Business News

79th Street Art Gallery GRAND OPENING!

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With such an excellent addition to the Ashburn/Auburn Gresham community, let’s embrace the Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. That in its self is Artistic Expression. It is the byproduct of Art. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic form.

Southside NAACP ACT-SO Is Here!

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The NAACP’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics is a yearlong achievment program to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African-american high school students. ACT-SO includes 26 categories of competition in the sciences, humanities, business, and performing and visual arts.

Free Mammograms for Uninsured Englewood Women

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St. Bernard Hospital is donating 150 free mammograms for women who live in the Englewood and West Englewood neighborhoods. As part of the ‘Screen to Live’ initiative, sponsored by the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force, the program specifically targets African American women in these communities, who are not covered by health insurance and are over 40 years of age.

Auburn Gresham Residents Earn Technology Acolades

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The Southwest Smart Communities Collaborative still had a lot to celebrate the end of June and early July. The Auburn Gresham FamilyNet Center far left (awards one of the youngest residents an earned Netbook), Tech Organizer presents a Certificate of Digital Literacy to a resident that “made it happen” (center), and a very supportive resident earns a Netbook and Certificate of completion for her final class.