Chicago Architecture Foundation CITY WIDE Open House!
Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Open House Chicago is a free public event that offers behind-the-scenes access to over 150 buildings across Chicago
Community Highlights
Southside NAACP ACT-SO Is Here!
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.
Northwestern Students Canvas Auburn Gresham
On Thursday, September 20th students from Northwestern FUP (Freshman Urban Program) coordinated their incoming freshmen, to come into the Auburn Gresham community to
To Strike! or Not To Strike!?!
To Strike or Not To Strike is the question. Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of leviathan , or to take Arms against a Sea of educational troubles. These are the questions one must ask themselves
7th Annual 79th Street Renaissance Festival and Family Jam for Peace a Huge Success!
7th Annual 79th Street Renaissance Festival and Family Jam for Peace Today, September 8th @ 10am!
Stop Pawn Shop Establishment at 7900 S. Western Avenue
North Beverly Civic Association is assisting residents of the 17th, 18th, and 21st Wards to petition the Chicago Zoning Board of Appeals to DENY zoning changes at 7900 S. Western Avenue that will permit the establishment of a Cash America Pawnshop at that location.
Auburn Gresham Veteran Health and Resource Fair
Attention: Auburn Gresham Community Residents & Veterans
Catholic Charities St. Leo Campus and the VA Auburn Gresham Clinic are hosting an Auburn Gresham Veteran Health and Resource Fair from 10am-2pm on September 5th, 2012 at St. Leo Campus for Veterans located at 7750 S. Emerald in Chicago, IL 60620.
Free Mammograms for Uninsured Englewood Women
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
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.
Greater Grand Crossing Youth Hopeful of Neighborhood Recovery
STEP-UP Fellow from Illinois State University, interns with the Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation, working with Aurora Cruz who presides over the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative (NRI) program in Greater Grand Crossing. A favorite part of interning with the GAGDC office and more specifically the NRI program has definitely been communicating directly with representative members of NRI’s Mentoring + Jobs program.