
- Created on 16 August 2011
West Side youth named regional Boys & Girls Club standout
Yolandis McCaskill has overcme a number of life challenges, including a crash that nearly cost the 18-year-old her life.

- Created on 27 July 2011
Westside NAACP youth wins at nationals
Jela McKinney, a freshman at Chicago High School for the Arts emerged a national winner in the NAACP’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) competition held July 20-22 in Los Angeles. McKinney picked up a bronze m

- Created on 12 July 2011
Students get taste of legal system at camp
The “What I did on summer vacation” essays for several students who will begin their frehsman year in high school next school year will detail a three-week stint with the The Illinois Law and Leadership Institute in its law camp.

- Created on 12 July 2011
Bud Billiken royal court contestants give oral essays
Candidates vying to be a part of this year’s Bud Billiken Royal Court took the microphone Saturday as part of the oral essay contest. In an auditorium at the Northeastern University’s Carruther’s Center for Inner City Studies, 700 E. Oa