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Cook County Sheriff Kicks Off “Jail Guitar Doors” Program
By Communications Staff at October 16, 2012 | 2:08 pm | 0 Comment
Originally published Thursday, October 11, at the Cook County Sheriff website: On Thursday, October 11, the Cook County Sheriff's Office kicked off the new "Jail Guitar Doors" program at Division 11. The program will offer an eight‐week guitar lesson program for inmates. Jail Guitar Doors was founded by Billy Bragg in 2007 to honor the life of The Clash more...
Cook County’s Provident Hospital Recognizes National Mammography Month
By Communications Staff at October 16, 2012 | 1:59 pm | 0 Comment
Originally published Friday, October 12, on the Cook County Health and Hospitals System website: Cook County Health and Hospitals System officials announced Friday, October 12th, that in honor of National Mammography Month, Provident Hospital of Cook County will offer free mammography screenings to the first 50 women who preferably have never had a more...
Artificial Aquatic Habitats
By Communications Staff at October 16, 2012 | 1:51 pm | 0 Comment
Originally published Thursday October 11, at the Forest Preserve District of Cook County website: Did you know all of the Forest Preserve District’s fishing lakes are man-made? Many of our lakes began as borrow pits (enormous holes left behind after land is excavated) for road and highway construction—not the ideal location for fish, wildlife or plant life. more...
Governors State University Students Present “Throwaways,” a Film and Discussion on Life after Prison
By Communications Staff at October 10, 2012 | 11:50 am | 8 Comments
Students in the Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice degree program are hosting a special program to encourage discussion and understanding of the adjustment problems facing women after incarceration. The program begins at 6 p.m., on October 17, with the screening of Throwaways, a documentary film made by GSU students. The film follows the lives of several women as they more...
Waste Not: Advancing Commercial Food Scrap Collection in the Chicago Area
By Communications Staff at October 9, 2012 | 9:55 am | 0 Comment
From the Friday, October 5 edition of Cook County Sustainability: Cook County’s Solid Waste Management Plan Update, approved earlier this year, tasks the County with continuing to decrease the amount of waste we are sending to landfills. As a part of this effort, The Cook County Department of Environmental Control has partnered with other counties in the more...
New Life on the Des Plaines River: Hofmann Dam Removal Project
By Communications Staff at October 3, 2012 | 3:33 pm | 0 Comment
Residents in Lyons and Riverside have seen some big changes in the Des Plaines River. In June of this year, the Hofmann Dam was breached, the last of three low-head dams to recently be removed from the River. The first Hofmann Dam was installed in the early part of the last century, when it was not uncommon for the entire Des Plaines River to dry up. Adding the dam more...
Cook County Honors Military Veterans
By Communications Staff at October 3, 2012 | 2:51 pm | 2 Comments
From the October 2, 2012 edition of the Oak Lawn Patch.com: "The Salute to Our Armed Forces" event drew more than 300 veterans to the Double Tree Hotel in Alsip. The event was held to honor Cook County service men and women. They rose in unison, more than 300 retired members of the Armed Forces, gathered to remember, to honor their fallen friends and their own more...
FPDCC NeighborhoodSpace Addresses Big City, Small Spaces
By Communications Staff at October 3, 2012 | 2:45 pm | 0 Comment
Have you heard of NeighborSpace? It’s an innovative way for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County to support Chicago residents through open space projects that were once considered too small and too urban to be compatible with the District’s system of preserves and natural areas. By design, the Forest Preserves circle the city, an oasis of natural areas and more...
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
By Communications Staff at October 1, 2012 | 1:46 pm | 0 Comment
One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, and remains the second leading cause of death among women. The good news is that death rates for this disease have been on the decline since 1990, partially due to better screening and detection techniques, increased awareness and improved more...
Cook County Clerk Orr, Chicago Fire & Reavis High Register Voters
By Sebastian James at September 24, 2012 | 12:00 pm | 0 Comment
Cook County Clerk David Orr and the Chicago Fire’s Jay Nolly visited a Reavis High School soccer practice Wednesday afternoon to promote voter registration and urge students to get involved in the Nov. 6, 2012 Presidential Election. “If you don’t participate, it’s like your team playing a man short,” Orr said on the school’s soccer field, 6034 W. 77th St., more...
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