By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer Hyde Park Village announced its board of directors recently. On Dec. 10 the nominating committee, comprised of Margaret Huyck, Jane Ciacci, Marianne Crusius, Wallace Goode, Allison Hartman, Nina Helstein, Mary Rogel and George Rumsey, presented their suggestions to the founding committee. The nominating committee had previously spent several months interviewing(…)
By ANDREW HOLZMAN Herald Intern Even after a campaign season in which he made no appearances, Jesse Jackson Jr. won re-election to his seat as congressman for the second district, which includes a sliver of Hyde Park, with almost 80 percent of votes in the general election. Another South Side politician who represents far more(…)
By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer Kenwood Academy High School Counselor Shelby Wyatt is one of five finalists that will fly to Washington, D.C., for the American School Counselor Association’s Counselor of the Year Award. Wyatt, who has a background in business administration, began his career as a substitute teacher in 1987. He became a(…)
By ANDREW HOLZMAN Herald Intern Casual chit-chat and office banter at the University of Chicago president’s office was interrupted Friday when roughly two dozen students arrived to deliver a letter urging the university to divest from stock in companies which extract fossil fuels. Plain-clothes and uniformed police officers were on hand to receive the students,(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer The University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) and the 2nd District Police say they have stepped up their patrol in the area around 52nd and Greenwood Avenues, where a girl was sexually assaulted on Nov. 6. Though nobody is in custody yet police say they are still investigating the crime(…)