By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer The Murray Elementary School 7th and 8th grade boys’ basketball team won the 2013 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Elementary School City Championship. The team’s coach also won the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA) Coach of the Year Award. The Murray Wildcats beat Mason Elementary School 33 to 30. Before(…)
By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer Jaclyn McNamee, second grade teacher at St. Thomas the Apostle Elementary School, won a Heart of the School Award from the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office of Catholic Schools. McNamee was one of 16 elementary and secondary school teachers and staff members chosen for the annual award. The award is(…)
A majority of the respondents to a text poll conducted by the Hyde Park Herald in recent weeks reject the 13-story high-rise development proposed by Mesa Development LLC at the Mobil gas station and former Mcdonalds site across from Nichols Park, known as the McMobil site to Hyde Parkers. More than 60 percent of voters —(…)
By ANDREW HOLZMAN Herald Intern Seven students from area schools, including Kenwood Academy, 5015 S. Blackstone Ave., will travel this summer to Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa. The students are part of a faith-based after-school program called Young Life. The students will take a 24-hour plane ride this July to a summer camp in(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer Hyde Parkers should get in the habit of separating their glass, paper and aluminum from the rest of their trash. The city’s Blue Bin recycling program will expand in Hyde Park by the end of April. The Blue Bin program will service single-family homes and apartment buildings with up to(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer The legal battle for the protestors arrested outside the University of Chicago’s new Center for Care and Discovery last month has come to an end. Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY) posted a video announcing the conclusion to the legal process on its Facebook page last Friday afternoon. Alex Goldberg(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer A Hyde Park man was charged with one felony count of bank robbery on Monday, March 4, after allegedly taking $1,874 from Fifth Third Bank, 1420 E. 53rd St., on Friday, March 1. Robert D. Shaw, 54, of 527 E. 51st St., was charged with one count of bank robbery.(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer Students and other South Siders marched Saturday from 60th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue to University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer’s home on campus to demand expanded access to trauma care in Hyde Park. The march took place on the day the university opened operations at its $700 million hospital(…)