Sentences with phrase «community on the south side»

The Chi, Season 1, Episode 1: A fateful event sends shockwaves through a community on the South Side of Chicago and connects the lives of Brandon, Ronnie, Emmett and Kevin in wholly unexpected ways.

I live in the Bronzeville community on the south side and entered the fight for education justice when CPS closed my grandbaby's elementary school, Anthony Overton.

The portion of the community on the south side of the mouth is more isolated with only one road providing access to the community.

«John Preus has been a leader in the artistic community on the South Side for many years, known for being part of powerful collaborative projects,» said Kate Lorenz, Hyde Park Art Center's Executive Director.

Theaster Gates's practice spans sculpture and ceramics, architecture and urban planning, operating within a «circular economy» that connects «underserved black communities on the South Side of Chicago with the institutional art world» (Andrew Herscher).

Not exact matches

Most oilsands projects are well north of the community, while the worst of the flames were on the city's south side.

This Friday December 29th at 6:00 PM members of more than two dozen New York City and other community groups who are seriously concerned about the situation in Puerto Rico, now that more than 100 days have passed since the devastation that hurricane Maria brought to the island, will converge on the south side of Union Square to have their voices heard.

When Obama landed on Chicago's South Side in 1985 as an idealistic 23 - year - old, eager to start work as a community organizer, he was already a political liberal.

Chris Butler, pastor at Embassy Church on the south side of Chicago, told the federal appeals court: «For the majority of churches, the pastors are like me and experience at some level the same problems that we're trying to face in the community.

The projects have included design work on Hawthorne Community Center, which is a new South Side bowling alley and roller rink owned by the Park District, as well as oversight on a $ 30 million renovation and expansion of Adler Planetarium completed in 1998.

Naperville leaders agreed Tuesday to negotiate a land purchase that would set the wheels in motion for a community parks and library campus on the south side of the city.

The structure would become the centerpiece of a proposed national historical park on the Far South Side if Congress signs off, a step that community leaders say would spark...

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.

Park District officials plan to place the skate park north of the community garden plots, on the west side of West Street, south of Martin Avenue.

Park officials planned to build a $ 3.8 million recreation center on the south side and a community park and working farm on the north side, leaving details of that development up to a 14 - member resident advisory committee.

«We need to focus on the 1,800 blighted houses on the South Side of the city that sit and contribute to horrendous things in communities,» Perez Williams said.

While Clinton was in town for Maffei's campaign, Katko, R - Camillus, touted endorsements he received from community leaders on Syracuse's South Side.

April 14, 2016 UChicago Medicine to Hold Community Forum on Proposal to Expand Emergency, Trauma and Specialty Care and Create a Cancer Hospital on South Side The University of Chicago Medicine announced the next phase of its public engagement campaign in support of its plans to increase access to emergency, trauma and specialty care and create a dedicated cancer hospital.

June 29, 2017 UChicago Medicine announces South Side Pediatric Asthma Center Recognizing that asthma affects children on Chicago's South Side more than most other communities in the city, the University of Chicago Medicine's Urban Health Initiative and the Department of Pediatrics will lead a collaboration of health providers to develop the South Side Pediatric Asthma Center.

December 17, 2015 The University of Chicago Medicine announces historic community plan to strengthen access to care for Chicago's South Side UChicago plan includes a level 1 adult trauma center on its campus; new and expanded ER; and increase in hospital beds to meet community needs.

In the shadow of Altgeld Gardens, in a church on the South Side, a lanky, charismatic, 28 - year - old lawyer addresses a small group of community organizers.

The two spend the day together on the city's South side — hence the title — visiting an art exhibit, attending a community meeting, seeing a movie (Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing) and finally sharing a climactic ice cream cone.

Ewing, who is currently completing her dissertation «Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago's South Side» — a look at the 2013 public school closures in Chicago, and the relationship between such closures and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community — is a sociologist focused on issues of racism, social inequality, and urban policy.

