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The University of Chicago Crime Lab and Education Lab recently evaluated the program, which serves youth ages 13 to 18, and found significant reductions in violent behavior. According to Kim Smith ...
Young Chicago Authors is a non-profit organization that promotes young writers and performers in the greater Chicagoland area. They are known for their Rooted & Radical (R&R) youth poetry festival which was previously called Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB). Famous past participants include Chance the Rapper, Nate Marshall, Kevin Coval, Eve Ewing ...
Coordinates: 41°57′07.6″N 87°50′38.4″W. Using the pump in 1964. The Schiller Woods magic water pump is a public water pump at Schiller Woods Forest Preserve in Chicago, Illinois. Its water is believed by many local residents to have magical properties, improving health and vigor. [1][2] Some believe that the pump's water extends the ...
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago is a policy research institution at the University of Chicago that focuses on child welfare and family well-being. [1] Chapin Hall is funded through social service systems, [2] foundations, [3] and non-profit organizations. [4] The organization's focus areas include child welfare and foster care systems ...
April 17, 2023 at 11:15 AM. After hundreds of teenagers and young adults descended on the Loop in downtown Chicago over the weekend, destroying cars and brawling in the streets, Mayor-elect ...
Margaret Beale Spencer is an American psychologist whose work centers on the effects of ethnicity, gender, and race on youth and adolescent development. She currently serves as the Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. [1]
GoodKids MadCity Englewood (GKMC-E) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It was founded by Chicago youth in 2018 with the aim to be an anti-gun violence group. [1] GKMC-E organizes youth engagement events, community service projects, and conducts workforce development programs. [1] [2] [3]
The Days of Rage were a series of protests during three days in October 1969 in Chicago, organized by the emerging Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The group planned the October 8–11 event as a "National Action" built around John Jacobs' slogan "bring the war home", [1] which grew out of a resolution drafted by ...