Thousands beefing up business skills in Chicago MBA programs ... before economic recovery begins

Waiting for change

09/01/2010

If you are planning to take the GMAT, or Graduate Management Admission Test, in order to join over 18,000 MBA students in Chicago who are beefing up their skills for a rough job market, you may want to reconsider – for the sake of the economy.
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Condo sales up

New construction running ahead of 2009

09/01/2010

As bleak as Chicago’s new-construction condominium market looks, there are a few rays of sunshine filtering through the gloom, real estate analysts say.
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Parents: Smyth not good enough

Issues of poor performance at neighborhood school drive parents’ request for expanded choice

08/25/2010

A grumble is rising in certain areas of the University Village among parents with children assigned to the John M. Smyth Elementary School. As families with school-age children continue to move into the redeveloped South Loop, school space is becoming scarce at nearby magnet schools.
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Park expands life in West Loop

Years in the making, Adams and Sangamon Park opens

08/25/2010

With some old-school fanfare of speeches, a Boy Scout color guard and a few brass instruments, Adams and Sangamon Park officially opened Saturday and, in doing so, added more open space to the West Loop.
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Strike called off

Local 73 says UIC moved a little closer to tentative agreement

08/25/2010

With the largest labor strike of the Obama presidency days away, University of Illinois-Chicago leadership late last week budged from its zero-pay-increase stance and closer to a tentative agreement with Local 73 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
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Church moving to new home

Five-year lease with future options expected to expand the South Loop Community Church

08/25/2010

Sunday will be the last time 70 parishioners of South Loop Community Church settle into their seats at the Sherwood Auditorium in the 1300 block of South Michigan Avenue — a tight fit for their gathering. The temporary Sunday service quarters, used for nine years, will soon be left behind for life in a more inclusive whole-church space on South State Street.
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Community organizers use old school street ball for neighborhood change

Hoops agency

08/25/2010

Web Extra! Slideshow
Alvaro Obregon has been running a street basketball program for 11 years and has never played a game. Accordingly, it should come as no surprise that Obregon had no idea that basketball was invented to give young men something productive to do. In fact, he said if it weren’t for the love of basketball shown by the kids in Chicago neighborhoods, he would prefer to run a baseball league.
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Summer strummer

08/25/2010

A musician is silhouette by the afternoon sun as he plays a guitar and sings in a tunnel under Lake Shore Dr. as a beach goer heads to North Avenue Beach.
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Chicago program retrains the 'forgotten' middle class

Jobless wanted

08/25/2010

An uncommon program retraining Chicago’s out-of-work middle class is looking for new recruits to fill a second class just as the inaugural session wraps up.
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UIC workers blast school

At issue: reclassification of civil service jobs

08/18/2010

Union leaders representing University of Illinois-Chicago employees testified before a special state senate hearing last week that campus administrators have for 10 years wrongly reclassified hundreds of traditional civil service jobs as “academic professional” positions, a tactic they said was tantamount to union busting.
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