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Monthly Archives: June 2019

More Than Sixty Percent of City Colleges Students Surveyed Are Food or Housing Insecure, According to A New Report

More Than Sixty Percent of City Colleges Students Surveyed Are Food or Housing Insecure, According to A New Report

According to a report released by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University’s College of Education, 64 percent of the City Colleges of Chicago students surveyed… Read more »

YMCA of Metro Chicago Teaming Up with Google to Bring Bilingual Online Safety

YMCA of Metro Chicago Teaming Up with Google to Bring Bilingual Online Safety

The YMCA of Chicago is teaming up with Google to host workshops for parents to help teach families about online safety and digital citizenship with its Be Internet Awesome program… Read more »

Two Hours Per Week is Key Dose of Nature for Health and Wellbeing

Two Hours Per Week is Key Dose of Nature for Health and Wellbeing

Spending at least two hours a week in nature may be a crucial threshold for promoting health and wellbeing, according to a new large-scale study. Research led by the University… Read more »

Be Aware of These Skincare Products When in Sun

Be Aware of These Skincare Products When in Sun

You’re all set for a fun day in the sun with your wide-brimmed hat to shield you from the UV rays, and you have given your waterproof SPF 30 or… Read more »

Erie Family Health Centers Moves Chicagoland Toward a Society Without HIV

Erie Family Health Centers Moves Chicagoland Toward a Society Without HIV

After 30 fulfilling years of the nationally-recognized HIV/AIDS program, Lending Hands for Life, Erie Family Health Centers is the closest it’s ever been to moving Chicagoland toward a society without… Read more »

Know Your Status: ‘GTZ-IL to end HIV epidemic by 2030’

Know Your Status: ‘GTZ-IL to end HIV epidemic by 2030’

By: Ashmar Mandou According to Getting to Zero Illinois (GTZ-IL), a state-wide initiative to end the HIV epidemic in the state by 2030, an estimated 39, 842 people were living… Read more »

Gov. Pritzker Signs Bills Protecting Illinoisans from Cancer-causing Chemicals

Gov. Pritzker Signs Bills Protecting Illinoisans from Cancer-causing Chemicals

Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation tightening restrictions on the cancer-causing chemical ethylene oxide in Illinois. The bills, SB1852 and SB1854, were proposed after tests showed alarming levels of ethylene oxide… Read more »

Gov. Pritzker Signs Most Equity-Centric Law in Nation to Legalize Adult-Use Cannabis

Gov. Pritzker Signs Most Equity-Centric Law in Nation to Legalize Adult-Use Cannabis

Surrounded by a bipartisan group of lawmakers and criminal justice reform advocates, Governor JB Pritzker signed the most equity-centric law on Tuesday to legalize adult-use cannabis in Illinois, beginning Jan…. Read more »

Taylor Street Apartments and Little Italy Branch Library Garner National Award

Taylor Street Apartments and Little Italy Branch Library Garner National Award

The Taylor Street Apartments and Little Italy Branch Library development has been honored as Project of the Year by Smart Growth America/LOCUS Leadership Awards. The award was announced Sunday at… Read more »

Armed suspect arrested in gun related traffic stop in Village of Lyons

Armed suspect arrested in gun related traffic stop in Village of Lyons

A Lyons Police squad car pulled over a vehicle on a routine traffic stop involving excessive speeding at around 5:45 PM on Ogden Avenue between White and Leland Streets in… Read more »