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- For Many Latina Teens, Gang Life Adds to Stress 2/22/2010
- Young Latinas feel pressures to adapt to the more freewheeling lifestyles of American teenagers. Paired with these struggles is the stigma associated with mental illness in the Latino community.
- Wireless Internet planned for 5 city areas 12/23/2009
- Humboldt Park added to targeted neighborhoods
- Internet in Chicago: Daley hopes to add access in underserved neighborhoods 12/23/2009
- 'Smart Communities' plan would increase broadband access in five neighborhoods: Humboldt Park, Pilsen, Auburn Gresham, Chicago Lawn and Englewood
- Chicago Bridges Digital Divide 12/23/2009
- According to a recent ABC television report Tuesday December 22 saw Chicago Mayor Daley joined by the Federal Communications Commissions chair Julius Genachowski in announcing further steps taken to close the digital divide and improve Internet service in Chicago South Side neighborhoods.
- Program launched to bridge digital divide 12/23/2009
- A new step is taken to close the digital divide and improve Internet service in South Side neighborhoods. The 'smart communities' program was unveiled on Tuesday at the greater Southwest Development Corporation.
- Daley targets 'digital divide' 12/23/2009
- Mayor wants broadband Internet in poor neighborhoods
- Angela Hurlock brings affordable green housing to South Chicago 9/17/2009
- As part of Chicago Matters: Beyond Burnham, WBEZ-FM Chicago Public Radio is profiling local visionaries with an eye on our region’s future. Today meet Angela Hurlock, of Claretian Associates.
- Food deserts slowly fill in 9/3/2009
- On the Near West Side, residents are to learn later this month which grocer will open on a long-vacant lot on the southeast corner of Madison Street and Western Avenue.
- South Siders spend billions each year outside their neighborhoods 9/3/2009
- South Side of Chicago residents are forced to spend billions of dollars each year outside of their communities. Basic shopping needs such as groceries and household items often go unmet. But what a lot of people don’t know, says LISC business manager Jake Cowan, is that underserved communities actually have a lot of spending power.
- Grocery gives sweet taste of victory 8/28/2009
This was the end of a fight, the end of a drought, the beginning of a new age in one of Chicago's official "food deserts."
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