The climate tipping point | Opinion | hpherald.com
Dec 9, 2024 · Of course, climate migrants will not be limited to Florida and Arizona; much of the equatorial world may be looking north. What is certain is that Chicago and Illinois will be in com petition with the rest of the northern temperate zone to attract the best and the brightest of the millions of global climate refugees over the next generation -- a demographic phenomenon unlike anything since the ...
Photo: Augustana hosts vigil for gun violence victims
Dec 18, 2024 · Community members light candles in honor of gun violence victims during an annual vigil at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 S. Woodlawn Ave., on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024.
Barbara Taylor Bowman, Erikson Institute cofounder, dies at 96
Nov 26, 2024 · Barbara Taylor Bowman, a pioneering force in early childhood education and co-founder of Erikson Institute, passed away on November 4, 2024, at the age of 96. Her death marks the loss of an extraordinary woman whose life and work shaped generations of educators, leaders and advocates dedicated to ...
Federal complaint accuses U. of C. of anti-Palestinian discrimination
Oct 7, 2024 · For the past year, hundreds of students and many faculty have engaged in a series of demonstrations and protests demanding that the university divest from weapons manufacturers arming Israel in its war on Gaza, which has killed at least 41,870 people as of press time, be more transparent with its investments and publicly acknowledge a genocide in Gaza.
‘Fidelio’: Lyric updates Beethoven’s opera of courage, love and …
Sep 30, 2024 · The concept of director Matthew Ozawa, who became Lyric’s first ever chief artistic administration officer in 2022, is represented by a huge cube on a turntable.
hpherald.com - Hyde Park Herald
Dec 20, 2024 · With a cool 78-49 win over Lane Tech High School last week, the Kenwood Academy girls basketball team is on an eight-game winning streak. But even with a solid 12-1 record this season, not everyone on the team is happy.
Hyde Park Jazz Festival's future in jeopardy | Evening Digest ...
Sep 24, 2024 · This weekend, the jazz festival, now in its 18th year, will play host to 36 bands and solo acts at a dozen venues across Hyde Park. Since its inaugural showcase in 2007, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival has swelled in size, drawing as many as 20,000 people to the mid-South Side in recent years while never charging a penny for entry (donations are, however, welcomed).
Kenwood football heads back to city championship
Nov 20, 2024 · Kenwood Academy is headed back to the city’s football championship this weekend. On the upswing after a season of ups and downs, the Broncos bested Lincoln Park High School 15-11 in the Nov. 16 Chicago Public League semifinals.
2 years after fire, Harper Square Cooperative moves to return …
Nov 25, 2024 · Francine Baker has lived in limbo since January 2023, when a deadly fire broke out in the Harper Square Cooperative, 4850 S. Lake Park Ave., her residence of almost 30 years.She is one of more than 100 co-op residents displaced by the fire who have not been able to return to their homes in almost two years.
Bill to phase out subminimum wage for disabled workers clears …
Nov 21, 2024 · House Bill 793, if signed by the governor, would prohibit businesses and other residential facilities in Illinois from claiming an exemption allowing them to pay workers with disabilities less than minimum wage.. The exemption is known as a 14(c) certificate, named after the section of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 permitting lower wages.