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Green Legacy Projects Kick off Burnham Plan Centennial This Summer

July 17, 2009
Kayaking on Lake Michigan, a bike ride across 100 miles stretching from Illinois to Indiana, or hiking along an urb... Read on »

Burge Torture Victim Gets New Trial As Judge Voids Bogus Murder Conviction

May 28, 2009
Nineteen years after he was viciously beaten by subordinates of indicted former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge,... Read on »

VDC Wins Big at Publicity Club of Chicago's 2009 Trumpet Awards

May 13, 2009
Valerie Denney Communications is proud to announce two recent projects were awarded high honors at the Publicity Cl... Read on »

Recession To Push More Than 400,000+ Illinoisians into Poverty, Report Finds

May 12, 2009
Heartland Alliance''s Mid-America Institute on Poverty released a new report last month finding that as many as 405... Read on »

Local Food System Has $30B Economic Stimulus Potential For Illinois Economy

April 22, 2009
Illinois is losing at least $20 to $30 billion in locally grown food sales each year because it lacks a robust smal... Read on »

New Report: Supportive Housing Saves Illinois Money

April 16, 2009
Illinois could save millions of dollars from the most expensive users of public services with more supportive housi... Read on »

HBO's "Ladies" creating buzz in Chicago

March 30, 2009
HBO’s “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency,” a fun and uplifting new series set in Botswana,... Read on »

Southwest Side Foreclosure Crisis Front Page News

March 16, 2009
The foreclosure crisis hitting Chicago''s Southwest Side was the center of a recent front page Chicago Tribune stor... Read on »

Making Great Lakes connections on Twitter

March 03, 2009
Twitter is one of the newest ways people communicate on the Internet. Through 140-character bursts (“tweets&r... Read on »

Chicago Dental Society Launches New Blog

February 25, 2009
There is a new spot on the web for everything dental. Open Wide is the new blog of the Chicago Dental Society (CDS... Read on »

BPI Sues Blagojevich, Demands Proper School Funding

February 04, 2009
Of the many laws that ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is accused of circumventing, few could have more lasting... Read on »

Chicago Matters Series Looks at Our Region's Global Future in 2009

February 03, 2009
Chicago''s award-winning multimedia public affairs series Chicago Matters returns in 2009 with Beyond Burnham. Ini... Read on »

"Keep Our Homes" Campaign Launches in Southwest Chicago

January 05, 2009
On Chicago''s Southwest Side, a coalition of non-profit organizations have united to help local residents fight the... Read on »

Hundreds of Northwest Indiana Citizens Plan Region's Future

January 05, 2009
Nearly 500 Northwest Indiana residents gathered on December 6 for a public forum to plan the future of the region. ... Read on »

VDC has a new look

January 01, 2009
Your eyes are not deceiving you; Valerie Denney Communications has rebranded its identity and launched a new websit... Read on »