BLACKS FINDING AIDS CROSSES COLOR LINES
Before Charles Willis was diagnosed as having AIDS, he thought it was a white homosexual disease. ''You know how in college it was almost always the white kids who got...
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WASHINGTON AGENDA FACES PROBLEMS
Mayor Harold Washington`s unfinished agenda of budget restraint, political reform and economic revival will suffer rejection and temporary setbacks without his strong political presence, observers predicted Thursday. While the day-to-day...
IT`S `LIKE LOSING A BLACK FOLK HERO`
No matter what they didn`t have, the students of Du Sable High School had this: Harold Washington, the mayor of Chicago, was one of them. ''Nat King Cole went here,...
CHICAGO AIDS CLINIC SHORT ON HELP, MONEY, TIME
Bill Belzner tries to keep his workweek under 50 hours, but he seldom succeeds. As AIDS services coordinator at Howard Brown Memorial Clinic, he must make sure the 230 AIDS...
SCHOOLS OPEN FOR ALMOST ANYTHING, EXCEPT CLASSES
As both sides in the school strike remained pessimistic Saturday about opening classes by Monday, the Chicago Board of Education-selectively and gradually-planned on opening schools for several other activities. First...
DROPOUT INCENTIVE SEEN IN STRIKE
The dropout rate in Chicago public schools-which hovers around 50 percent and reaches 65 and 75 percent in some black and Hispanic neighborhoods-is likely to increase due to the teachers...
TEACHERS REJECT LATEST OFFER
The Chicago Board of Education has offered the Chicago Teachers Union a one-time bonus of eight-tenths of 1 percent in salary starting in January, plus the restoration of three unpaid...
IN SUBURBS, TAX HIKES PREVENT STRIKES
One method that Chicago school officials have not discussed in trying to obtain more funds to finance education is the one that every other school district in the state considers...
NO PROGRESS IN SCHOOL STRIKE DESPITE PLEADING FROM PARENTS
Parents and community groups stepped up pressure on the Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union on Saturday as talks crept along for 10 hours before being called...
A LESSON LEARNED AT LAST?
The dubious tradition of political grandstand plays to resolve Chicago teachers` contracts might finally be in jeopardy. It is an 18-year tradition that has been upheld with equal vigor by...