicago Public Schools The superintendent of Catholic schools reports that enrollment at the elementary school level is up. But depending on...Tags: Religion and Belief, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Religious Education
May 28, 2012
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Nov 19, 2012
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May 25, 2012
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Nov 1, 2012
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Oct 25, 2012
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Oct 21, 2012
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Oct 21, 2012
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Oct 11, 2012
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Oct 10, 2012
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Oct 7, 2012
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Oct 3, 2012
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