Roseland

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


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 ...

Six Essex County towns brace for property-tax revaluations

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


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

No Safe Passage: Little Rock to Chicago

Bernardine Dohrn | Posted 10.07.2009 | Chicago


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?

Beating Death Of Derrion Albert, 16, Caught On Video

Huffington Post | Posted 11.27.2009 | Chicago


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

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

Chicago Breaking News | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago


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...

Man Claimed He Was God Before Killing Parents: Prosecutors

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


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...

Roseland Residents Criticize Obama On Urban Issues In Meeting With Burris

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


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 ...

Obama: The South Side Perspective

USA Today | Posted 10.27.2008 | Chicago


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. ...

Brother, Can You Spare an Apple?

Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago


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.

Obama's Old Office For Sale

Chicago Real Estate Daily | Posted 10.05.2008 | Chicago


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...