By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer With only one week to figure out how to stretch smaller budgets at schools with increasing populations, public schools in Hyde Park are hosting meetings and inviting the community to discuss and review their preliminary budgets. Since Chicago Public Schools’ (CPS) announcement of school closings in May, there seems(…)
By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer Nell Kemp, 7th grade science teacher at Kenwood Academy High School’s Academic Center, is taking a trip to Alaska to study the influence of wolf spiders on the structure and function of food webs in the Arctic. From June 27 to Aug. 3, Kemp will work with a team(…)
By MARIA CASTELLUCCI Herald Intern The Hyde Park Historical Society will host its annual History Fair Program June 22 at the Lutheran School of Theology, 5500 E. 55th St., honoring students’ excellence for their historical projects. The honored students were winners at the Chicago Metro History Fair and presented projects that are about Hyde Park(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer The Hyde Park Art Center’s newest artist-in-residence is hoping to bring people together and maybe facilitate new friends and ideas. HPAC summer artist-in-residence Jen Delos Reyes and Green Lantern Press will host a public session of “Speed Ideating” around content from their collaboration book “Service Media.” Speed Ideating follows the(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer Cook County Board President and former Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th) is running for her second term in her current office. Preckwinkle was elected to the board in 2010. She served the Fourth Ward as alderman for four terms. Preckwinkle told supporters on Tuesday, June 11, that she sought another term(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer Two students were reported missing by Chicago Police on Friday. Naomi Knight, 18, was last seen on the 6100 block of South Woodlawn Avenue on Monday, June 10 at 7:15 a.m. She was last seen wearing a pink and white striped top, blue jeans, light brown Timberland boots and a(…)
By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS StaffWriter The I Twirl Dance Programs held its first school dance recital Friday, June 7, at The Ancona School. The program will host its community dance recital on June 22. I Twirl is a ballet-based dance program that also offers other types of dance including Hip Hop, Latin and Broadway Jazz.(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer Casual learners interested in taking a University of Chicago class but not taking out student loans or reenrolling in college have the opportunity to study at the university for free. The university has partnered with Coursera, a company that offers free, notfor- credit courses from colleges and universities online. Two(…)