To the Editor: The Herald has been conscientiously publishing the variety of letters it receives commenting about the prospect of building an Obama Center in historic Jackson Park. Notably, the letters from supporters of that project have been almost entirely an emotional repetition of the same false PR talking points without ever acknowledging and […]
To the Editor: As a taxpayer, I want the Obama Foundation to know that I refuse to pay $174 million to turn four acres of Cornell Drive into an east lawn for the Obama Presidential Center. A thousand times as many people view Wooded Island and the stand of centuries old trees from their […]
HERALD STAFF REPORT Chicago Police detectives are seeking a suspect with a unique hair style after he followed a 16-year-old and showed him a video of the suspect performing a sex act. Sometime between 7:15 and 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 4, the suspect began following the juvenile as he walked on the 4700 South […]
BY JOSEPH PHILLIPS Sports writer The Kenwood boys basketball team split its first two games of the regular season, losing 53-52 to St. Rita High School, but rebounding to defeat Englewood Urban Prep 74-41 on Wednesday at the Riverside Brookfield Thanksgiving tournament. The victory was the first for new Broncos head coach Justin Bowen. […]
BY JOSEPH PHILLIPS Sports writer The Kenwood girls basketball improved to 4-0 on the season with a 70-47 victory over Lindblom in the championship game of the Township Top-off Classic Basketball Tournament. The Lady Broncos were outscored 18-16 in the first quarter but came back with a 17-7 second quarter to build a 33-25 […]
To the Editor: Neither former President Obama nor the Lakeside Alliance has publicized a coherent plan of the Obama Presidential Center. For example, the chairman of the Plan Commission did their entire presentation to that body, except for five minutes of presentation by Billie Tsien, the architect. Nature abhors a vacuum, so someone at […]
HERALD STAFF REPORT The University of Chicago’s Consortium of School Research recently published a report that shows English Learners who start in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in Kindergarten progress to eighth grade with similar or better academic achievement than their peers who are proficient in English. “Available public data provides an incomplete picture of […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff writer Incentive pay, in which workers are paid wages to work additional shifts, was the last logjam in union-administration contract negotiations at the University of Chicago Medical Center. The union sought to keep the practice for new hires while the administration called it outdated but offered to keep it for […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff writer On Sept. 23, a man named Bruce Holmgren allegedly attacked Orin Frasier, a congregant at the Vineyard Church of Hyde Park, raving at him as he was picking up tree branches outside the church, as first reported by CBS 2 News. The church, 5333 S. Greenwood Ave., had known […]
By SAMANTHA SMYLIE Staff writer To fulfill shoppers’ needs for the upcoming holiday season and build support for small local businesses, the South East Chicago Commission (SECC) has launched its annual holiday “Shop Local” campaign with 56 businesses located in Hyde Park, Kenwood, Oakland and Washington Park, Woodlawn. “This is an exciting year. We’ve […]
Longtime creative writing teacher and cat-lover HERALD STAFF REPORT Mary Christine Hooper, a long time Kenwood resident, died peacefully at the age of 79 after a lengthy illness on Nov. 13. She was born on Nov. 22, 1940, and attended the University of Chicago. She spent her career edited the creative writing endeavors of others […]
To the Editor: On Nov. 22, the Jackson Park Advisory Council and the Chicago Park District held the Annual Turkey Trot Race; 60 youth, aged 6 to 13, participated. Their determination to win was matched only by the joy on the faces of the girls and boys who won in each age division. Every […]
To the Editor: The east four acres of the proposed OPC site is the most used stretch of Cornell Drive which had just been widened when I moved into Jackson Towers in 1955. Instead of leaving the parkway and providing a pedestrian bridge or tunnel, which would cost $500,000, the city, state and park […]
To the Editor: In comments at their latest summit, Michelle Obama described the section of Jackson Park slated to become the site of the Obama Presidential Center as “underutilized.” I think this is an unfair assessment, as that part of the park is, in fact, frequently used by local residents, who take advantage of […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff writer Mayor Lori Lightfoot anticipates passing affordable housing legislation in early 2020, with the plan finalized by the end of the year but she is not committed to passing the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) ordinance Alds. Leslie Hairston (5th) and Jeanette Taylor (20th) have introduced. All three elected officials say […]