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Neighborhood School Carver Will Be Opened To Some Fenger Students Following Derrion Albert's Death

Chicago Breaking News | Azam Ahmed | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Altgeld Gardens, Youth Violence, Derrion Albert, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago School Violence, Fenger High School, Roseland, Cps, Carver Academy, Chicago Gang Violence, Chicago News

Chicago Public Schools announced today it will open enrollment at a South Side military academy for students who no longer want to attend Fenger High ...

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Six Essex County towns brace for property-tax revaluations

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.12.2009 | Home

Read More: West Caldwell-New Jersey, Cedar Grove, Verona, West Orange, Roseland, Bloomfield, Home News

Bloomfield, Cedar Grove, Roseland, Verona, West Caldwell and West Orange -- remain to finish revalulations in 2010 and 2011 ...

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No Safe Passage: Little Rock to Chicago

Bernardine Dohrn | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Human Rights, Derrion Albert, Chicago Public Schools, Juvenile Justice, Chicago School Reform, South Side of Chicago, Education Reform, Race, Civil Rights, Robert Yummy Sandifer, Fenger High School, Roseland, Chicago News
Bernardine Dohrn

Remember the eight extraordinary students in Little Rock who ultimately required the presence of troops for their safe passage into the school they finally integrated? Where was Derrion Albert's safe passage?

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Beating Death Of Derrion Albert, 16, Caught On Video

Huffington Post | Posted 11.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Video, Fenger High School, Roseland, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago Gang Violence, Derrion Albert, Derrion Albert Video, Derrion Albert Murder, Silvanus Shannon, Eric Carson, Eugene Riley, Derrion Albert Beating, Eugene Bailey, Chicago News

UPDATE: Four teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in Derrion Albert's beating death. Silvanus Shannon, 19, Eugene Riley, 18, and Eric...

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Derrion Albert, 16, Beaten To Death In 'Mob Action'

Chicago Breaking News | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Gangster Disciples, Derrion Albert, Rev. Victor Grandberry, Chicago-Illinois, Fenger High School, Chicago Gang Violence, Roseland, Chicago News

Family and friends believe 16-year-old Derrion Albert was beaten to death by other teens because he resisted joining a gang that was forming near Feng...

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Man Claimed He Was God Before Killing Parents: Prosecutors

Chicago Sun-Times | RUMMANA HUSSAIN | Posted 09.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Bernard Simmons, Bernard Simmons Kills Parents, Geraldine Simmons, Roseland, Bernard Smith, Chicago News

Bernard Simmons had started "yelling and cursing" at his family for using a childhood nickname just minutes after he was reunited with them after eigh...

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Roseland Residents Criticize Obama On Urban Issues In Meeting With Burris

Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 05.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Obama Urban Policy Office, Roseland, Mark Allen, Roland Burris, Obama Community Organizer, Obama Urban Policy, Barack Obama, Chicago News

President Obama got his start as a community organizer in Roseland, but a few dozen residents gathered there Saturday gave the new commander-in-chief ...

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Obama: The South Side Perspective

USA Today | Posted 10.27.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Washington Park, Black Chicago, Roseland, Obama Washington Park, Obama South Side, Obama Chicago Neighborhoods, Barack Obama, Obama Hyde Park, Chicago News

Catherine Haskins is 36 and has never bothered to vote in a presidential election. She says that will change Nov. 4 when she votes for Barack Obama. ...

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Brother, Can You Spare an Apple?

Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Chicago Food Choices, Fresh Food and Cities, Food Choices, Poverty, Roseland, Public Health, American Food Deserts, Food Deserts, National Food Desert Awareness Month, Grocery Stores, South Side Food Desert, Food, Chicago Food Deserts, Community Organizing, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

Can the market do well by doing some good? Why not? In Chicago alone we have identified a half-million-plus people who live in a Food Desert with no or distant grocery stores but nearby access to fast food.

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Obama's Old Office For Sale

Chicago Real Estate Daily | Posted 10.05.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Holy Rosary Church for Sale, Holy Rosary Church, Roseland, Obama Office for Sale, Obama Church Office, Obama Office, Obama Real Estate, Barack Obama, Obama Holy Rosary Church, Chicago News

A Roseland Catholic church and rectory where Barack Obama once had an office are on the market, Chicago Real Estate Daily reports. CB Richard Ellis I...

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