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Chicago Cares is a nonprofit organization that connects prospective volunteers with volunteer opportunities throughout Chicago. [1] [2] [3] It was founded in 1991 by Leslie Bluhm and Mary Prchal. [4] In addition to connecting volunteers to service programs, Chicago Cares offers a training called Power of Service. [5]
The forerunner of the Shomrim was the Maccabees, a Jewish patrol organization founded by Samuel Schrage in 1964 in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.While initially successful, it was disbanded at the end of the decade due to political pressure amid allegations of lack of oversight and tense relations with the African American community.
Washington Park is a community area on the South Side of Chicago which includes the 372 acre (1.5 km 2) park of the same name, [2] stretching east-west from Cottage Grove Avenue to the Dan Ryan Expressway, and north-south from 51st Street to 63rd.
Lincoln Park: 1,188 acres (481 ha) Chicago's largest city park. Located north of the Loop, this is one of the more distinctive parks in terms of geography, because while it is centrally located in the Lincoln Park community area, it spans many different neighborhoods on the north side. Marquette Park: Chicago Lawn: 315 acres (127 ha)
Welles Park is one of the 5 parks created by the Lincoln Park Commission and is named after Gideon Welles. [1] It is part of the City's park system administered by the Chicago Park District . A volunteer organization, The Welles Park Advisory Council helps support the park.
The original Hatzalah emergency medical services (EMS) was founded in Williamsburg, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, by Hershel Weber in the late 1960s. [3] His aim was to improve rapid emergency medical response in the community, and to mitigate cultural concerns of a Yiddish-speaking, Hasidic community.
The neighborhood is roughly bounded by 67th Street to the north, 71st Street to the south, Cregier Avenue to the west, and Jeffery Boulevard to the east. Directly north of the neighborhood lies the 18-hole Jackson Park Golf Course, a part of the Chicago Park District's Jackson Park, the third largest park in the city and home of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893.
Mount Greenwood is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago.The 74th numbered area, it is about 14 miles (23 km) southwest of the Loop.It is surrounded by the neighborhoods of Beverly and Morgan Park to the east, the suburb of Evergreen Park to the north, the suburb of Oak Lawn to the west, and the suburbs of Merrionette Park and Alsip to the south.