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Evanston/Skokie School District 65 celebrated the grand opening of Foster Elementary School Friday in festivities attended by hundreds. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was preceded by speeches from community members who fought to bring a neighborhood school back to the historically Black Fifth Ward after the closure of the original Foster School in 1979. “This day exists […] ‘This day exis
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The nearly century-old tradition started by Chicago Defender founder Robert S. Abbott drew joyful crowds in Bronzeville again Saturday as summer entered its closing weeks.
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Nash Elementary teacher Hailey Rodden plans to open Florals by Hailey in the fall and eventually expand it to a full retail shop.
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Restaurateur Esam Hani credits his longtime staff with Cafe Con Leche's longevity and the growth of his hospitality group “one door at a time."
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Jerome Summers leaned on a cane as he joined hundreds of others watching the ceremony marking the opening of the new Foster School. But this day might have never happened without him. Summers was on the District 65 school board from 2005 to 2013. He was the only board member who pushed for a new […] Original Foster School alumnus ‘humbled’ and ‘thankful’ by new school