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The First Lady addresses a joint luncheon meeting in Chicago hosted by Mayor Rahm Emanuel that included members of Chicago’s leading civic organizations. Mrs… Video Rating: 4 / 5

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THEATER REVIEW: “Oliver” at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: “Oliver” at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook ★★★½ … Where you have kids working like this, of course, you have a gifted director. And so it is with Rachel Rockwell.     Full News here – The Theater Loop – chicagotribune.com

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First Lady Michelle Obama will wade into the gun control debate Wednesday, visiting a Chicago school hard hit by gun violence as the White House mounts a last-minute push for congressional action. She will attend a conference on youth violence with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and will meet with students at Harper High School, where [...]

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced an increase in summer job opportunities and recreational activities for Chicago’s youth. Full News here – Chicago news and local news video for the Chicago area from WLS-TV ABC7 Chicago

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‘American Idol’ finalist to make encore appearance at benefit for KidsMatterA Naperville nonprofit organization will use the occasion of its youth talent show later this month to honor a man considered by many to be a mentor and friend to children and their families. Full News here – Chicagoland – chicagotribune.com

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A Chicago Park District program called Windy City Hoops is keeping kids off the streets and scoring big points with teenagers. Full News here – Chicago news and local news video for the Chicago area from WLS-TV ABC7 Chicago

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THEATER REVIEW: “How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence” by Steppenwolf for Young Adults ★★½ THEATER REVIEW: “How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence” by Steppenwolf for Young Adults ★★½ Full News here – The Theater Loop – chicagotribune.com

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Reporting by Joy White The city of Chicago saw its deadliest January in over a decade in 2013, according to the Associated Press, amassing over 40 homicides. In response to the recent rash of killings, a group of organizers launched a project called Uproar Chicago. The goal? A community-curated audio collage about gun violence. The [...]

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If you’ve recently heard about black youth in news reports, it’s likely that you recall reading about gun violence or crime. But was the perspective of at least one black youth included in what you read or watched? Probably not. Instead, we usually see portraits and mugshots packaged with blippy soundbites about drugs, crime or [...]

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Some 47,000 LGBTQ young adults gather in the same space at the same time. This happens at TrevorSpace, an online social networking site dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth. TrevorSpace is an adjunct of the Trevor Project, an organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention for LGBTQ young adults. Named after [...]

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More than 1,000 people gathered to mourn the death of the young rising star. A person who had already begun to commit their life to change, and was making a difference in their community. Their death has caught the president’s attention and is being labeled a symbol of escalating violence in Chicago. If you’re thinking [...]

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The city of Chicago will provide an additional $ 2 million to expand a violence reduction program that has been shown to be effective in research by the University of Chicago Crime Lab, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Feb. 7. Emanuel made the… Full News here – UChicago News

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(CBS) – The death toll of young Chicagoans to urban violence appears to be taking a toll on the mayor. In the days since the murder of 15 year-old Hadiya Pendleton, Rahm Emanuel has twice been overcome with emotion. On Thursday, there were tears in his eyes as he talked about violence plaguing inner-city youth. [...]

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ENGLEWOOD — For the last three years Sunni Powell has watched from his barbershop window as young black males walked around with their pants hanging off their butt, selling drugs and standing on the corner all day. “I tell them all the time to pull up their pants, but I doubt if they’re listening because [...]

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A new lawsuit likens procedures used in Illinois to revoke parole for juveniles to “kangaroo courts” that unlawfully detain more than 1,000 young people each year.The Roderick MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University Law School filed the class-action lawsuit Wednesday. It names Illinois Prisoner Review Board Chairman Adam Monreal and Gov. Pat Quinn. Full News [...]

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