Ewing, who is currently completing her dissertation «Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago's South Side» — a look at the 2013 public school closures in Chicago, and the relationship between such closures and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community — is a sociologist focused on issues of racism, social...

She was the second New Leader to do her residency at a small but well - known school, Ariel Community Academy, located on the south side of Chicago.

The Ariel Community Academy, a public K - 8 school on the South Side of Chicago, has been achieving remarkable success thanks to a number of effective strategies, particularly a financial - literacy program.

Hence, the birth of Ariel Community Academy — a public school located on the south side of Chicago.

As part of this year's Every Kid Healthy ™ Week, Athletico Physical Therapy and Action for Healthy Kids partnered on a FoodTASTIC Family Health Fair at Harlan Community Academy High School on Chicago's South Side.

Through extensive study in the areas of next generation learning, social and emotional learning, wellness, urban planning, Hip - Hop culture, Chicago history, the opportunity gaps that exist among marginalized students, economic mobility, arts education, and the at - risk communities on Chicago's South Side, Art in Motion has a solid research foundation upon which to build an innovative middle and high school that has the potential to change the narrative for many Southside youth.

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.

Among the speakers were Jitu Brown, of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO), which issued an explanation of the event and a fact sheet challenging CPS claims about schools on the city's South Side.

She is also responsible for the instructional achievement of more than 17,000 students across several communities on the south and southeast sides of the city.

Born on Chicago's south side and a product of Chicago's public school system, Jitu has organized in the Kenwood Oakland neighborhood for over 17 years, bringing community voices to the table on school issues.

Overwhelmingly and almost exclusively, the communities of Chicago targeted for massive school closures are those on the City's South and West Side: communities that are dramatically impoverished and predominantly comprised of African Americans.

Located on the south side of Staunton, we are proud and privileged to now be serving Staunton, Harrisonburg, Lexington and the surrounding Virginia communities.

After chairing the school's first Commission on the Status of Women as a Kansas undergraduate, Paretsky worked as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side during the turbulent race riots of 1966.

Located on the far side of Coquitlam and south of the highway, Mary Hill is a community that's tucked away.

The course, designed by Jay Riviere, was carved out of Oak and Pine trees and gives the golfer a feeling that is not found anywhere else on the South side of Houston or in the Houston golf community.

The sprawling resort communities of Wailea and Makena on Maui's south side are known for world - class golf courses, famed luxury resorts, and fabulous spas, set on the shoreline between majestic Mount Haleakala and a series of beautiful beaches.

Happy House is located on the south side of 30A in the quaint neighborhood of Old Florida Cottages which has a community pool and is only a short walk (or bike ride) to the beach.

Hidden away, on the South side of Puig Redo, this stunning luxury villa resides in one of Ibiza's most sought after, and private communities.

For several projects he revamped properties on the South Side of Chicago, hosting art events intended to attract both the area's underserved communities and members of the neighboring University of Chicago community.

When artist Theaster Gates transformed a house on Chicago's derelict South Side into an artwork open to the community, it was just the beginning.

Peterson is also a founder of Hyde Park Kunstverein, a community museum that exhibits solo projects by international artists, architects, and filmmakers on Chicago's South Side, and Qeej Hero, a transcultural video game featuring the ancient Hmong wind instrument, the qeej.

In 1962, at the age of seventy - one, he took up drawing and began working out of a storefront gallery on Chicago's South Side, quickly becoming the self - taught paragon of the city's art community.

Theaster Gates, who participated in programs connected to both Feast and Project Row Houses, has created Dorchester Projects to creatively renovate and rebuild both buildings and communities on Chicago's South Side.

Local news report on the South Side Community Art Center's national preservation designation begins at 00:29 after an advertisment.

Gates has also received wide acclaim for repurposing and developing a number of under - utilized buildings on Chicago's South Side — transforming them into multi-use spaces for critical engagement with diverse communities.

«University, South Side communities can feast on the arts with Arcopia Events.»