by Joel Ebert in News
In the same week that Barack Obama was declared the President-elect, Chicago's homicide rate topped that of last year.
The deaths of Brian Murdock, 15, and Quinton Buckner, 17, on Nov. 7, raised Chicago's murder rate for 2008 to 447, according to a Chicago Sun-Times article.
by Igor Studenkov in News
As the trial period of the Chicago Transit Authority's West Side and West Suburban Sub-Regional service plan comes to a close, the CTA looked to West Side residents for feedback at a meeting held last week.
Under the provisions of the program, which was implemented in 2006, the CTA launched the Pink Line, eliminated the Blue Line's Cermak branch and retooled several bus routes.
by Heather Jackson in News
Several UIC students took part in Campus Challenge, an effort to increase registration of organ and tissue donors, helping to make the school remain among the leaders that registered donors upon the program's closing last Friday.
The program, which is part of Donate Life, a nationwide organization, was a friendly and competitive way to involve college and university students to increase donor registration.
