Excitement is mounting on East 63rd Street. Why? The grand opening of the dazzling new shared-use campus for the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School and the Hyde Park Day School, two affiliates of U of C. The much anticipated Ribbon Cutting and Community Celebration will take place on April 27. The Orthogenic School (SSOS) is a […]
Violence on the street and chaos at home was the only life high school freshman Anays Antongiorgi knew. That all changed when she became active in Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development (BUILD), a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that takes at-risk youth from the margin into the mainstream. Antongiorgi bonded with BUILD staff and her peers […]
Each fall for 25 years, musical purists and collectors traipsed to the parking lot of Old Orchard Center, where a yellow tent promised rare finds in LPs, old 78s, 45s, 8-tracks and cassettes. Until the age of compact discs (and, really, until digital formatting and MP3s achieved their grand takeover), the Mammoth Music Mart offered […]
Budgeting is important for every family, and parents need new ways to save in order to set money aside for the future. One solution is to make a list of extra weekly purchases, and see how that daily latte and occasional lunch out really add up. Then, you’ll see how much you could save by […]
