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More than 50 Chicago area faith leaders will gather Tuesday to urge voters to support the fair tax amendment being pushed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. The ministers, representing about 500 churches, say a vote in support of the amendment, which would allow the state to replace its flat income tax with a graduated rate, would help the poor and working class who disproportionately spend more money on taxes than the wealthy.
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There’s a lot at stake for Adam Ballard and Horacio Esparza. The two Chicago-area men are disabled and rely on programs whose funding is determined by how many people get counted every 10 years in the U.S. Census.
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There will be plenty of fresh produce available on Thursdays from 1 to 6 p.m. at the weekly Forty Acres Fresh Market. Every Thursday through the end of October at Austin Town Hall, 5610 W. Lake St., you can find Black-owned farm-fresh produce, delicious juices and table-ready meals.
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When they started, the garden was a literal dump. Seven years ago, Patricia Hart and her husband, Robert, moved into their house in Austin.
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About 100 people gathered at Columbus Park Sunday for a morning bike ride to promote social justice and boost participation in this year's U.S. Census, which a judge last week decided to extend for another month. Before riders set off on the more 10-mile round trip to Maywood and back, Donald Dew, president and CEO of Habilitative Systems Inc., which spearheads the Counting on Chicago Coalition, called on people to fill out the census.
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Early Monday morning six men met in Columbus Park for a free workout organized by the men’s fitness group F3. Led by retired rugby player Josh Andersson, the group launched in Chicago three years ago in the Loop.
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Sharita Galloway, a former nurse and mother of four, sorts through a pile of papers at a conference table at the Institute for Nonviolence on Chicago’s West Side. Among the paperwork: her son Elijah Sims’ death certificate, multiple letters from the Illinois attorney general's office, a funeral director’s report and documentation from her former employer.
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Over the summer a group of young people gathered over Zoom to develop a quality-of-life plan for Austin’s youth. The project was organized by Territory, an organization that focuses on “youth empowerment, building of community and teamwork,” said Helen Slade, the group's executive director.
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Saran Howell - one of hundreds of applicants vying for 75 pot dispensary store licenses being doled out by the state - didn't make it to the next round, and she's not happy about that. Howell, her husband, her sister and her sister’s wife had hoped to be named a finalist for the lottery, the next step in awarding the so-called "social equity" licenses.
