AGENCIES TRY TO KEEP KIDS BUSY
The city`s Department of Human Services, the Chicago Public Library and Operation PUSH are among public and private agencies offering public school children alternatives to classes, which were canceled for...
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SOME OPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR IDLE STUDENTS
The city`s Department of Human Services, the Chicago Public Library and Operation PUSH are among those stepping in to provide Chicago public school children with alternatives to their regular classrooms,...
MONEY`S THERE, BUT IT`S WASTED, CITIZENS GROUP TELLS CITY SCHOOLS
The Chicago Board of Education could balance its budget and give employees ''a moderate salary increase,'' if it would cut administrative expenses and project a more accurate estimate of its...
COURT LIFTS PRESS POLICY AT HOSPITAL
Cook County Hospital was ordered by a federal court Thursday to suspend a policy that requires employees to receive clearance before talking to reporters. Calling the policy ''absolutely unconstitutional,'' U.S....
FRIENDS REMEMBER RAFT VICTIMS
It was the beginning of a long and grievous goodbye for the friends, families and co-workers who gathered at a memorial service Monday for the three Chicago-area advertising executives who...
FIELDS TO SPONSOR FUNDRAISER FOR AIDS
Marshall Field & Co. will sponsor an AIDS benefit with a cast of stars at the Chicago Theatre on Sept. 27 in an effort to raise $1 million for research,...
RACE, INCOME CALLED KEY TO SCHOOL FAILURE
Low-income and minority students in the Chicago area receive educations so inferior to those provided to white students that poor black and Hispanic students are crippled in their efforts to...
HATE CAMPAIGN SPREADS BEYOND U. OF C. CAMPUS
The heated ideological discussions that enrich college life degenerated this year into a campaign of cruel harassment at the University of Chicago. The actions--including threatening phone calls and letters, damaging...
POOR GETTING POORER IN SCHOOL-AID SYSTEM
Jarita Berry, a 4th-grader in Oak Park Elementary School on Aurora`s East Side, would like to learn how to play a musical instrument. But at her school, music means 20...
U. OF I. GAY RIGHTS POLICY NEAR
University of Illinois trustees are expected this week to adopt a systemwide policy prohibiting discrimination against gay and lesbian students, employees and faculty members. ''It`s in everyone`s best interest,'' said...