University of Illinois at Chicago

UIC Workers Will Strike Starting May 30

Posted 05.27.2012

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More than 80 percent of University of Illinois Chicago medical support staff will engage in a three-day strike starting May 30 unless they reach a new...

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UIC Workers Agree To Strike: Hundreds Of Support Staff Will Walk Out

Posted 05.11.2012

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More than 80 percent of University of Illinois Chicago medical support staff voted to strike if management refuses to offer them wage increases. A ...

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UIC Workers Union To Vote On Strike After Contract Negotiations Stall

Posted 05.07.2012

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Roughly 500 workers at the University of Illinois at Chicago will decide whether to strike this week after months of unproductive contract negotiation...

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Tenure-Track and Adjuncts Unite! Administration Says: You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Union

Lennard Davis | Posted 02.01.2012

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Who should have a right to determine union membership -- the boss or the employees? The administration of the University of Illinois should stop trying to divide and conquer its faculty and come to the table to begin collective bargaining in good faith.

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The Big Myth About Chicago Violence

Zack Isaacs | Posted 05.25.2011

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Zack Isaacs

After surviving the blizzard of 2011, it is fair to say that Chicagoans have suffered with cabin fever. But it is not fair to blame the recent spike in violence on warm weather.

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WATCH: UIC Upsets #12 Illinois

AP | RICK GANO | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Darrin Williams scored five points in the final 1:10 Saturday and Illinois-Chicago rallied from an eight-point second-half deficit to ...

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Jane Addams Hull House Reopens Following Renovation

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Jane Addams Hull House, a tiny museum on the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, is reopening Wednesday after an $800,000 makeover, the larg...

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Bill Ayers Denies Dedicating Book To RFK's Killer

Posted 05.25.2011

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In September, 1960s radical and retired professor William Ayers was denied emeritus faculty status by the University of Illinois at Chicago for an all...

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Erin Cho And The Chicago Urban Program

The Huffington Post/Her Campus | Lisa Moy | Posted 05.25.2011

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This past summer, Erin Cho, a senior at the University of Illinois at Chicago, decided to venture out of her suburban home in Palatine, IL, and live i...

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University of Illinois Is in the Black, While Faculty and Students See Red

Lennard Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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When a financial crisis arises, real or not, the administration tends to balance the budget by cutting salaries or new hires and raising student tuition.

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Wage Theft Swamps Chicagoland: Workplace Protections Are Failing Cook County's Low-Wage Workers

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amy Traub

What if we had a minimum wage, but nobody felt constrained to pay it? What if day-long shifts never came with a meal break?

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Celebrating the Contributions of Chicago Entrepreneurs

Rod Shrader | Posted 05.25.2011

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It will be the Midwest, the Chicago region in particular, that will lead the nation out of the recession. The reason is the diversity of our economy.

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John D'Emilio Lecture: Chicago's Gay History, Richard Nixon's Accidental Support Of Gays

HuffPost Eyes&Ears Local | Kate Lowry, Justin Sherwood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Produced by HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit Was Richard Nixon a gay liberationist? Many would scoff at the question. But John D'Emilio...

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Rep. Monique Davis, Student Damian Wolak Immersed In Statue Scandals

Posted 05.25.2011

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It is apparently stolen statue week in Chicago. First, there was the hoopla over State Rep. Monique Davis keeping a 400-pound bronze statue of an Afri...

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UIC Closing Pilsen Medical Clinic For Low-Income Latinas

Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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The University of Illinois at Chicago says it's closing a medical clinic geared for low-income women in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. But a community...

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