They say love comes suddenly and unexpectedly, sometimes during the most tumultuous times in life, said Carlos Salazar, a native of Venezuela who now lives in Rogers Park. He met his partner Efren Monsalve in Peru after they escaped the turmoil and economic crisis ravaging their home country. They found a home in each other, they said, now sitting on a couch in their apartment, seemingly a million miles away from friends and family. But their family wasn’t complete. They’d been missing their cat, Katzel, after they had to make the hard decision to leave her in Peru when they […]
Category: Parenting and Family
Heidi Stevens: Saying goodbye to a childhood home that was so much more than a house
We don’t talk enough in our culture about the emotional weight of saying goodbye to a house. A house changes hands. But it becomes part of you.
Turmoil at Chicago Public Schools: What you need to know
The root of the CPS back-and-forth is a lack of money. CPS faced about a $500 million deficit for this school year as federal pandemic relief funding ran out, and is projected to face similar gaps for the next several years.
Heidi Stevens: ‘Not aspiring to be humble’ is a rallying cry for this moment, but let’s not stop there
I want to focus on a different quote from Harris, which is less pithy but no less powerful. “We have our family by blood, and then we have our family by love.”
Who are the new Board of Education members and what will their appointments mean for CPS parents and children?
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s announcement of six proposed appointees to the Chicago Board of Education at a heated news conference Monday leaves the next several months shrouded in uncertainty for the new board and the district.
Heidi Stevens: Rolling back comprehensive sex ed fails to prepare young people for the world they actually live in
Whatever words we’re cringing about our kids hearing from a certified educator, we’ll cringe into the fetal position if we see the results of those words typed into Google.
Reframing self-care: New Chicago business looks beyond scented candles and massages to help clients find joy
Chicago-based On Leave Experiences pairs clients with excursions intended to help them broaden their horizons by wandering, creating and learning.
CPS pledges support to embattled CEO Pedro Martinez; board president Jianan Shi says, it’s not a ‘joint statement’
Chicago Board of Education President Jianan Shi said he was not consulted before the school district defended embattled CEO Pedro Martinez. “This is not a joint statement,” Shi said.
Chicago Board of Education unanimously approves new strategic plan for district schools
Parents, students, teachers and advocates filled dozens of seats in the auditorium at Chicago Public Schools’ Downtown offices ahead of the vote that would determine the district’s way forward – for the next five years. Shortly after the Board of Education’s unanimous vote to approve its new five-year strategic plan, the room burst into applause, but not all who observed the vote were pleased. After the vote, among the five speakers who signed up to address the board, Angel Alvarez, a South Chicago native and CPS alumni, reprimanded the board for its new plan, stating that it “failed to address […]
Congressional hearing Tuesday will be the first one to address slaying of 6-year-old Palestinian boy from Chicago area
Wadee Al Fayoumi was brutally stabbed to death in Plainfield and his mother was hospitalized in the attack. Their landlord was charged with hate crimes.