Sentences with phrase «south side neighborhood»

Police in Chicago responded to the scene of a pedestrian accident in the south side neighborhood of Pill Hill around 5:30 this morning.

The music provides a sharp contrast to the noises just outsidethe room's open windows: the backfiring mufflers, blasting boom boxes, and chatting passersby that are shepherding his troubled South Side neighborhood of Grand Crossing into spring.

Since he began work on his now famed Dorchester Projects in 2009, Gates's transformation of a once - neglected South Side neighborhood into a thriving cultural hub has yielded an enclave of buildings that offer an array of cultural programming, from gardening to youth art classes to Black Cinema.

More than a decade ago, Theaster Gates renovated a house in Greater Grand Crossing, a South Side neighborhood close to his job at the University of Chicago.

In his neglected South Side neighborhood, he's converted underused buildings into an Archive House for art and architecture books from a defunct store and a Listening Room full of vinyl records from another shuttered local business.

«He's important because he's using art to draw attention to things other than art, to this blighted South side neighborhood and to the idea that art can do a lot more than it usually does.»

A previously announced plan to expand the boundaries of four South Side neighborhood high schools to take in students displaced by the proposed closings remains in place.

Although the two charter schools primarily serve African American families eligible for free or reduced - price school lunches, South Side neighborhood district schools likely experience a higher degree of disadvantage.

He was hoping to invite Cuomo for a ride around the South Side neighborhood on a pedicab, Hawkins» answer to Cuomo's bus tour through Upstate today.

He disregards its importance when stacked up against the current struggles in the day - to - day life of his rough South Side neighborhood.

Like North Side - South Side this neighborhood is located on the water facing Manhattan.

In the 19th ward, which contains almost all of South Campus and stretches west into the Interstate 81 corridor and South Side neighborhoods, Perez Williams garnered 701 votes to Walsh's 649.

Both based on Milwaukee appearance which also boasted east and south side neighborhoods with small cottages in the back yard used as rentals.

She is also president of her own investment property and property management firm specializing in small, multi-unit properties primarily located in south side neighborhoods of Chicago.

Not exact matches

John Stallworth has been selling hardware and fixing bikes at his shop on Chicago's South Side for 50 years, helping to anchor a neighborhood that's struggled with population loss and divestment.

Starbucks will seek to build similar alliances in each of the 13 additional communities it is considering in the national initiative, including stores in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago's South Side and a remodeled store at 7th & Camelback in Phoenix.

It is an unwritten law on the South Side that Jackie Robinson Park is sacred ground, that the neighborhood's corner drug dealers and pistol - toting gang bangers take their business elsewhere.

Meanwhile, group's list of seven included religious structures throughout the city, such as St. Gelasius; the South Side Masonic Temple, 6400 S. Green St.; the East Village neighborhood; the old Cook County Hospital, 1825 W. Harrison St.; the West Loop Mercantile District; the Isabella Building, 21 E. Van Buren St., and Prentice Hospital, 333 E. Superior St.

Seven of the rinks will be constructed in neighborhood parks: Lincoln and Riis Parks on the Near North Side, Garfield Park on the West Side, McKinley and Fuller Parks on the South Side, and Rowan and Mt. Greenwood Parks on the Far South Side.

But this was Roseland, a neighborhood on the city's Far South Side that has seen a recent spate of violence against its youth.

Gardeners in Naperville are angry, but residents of one neighborhood are pleased by a Park District decision to hold off providing space for more than 150 new community garden plots on the city's south side.

From the North Side to the South Side and neighborhoods in between, Shedd Aquarium is partnering with local elected officials during Earth Week to host four, simultaneous Great Lakes Action Days on Saturday, April 21 to pick up litter, like plastic, on local beaches.

This move, long desired by the Puerto Rican - born CM Mark - Viverito, reflects the transition of Manhattan Valley from being part of south Harlem into part of the Upper West Side: the neighborhood since 2000 has become substantially more white and Asian, and quite substantially less black and Latino.

«It was not all about the big projects only, that we would not overlook neighborhoods like Hamlin Park and the East Side and the West Side and the South Buffalo areas, that we would make sure that recovery, Buffalo's transformation, would also be seen on the street corners and the city blocks and that people's lives could be transformed by having simply a better quality of life,» Hochul said.

