Hyde Park
The renowned biblical scholar loved walking the streets of Hyde Park every day and taking groups of students to experience the Holy Land.
She succeeds David Axelrod. Two things you didn’t know: Heidi isn’t her real first name. And she grew up in a town so small that “my family was one-tenth” its total population.
“No one can hack it because they can’t read it,” David Awschalom says. “Because the act of looking at it changes it. Destroys it.”
Diamond, who studied the effects of bank runs and financial meltdowns, shares this year’s prize with co-author Philip Dybvig and former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Her husband was renowned for his publicity stunts. She came up with a few of her own. She died Sept. 10 at Montgomery Place retirement community in Hyde Park.
The Black, Southern cuisine that the Harvey-raised chef learned at home has made Hyde Park’s Virtue the hottest spot on the South Side and made him a success on “Top Chef.”
The merger under nonprofit ownership marks the retirement of the Herald’s longtime owner, Bruce Sagan, a leading figure in Chicago publishing.
“All we’re trying to do is paint a different picture, tell a different story and share a different narrative about Black men in America as positive and productive and progressive, while building bridges and not walls,” the group’s leader said Monday.
The music performances, vendors, kids’ activities and Black history education felt “almost like a family reunion,” one participant said.
“What is notable is the mindset shift,” says Jadine Chou, the school system’s safety and security chief. “We are seeing schools wanting to support our young people more than ever.”
Voters dumped Jackie Portman-Brown after video showed her locking up her 6-year-old grandniece to teach her a lesson. “Would I do this again?” Portman-Brown says. “Probably not. But her behavior has been improved since this incident.”
The Promontory Point Conservancy announced last week that U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly earmarked $550,000 of federal funding to authorize a third-party engineering study of the Point’s limestone revetment.
Chicago friends have been rooting on the Hyde Park native (and Harold’s Chicken fan) on his way to the high-flying blockbuster.
Now two days, the music and art extravaganza moves from Hyde Park to Oakwood Beach at 4100 S. Lake Shore Dr.
Seven local residents are among 14 chosen for the first Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab. The program is a collaboration between Theaster Gates’ Rebuild Foundation and the Prada Group.
The three-hour memorial opened with African drums and dance. More than two dozen people shared stories about the impact Black had on them and on Chicago, and there were several performances of jazz, which Black loved.
Shaoxiong “Dennis” Zheng’s mother, Li Rong, was among the last to speak at her son’s memorial service Thursday. “They say that someone who shines everywhere is an angel,” she said in Chinese. “Please, God, give my angel back.”
The victim, 25, was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center where he later died, police said.
For half a century, he taught great epics and allegories from ancient times to the Renaissance and was a scholar of fantasy and romance.
Maya-Camille Broussard says her theater background has prepared her for yet another platform.
The announcement Wednesday blamed “recent COVID-19 developments.”
The Hyde Park resident became ill despite having been vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to Marita Joyce Stricklin, his wife of 57 years.
Keith Cooper, 73, was running errands Wednesday when he was approached by Frank Harris, 18, and 17-year-old Dushawn Williams, in the 5300 Block of South Kimbark Avenue, Cook County prosecutors said.
After moving to Chicago from Vicksburg, Mississippi, he followed in his father’s footsteps as a dentist but also ran many businesses and was president of the Chicago Urban League.
Yiran Fan’s parents are set to receive his degree at the University of Chicago’s Beijing center in July.
In each incident, someone was approached by up to five men who struck them and drove off in their vehicle.
Charles Thomas successfully completed a court diversion program for first time felony offenders and the standard practice is to dismiss charges afterwards, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office said Friday.
Newly obtained police reports link the Glock handgun Jason Nightengale used in his Jan. 9 rampage to five other shootings on the South Side between 2009 and 2016.