CPS reverses itself, gives job candidate a 2nd chance
In July, I told you about Darrell Langdon, a Chicago man who applied to the Chicago Public Schools system for a job as a stationary engineer (or boiler room engineer)...
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North Shore woman believes school funding reform is everyone’s concern
Lali Watt comes from a family that stressed the importance of education. Her father is a retired certified public accountant, and her late mother was a nuclear physicist in an...
Deputy chief probation officer of the Cook County Juvenile Court retires after 32 years
On a recent afternoon, Steve Eiseman, who retired earlier this month as deputy chief probation officer of the Cook County Juvenile Court, was clearing out his office, rummaging through 32...
Race, politics and power
Chicago gave the nation its first African-American president, but the only wide-open mayoral election in recent memory may prove the acid test for how far the city has come in...
Leader stayed loyal to West Side
In a summer in which gang violence seemed to dominate the headlines, about 240 teenagers, some self-professed gang members, quietly played basketball several times a week from June to August...
Social worker shares personal story of living with mental illness
While pursuing a bachelor's degree in psychology at Bradley University, Jason Langman studied mental illness in a theoretical, almost antiseptic way. After graduating, he found jobs working as a social...
Social worker shares personal story of living with mental illness
While pursuing a bachelor's degree in psychology at Bradley University, Jason Langman studied mental illness in a theoretical, almost antiseptic way. After graduating, he found jobs working as a social...
Artist cultivates for neighborhood, kids
There are many pockets within the South Chicago neighborhood that are, well, hard on the eyes and hungry for greenery. Drive east down 91st Street, and it quickly dead-ends at...
Artist cultivates for neighborhood, kids
There are many pockets within the South Chicago neighborhood that are, well, hard on the eyes and hungry for greenery. Drive east down 91st Street, and it quickly dead-ends at...
Alpha Phi Alpha chapter celebrates 100 years of making men
When Jordan McMillan was young, he would hang out in a South Side bowling alley with his twin brother, father and a group of boys who were about five years...