Around Englewood
Photo Gallery of Wil Burch around the Englewood community. [flickr album=72157624800169114 num=20 size=Medium]
Garden to open in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood
QCOnline Illinois AP News — Sun Jul 11 05:00:00 UTC 2010 CHICAGO (AP) — One of Chicago's most downtrodden neighborhoods will soon get a boost. The Heritage Station Community Garden opens in Englewood this week. Terina Cranshaw-Hodges is the head the group Stay Environmentally Focus'd. She says about: Chicago Englewood Chicago head Metro Areas Stay Environmentally Focus Terina Cranshaw-Hodges The Heritage
The old site of Kennedy King College
The Sixth Ward — Tue Jul 06 17:41:00 UTC 2010 Appears to be all gone now. Perhaps I need to drive by there when I get a chance. What new ideas can be had with this free real estate, I wonder? Photo posted on Flickr by Noah Vaughn. about: 6th ward construction Flickr free real estate Human Interest King College neighborhood Noah Vaughn photos real estate at: Kennedy King College
Englewood Star Graduation
CHICAGO -- For each boy, the new school offered an escape and a chance at a life that seemed beyond reach. Krishaun Branch was getting D's, smoking reefer a lot, skipping school twice a week. His mother was too busy working to know what he was doing. He liked to fight and hang out in the streets; having relatives in gangs was his armor. When a young man in suit and tie came to tell his eighth-grade class about a new high school on Chicago's South Side, Krishaun wanted no part of it -- until he heard something tempting: Students would have laptops. Suddenly, he was on board. Marlon Marshall was nonchalant about everything, school included. He did just enough to get by. His mother pushed him to go to college. Sometimes she'd yell at him and his brothers for their bad grades. Once she was so upset when she saw their report cards, she just sobbed. Marlon had heard a pitch, too, about a new charter school. He'd already been rejected by other high schools. This academy was accepting kids by lottery so his mediocre grades wouldn't disqualify him. Why not give it a shot? Marcus Bass figured there just had to be something better for him. Barely a teen, he'd been shot at, robbed a couple of times and had seen terrible things in his housing project. His parents argued constantly; life was chaotic. He was sold by the recruiter's description of a "different" high school. READ FULL ARTICLE
