Thursday, May 1, 2025

Search results for keyword: Housing found in 283 News.

obituaries
  • by david hall
Elaine Pierce, who opened her Oak Park home to migrants, has died at 69

Annie Gomberg, a volunteer who helps migrants and connected her with the families she took in, called her "a moral exemplar for our time." "She was more than a friend, more like a mother," said one of the people to whom she opened her home.

suburban-chicago
  • by david hall
Evanston’s reparations program violates equal protection in U.S. Constitution, lawsuit claims

The conservative group Judicial Watch filed a class action arguing that Evanston’s first-in-the-nation reparations plan violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment because it uses race as a requirement for eligibility.

real-estate
  • by david hall
ComEd flips the switch on Bronzeville microgrid in latest push for electric power

Leaders including state Sen. Dick Durbin applauded the move as a path toward sustainability as weather threats and climate change become more common throughout Illinois.

city-hall
  • by david hall
Mayor's RTA board nominee withdraws, denounces critics as 'opponents of African American empowerment'

The Rev. Ira Acree accused two Chicago City Council members who voted against his nomination of holding him to a higher standard than what's been applied to previous appointments to mass transit boards, many who had no mass transit expertise.