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Pathway to Adventure Council is a Boy Scouts of America local council headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Created from the merger of four councils, it now spans over a large portion of Chicago metropolitan area and part of Northwest Indiana. The council operates two camps and four service centers and has over 21,000 youth members. [1]
Dec. 2—SUPERIOR — One of the first graduates from the Superior Police Department's Pathways to Hope program has been hired as a peer support specialist for the drug diversion program. Brianna ...
The Oriental continued to be a vital part of Chicago's theater district into the 1960s, but patronage declined in the 1970s. Late in the decade, the theater survived by showing exploitation films . It closed in 1971, the last film shown at the theatre being the action film The Female Bunch , [ 4 ] and its lobby was refitted as a retail TV and ...
The first indication that you're not seeing a run-of-the-mill stage production of Alice in Wonderland is when the White Rabbit appears suspended 30 feet over the stage and does a somersault ...
Symphony Center is a music complex located at 220 South Michigan Avenue in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois.Home to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO); Chicago Symphony Chorus; Civic Orchestra of Chicago; and the Institute for Learning, Access, and Training; Symphony Center includes the 2,522-seat Orchestra Hall, which dates from 1904; Buntrock Hall, a rehearsal and performance space named ...
Washington Park (formerly Western Division of South Park, also Park No. 21) is a 372-acre (1.5 km 2) [2] park between Cottage Grove Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, (originally known as "Grand Boulevard") located at 5531 S. Martin Luther King Dr. in the Washington Park community area on the South Side of Chicago.
Union Park is a municipal park in Chicago, Illinois, comprising 13.46 acres (5.45 ha). [1]Located in the Near West Side, the park is just south of Ashland/Lake station on the Green and Pink lines of the Chicago 'L', bordered by North Ashland Avenue on the west, West Lake Street on the north, the diagonal North Ogden Avenue along most of the east border, and West Washington Boulevard on the south.
After the area was developed by nearby factory workers in the 1870s, it was incorporated into the city of Chicago in 1889 along with the Hyde Park Township. [1] [4] In the 1940s, the factory workers were replaced by white collar residents. [4] By the 1970s, the neighborhood had earned a reputation for affluence and quality residences.