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Award-winning Author for Immigrants’ Fights to Give Freeman Lecture on April 25 at Roosevelt University

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2016.  Margaret Regan, an award-winning journalist and author whose life’s work has been to raise awareness and make change to draconian U.S. immigration practices, will deliver a lecture on the horrors that growing numbers of immigrants and their families face at 12:30 p.m. Monday, April 25 in Roosevelt’s[Read More…]

Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute to be Player in Cook County’s First Restorative Justice Court

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2016.  Roosevelt University’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation is celebrating a decision by the Cook County Circuit Court to create the county’s first Restorative Justice Community Court in Chicago. An advocate for community solutions, justice reform and a leader in moving restorative justice forward in the[Read More…]

Park Forest Police Blotter Reports April 14, 2016

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other local media. An arrest does not mean that[Read More…]

Local Law Firms Support Student Legal Services at DePaul University

Endowment campaign raises more than $100,000 The Rev. Thomas M. Croak, C.M., founding director of Croak Student Legal Services, and current director Sarah Baum at the program’s Lincoln Park office. A recent endowment campaign has raised more than $100,000 to support the program. (DePaul University/Jeff Carrion) CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2016. [Read More…]

Roosevelt University’s Israel Vargas honored for Promoting College to Inner City Youths

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2016.  Israel Vargas, director of community outreach at Roosevelt University, has been honored as education leader of the year by Minds Matter Chicago, a nonprofit that runs a significant tutoring program for disadvantaged youths. A mentor to Minds Matter Chicago teens, Vargas is responsible for growing a partnership[Read More…]

Union Street Gallery Announces 3rd Annual Derby Day Social

CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—Union Street Gallery’s third annual Derby Day Social is quickly approaching. It will be held at Olympia Fields Country Club, 2800 Country Club Drive, on May 7th from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Derby Tickets are currently available for $65 each. Contact the gallery for more information on how to purchase tickets[Read More…]

Noted Writer Tom Williams to Read at Roosevelt University on April 18

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 12, 2016.  Tom Williams, whose book Among the Wild Mulattos was named one of the best of 2015 by National Public Radio, will read from his work at 5 p.m. Monday, April 18 in Roosevelt University’s seventh floor Gage Building, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. “You could call (Williams)[Read More…]

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