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    May 8, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Is it curtains for Central Park Theatre?

    In a sea of empty lots in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood sits a faded relic that is one of the most historically significant American movie theaters still standing.
    In a sea of empty lots in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood sits a faded relic that is one of the most historically significant American movie theaters still standing. When it opened in 1917, the red-brick, three-story Central Park Theatre was...

    Tags: Paramount Pictures, Human Interest, Central Park, Architecture, Uptown

    2. May 25, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. CeaseFire complains police interfere with group's push to ease gang conflicts

    CeaseFire Illinois workers say Chicago police officers are increasingly ordering them off street corners in Woodlawn along with gang members, interfering with their efforts to tamp down violence in the crime-plagued neighborhood.
    CeaseFire Illinois workers say Chicago police officers are increasingly ordering them off street corners in Woodlawn along with gang members, interfering with their efforts to tamp down violence in the crime-plagued neighborhood. The alleged harassment...

    Tags: Career and Workplace, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Murder, CeaseFire, Chicago Transit Authority

    3. May 23, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. CPS approves largest school closure in Chicago's history

    Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings.
    Tribune reporters
    Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings....

    Tags: Lobbying, Francis Scott Key, Jesse Owens, Politics, Carrie Austin

    4. May 23, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. CPS OKs massive closings

    Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings.
    Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings....

    Tags: Chicago Teachers Union, Francis Scott Key, University of Chicago, Separation of Church and State, Ryerson Incorporated

    5. May 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Boy injured in fall from 2nd floor window on West Side

    A 4-year-old boy fell from a second-story window in his family’s North Lawndale neighborhood apartment Saturday and narrowly missed a spiked metal gate in front of the entrance, authorities said.
    Tribune reporter
    A 4-year-old boy fell from a second-story window in his family’s North Lawndale neighborhood apartment Saturday and narrowly missed a spiked metal gate in front of the entrance, authorities said. The boy had apparently been jumping on the couch...

    Tags: Chicago Fire Department, Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois)

    6. May 6, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. Analyzing the effects of shutting Red Line for 5 months on South Side

    The <strong>Chicago Transit Authority's</strong> next big project and its impact on riders were the focus of conversation Friday afternoon at Carter's Barbershop in the city's <strong>North Lawndale </strong>neighborhood.
    The Chicago Transit Authority's next big project and its impact on riders were the focus of conversation Friday afternoon at Carter's Barbershop in the city's North Lawndale neighborhood. Bert Downing, the owner of the shop at 3622 W. Cermak Road in...

    Tags: Michigan Avenue, Transportation, Entertainment, Radio, Chicago Transit Authority

    7. May 8, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. UCAN to break ground on new campus, address gun violence

    Before Tom Vanden Berk's 15-year-old son was shot and killed at a Rogers Park house party in 1992, Vanden Berk didn't think much could be done about gun control. But since then, the gun violence prevention movement has been front and center in his life.
    Before Tom Vanden Berk's 15-year-old son was shot and killed at a Rogers Park house party in 1992, Vanden Berk didn't think much could be done about gun control. But since then, the gun violence prevention movement has been front and center in his life....

    Tags: Murder, Health Treatments, Justice and Rights, Politics, Prisons

    8. Apr 4, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. CeaseFire and the Chicago police: Taking stock of an uncomfortable relationship

    At a time when Chicago's association with violence is under a microscope, CeaseFire&rsquo;s role under its one-year contract with the city (now at its midway point) underscores how policing is not the only solution in stopping the killings.&nbsp;
    At a time when Chicago's association with violence is under a microscope, CeaseFire’s role under its one-year contract with the city (now at its midway point) underscores how policing is not the only solution in stopping the killings.  When...

    Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, CeaseFire, Chicago Police Department, Punishment, Armed Conflicts

    9. Mar 17, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. 27 displaced by Albany Park apartment fire

    A fire in a three-story brick apartment building in the Albany Park neighborhood early Sunday morning displaced 27 people, authorities said.
    Tribune reporter
    A fire in a three-story brick apartment building in the Albany Park neighborhood early Sunday morning displaced 27 people, authorities said. Fire engines, trucks and ambulances jammed the blocks surrounding the building, in the 4800 block of North...

    Tags: Albany Park, Chicago Transit Authority, American Red Cross, Lawndale (Chicago, Illinois)

    10. Feb 22, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  10. 'Louder Than a Bomb' still crackles with young poets' ideas

    Last week, in a valiant effort and one that deserves to be applauded, the mayor and NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas took the point in an effort to raise money to expand the at-risk youth basketball program known as Windy City Hoops.
    Last week, in a valiant effort and one that deserves to be applauded, the mayor and NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas took the point in an effort to raise money to expand the at-risk youth basketball program known as Windy City Hoops. “For me, as a...

    Tags: Isiah Thomas, Columbia College Chicago, Robert Frost, Garfield Park, Chicago Cultural Center

    11. Feb 11, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. Man gets 50 years for shooting man over cell phone

    A Chicago man was sentenced to 50 years in prison for trying to kill a man who he suspected of stealing a cell phone after a party in the North Lawndale neighborhood, prosecutors said today.
    Tribune reporter
    A Chicago man was sentenced to 50 years in prison for trying to kill a man who he suspected of stealing a cell phone after a party in the North Lawndale neighborhood, prosecutors said today. Frank Jemison was convicted of the Sept. 14, 2008 shooting of a...

    Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Crimes, Cell Phones, Theft

    12. Jan 30, 2013 |Story| RedEye

  12. 2 communities log double homicides on same day

    RedEye
    Bridgeport, Englewood and West Garfield Park each saw two homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. In Bridgeport, two men were shot to death Saturday in the 500 block of West Pershing Road, police said....

    Tags: Murder, Humboldt Park, Greater Grand Crossing, Shootings, East Side

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Theater owner John Balaban, left, accepts the Box Offic...
(May 1, 2013)
Pioneer Award
A call-board which was used backstage for vaudeville pe...
(April 30, 2013)
Call-board
Chicago police stand outside the scene of a home invasi...
(October 18, 2011)
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