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Since 2009, the Chicago Botanic Garden's urban agriculture and jobs training initiative has a 91% job placement rate six months after graduation through its apprenticeship program.
Three 2.5-hour sessions will be held at City Colleges locations, starting July 22 at Malcolm X College. A fourth roundtable, open only to ages 13 to 24, will be at the Harold Washington Library.
Many current and former City Council members said U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall's sentence struck the appropriate balance between discouraging political corruption and showing the mercy they believed Burke had earned from his many acts of kindness.
A beautiful early summer day in Chicago sees the former lion of the City Council get a two-year prison term.