Sentences with phrase «class suburb on»

He grew up in Justice, Ill., a working - class suburb on the fringe of Chicago, in a household headed by his stepfather, an ironworker, and his mother, a traditional homemaker.

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All of this puts more pressure on downtown office markets, driving tenants who can not pay class A rents into the suburbs.

And in the growing suburbs of Nashville, where New South mobility is bringing lots of non-Methodists into an old traditional Methodist church, another pastor reported: «Every year I try to do, after I do the confirmation class for the kids, a series of four to five weeks on United Methodist beliefs.

You said, «A clear reference to the term «recovering alcoholic,» it is on a par with calling middle class blacks who live in the suburbs and eschew «ebonics,» «recovering african americans.»»

On a recent Sunday morning, worshipers packed a Pentecostal church set up on the second floor of an apartment building in a working class suburb of HavanOn a recent Sunday morning, worshipers packed a Pentecostal church set up on the second floor of an apartment building in a working class suburb of Havanon the second floor of an apartment building in a working class suburb of Havana.

During Splash's youth, Wauwatosa had been a small bedroom suburb on the western outskirts of Milwaukee, a quiet, tidy enclave whose middle - class affluence was as sturdy as its stone houses, as neatly clipped as its putting - green lawns, a town where men often took the streetcar to work, or else walked whistling under the elms.

On the housing segregation by income and class, I would much prefer to use analogies with the Parisian suburbs, gated communities, and (perhaps over-dramatically) the social stratification of Dickensian London, or (most accurately) the electoral gerrymandering of Shirley Porter.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) said the Senate plan, like the House bill, would harm middle and upper middle - class taxpayers on Long Island and in suburbs across the country — and warned House Republicans voting for their bills they could face defeat next year.

They will vote on May 20 and will likely determine the next member of Congress from the heavily Democratic district, which begins in the working - class segment of northeast Philadelphia and fans out into the wealthy Montgomery County suburbs.

Another was a $ 6 billion, three - year property tax relief plan that would focus new aid on middle - class homeowners, granting an average of $ 920 in relief for such families in the New York suburbs and an average of $ 512 upstate.

«State and local deductibility is a dagger aimed at the heart of New York and particularly of so many of our middle class residents,» Schumer said during a press conference with Cuomo on the front lawn of a home in the suburbs of Albany.

And the Chinese middle class has adopted another American habit: living in the suburbs and relying on a car to commute, whether it be in «Orange County» outside Beijing or similar suburbs on the outskirts of every other major city.

Jersey boy Smith moves this film to Pittsburgh's suburbs, where the snow seems to fall with the grime already on it, and his working - class milieu and customer - service culture remain intact.

Functioning more as a mythology - expanding spinoff than a proper sequel, this fifth installment (the first directed by longtime series writer Christopher Landon) smartly moves the setting away from airy suburbs to overcrowded working - class apartments, and introduces a winning sense of humor that almost compensates for its relentless reliance on every terror trope in the book.

Here he's working in a middle - class suburb of New York, where Marlo and her husband, Drew (Ron Livingston, playing a very Ron Livingston character), are slightly overwhelmed by everything: they have two kids, one with emerging special needs, and a baby on the way, and their lives have devolved to rote routine.

Annie (Liana Liberato), from a middle - class Chicago suburb, is a shy 14 - year - old who strikes up an increasingly intimate online friendship with «Charlie» (Chris Henry Coffey), who claims he is 16, later on admitting to being in his mid-20s.

03, who chairs the math department at Sleepy Hollow High School in New York City's northern suburbs, had these issues on her mind one morning in early September during her first - period Fundamentals of Algebra class.

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

However, Moe does not point out that core constituents of the Republican party — middle - class and white families in suburbs — also disagree with their party elites on choice.

According to three Harvard researchers writing in the Wall Street Journal on Aug. 18, NAEP data «show students in charter schools doing less well than the nationwide public - school average, which includes middle - class students from well - heeled suburbs.»

Today, when White speaks in support of the Common Core, he can seem to talk minimally (or too little) about its impact on middle - class schools, reserving his most impassioned rhetoric for the ways in which the Common Core will help the poorest and neediest in the state, offering those students the caliber of education rich kids in high - performing East Coast suburbs are getting.

Eagles View is perched on the edge of the Kloof Gorge and Krantzkloof Nature Reserve located in Kloof, a leafy upper class suburb and small town situated in Durban and best known for its reserves and picturesque landscapes.

Apartment on Bellevue is a self - catering unit located in Kloof a leafy upper - class suburb and small town in the greater Durban area.

35 on Fairview is located in Kloof a leafy upper - class suburb and small town in the greater Durban area.

Eagles View is perched on the edge of the Kloof Gorge and Krantzkloof Nature Reserve located in Kloof, a leafy upper class suburb and small town situated in Durban and best known for its reserves and picturesque lan...

Higgovale is one of those wonderful suburbs that, as well as being sought after, upper - class, tasteful and dignified, has some of the most spectacular views from its situation on the slopes of Table Mountain with wonderful little roads that run at...

Arnaud believes it's a fascinating beach, surrounded by working class communities that give a nod to Estonia's communist past; an industrial port with abandoned warehouses to the east and richer suburbs and wealthy gated properties on the western side that show a more prosperous country today.

The Suburban isn't even technically in Chicago; it's on the border, residing in Oak Park, an idyllic middle - class American suburb about a halfhour's drive west from downtown.

Her paintings are based on vacation photosand snapshots of Americans engaged in the long - standing, class - specific summer ritual of departing the city and suburbs for shore and lake houses during the summer season.

Speaking of race, writes Imani Perry in Race and Rioting: «Yesterday was the first time that I heard race or immigrant status mentioned on broadcast television with respect to the recent uprisings and protests occurring in poor and working class suburbs across France.

I'm referring to the middle - class neighborhoods on the outskirts and in the suburbs.