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Hundreds of West Side community members attended a second CPS meeting in the Austin-North Lawndale Network hours after the list was made public Wednesday, urging that their school be spared.
The Praxis Marketplace grocery store and large-scale food production center is expected to open in 2014 and create more than 600 jobs in the community.
The principal said the school has plans to create a violence prevention project on the West Side.
Friendship Baptist Church was nearly filled to its 900-person capacity Thursday night for Chicago Public Schools’ school closures meeting in the Austin-North Lawndale Network.
The group called for no school shutdowns Thursday night at Friendship Baptist Church at the first of two CPS Austin-North Lawndale Network community meetings.
Disabled veteran Homer Bizzle shares the positive work of America Cares Too and the challenges of finding funding for its mission.
More than 200 students called on the school’s leadership to listen to their concerns.
EZ Pawn is set to be the fifth North Avenue pawn shop between Ridgeland and Hayes Avenues.
CPS will hold two community meetings Jan. 31 and Feb. 13 in the Austin-North Lawndale network for feedback about what neighborhood schools could close.
A Bethel New Life training program is providing funding and education to 30 entrepreneurs on Chicago’s West Side.