Daley was Chicago's third consecutive mayor from the working - class, heavily Irish American Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, where he lived his entire life.

The 26th State Senate district includes the Manhattan neighborhoods of Battery Park City, Chinatown, the East and South Villages, the Financial District, Little Italy, the Lower East Side, SoHo, and Tribeca and the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, the Columbia Waterfront, DUMBO, Downtown Brooklyn, Fulton Ferry, Greenpoint, the Navy Yard, Vinegar Hill, and Williamsburg.

The district includes the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, the Columbia Waterfront, DUMBO, Downtown Brooklyn, Fulton Ferry, Greenpoint, the Navy Yard, Vinegar Hill, and Williamsburg, and the Manhattan neighborhoods of Battery Park City, Chinatown, the East and South Villages, the Financial District, Little Italy, the Lower East Side, SoHo, and Tribeca.

Hawkins is a resident of Syracuse's South Side, a traditionally low - income neighborhood southwest of Syracuse University's Main Campus.

After saying she believed troops could be out of Iraq by 2013, Maloney touted the grant for the Sunnyside Yards, which run near the south side of Northern Boulevard and Jackson Avenue in the neighborhood.

That district, which includes downtown, the South Side and parts of the University Hill neighborhood, is the city's most Democratic and one of its youngest.

Volunteers erected walls on two 300 square foot tiny homes in a low income neighborhood on the city's south side.

The neighborhood around Midland and West Ostrander Avenues on Syracuse's south side has been the location of many shootings and several homicides in recent years.

Senator John A. DeFrancisco said, «I was happy to support the Salina Crossing project in Syracuse to help revitalize our neighborhoods on the north and south sides of the city and provide quality affordable housing to many of our deserving residents.

Perez Williams had her strongest showing on the Near West Side, South Side and the neighborhoods around Syracuse University.

Poindexter is among south side residents concerned that more renovations are happening in other neighborhoods.

Last year he sought the Democratic Party nomination for the 4th district council seat, which covers downtown, the South Side and the University Hill neighborhood.

Wearing a blue rain jacket and a Navy hat with a ponytail poking out the back, Perez Williams toured the South Side that morning, knocking on doors, parked cars and even flagging down pedestrians as she drove from one neighborhood to the next in a white Chevy Malibu.

The 3rd Council District covers the southernmost neighborhoods of Syracuse, extending from Winkworth on the west through the Valley and parts of the South Side to Outer Comstock on the east.

Mayor Stephanie Miner and SU Chancellor Kent Syverud announced details of the deal Thursday afternoon, which include support for neighborhoods on the South Side.

The hybrid plan satisfies the desire of some to keep the interstate flowing through the city and of others to knit the city's South Side and University Hill neighborhoods with the downtown by getting rid of an overhead highway.

September 26, 2016 Comer Children's wins $ 2M federal grant to help kids affected by violence The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital will provide screening and mental health care for hundreds of children and families that have been affected by violence in many of Chicago's South and West side neighborhoods.

The Gallagher family is back for the eighth season of this darkly humorous dramedy about a poor but scrappy family trying to get by in a rapidly - gentrifying south side Chicago neighborhood.

The boy's sweat is in the very walls of Robert F. Kennedy Charter High School, located in a once - dilapidated post office in a poor neighborhood on the south side of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Chicago school board has voted to close four high schools in the Englewood neighborhood over the next three years as it builds a replacement school in the South Side community.

The Teachers Academy building will become a neighborhood high school for the Near South Side.

Supporters of a South Side charter school have abandoned plans to move into Hirsch High School, one of Chicago's most under - enrolled neighborhood high schools, citing financial issues.

Michelle is the proud principal of TEAM Englewood Community Academy, located in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.

Born on Chicago's south side and a product of its public schools, Brown has organized the Kenwood Oakland neighborhood for 17 + years, bringing community voices to the table on school issues.

Its student body turns over often as kids from the largely - poor neighborhoods on Evansville's south side moved from school to school.

But family structures haven't been ravaged by drugs, violence and teenage pregnancy to the same extent as surrounding predominantly African - American neighborhoods on the south and west sides.