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The Red Line Project, a new site covering Chicago neighborhoods located off the Red Line El stops, was created by Online Journalism II students at DePaul University’s College of Communication. The site soft-launched in early January and will begin regular updates in February.

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Cob Connection Growing Food, Changing Lives

Posted on December 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

ChicagoStorytelling’s Lora Swarts and Yanyue Liu wrote this story and produced this audio slideshow about Cob Connection, a Chicago urban farming program, for the hyperlocal site Gapers Block.

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Tagged Chad Bliss, Chicago, Cob Connection, Crystal Farm, Drake Farm, farming, Food, Humboldt Park, Megg Mass, organic food, St. Louis Farm, Trump Tower, urban agriculture

San Jose Obrero Mission Helping Homeless One Person at a Time

Posted on December 9, 2010 | Leave a comment

Audio Slideshow: Visit the mission and hear the stories of those staying there.

By Fatimah Salami and Amber Tweedie

After being turned away from several homeless shelters for not fitting their criteria, 20-year-old Alex Samuelson sought out one more place where he hoped to temporarily call home, San Jose Obrero Mission.

San Jose Obrero is a Latino male homeless shelter in East Pilsen that finally gave Alex a place to lay his head and opportunities to rebuild his life.

“Everybody is equal here,” said Samuelson. “We’re all in the same boat. Just because you speak one language or both languages or just because you’re one color it doesn’t matter here. We’re all brothers here.”

San Jose Obrero began as an organization by Friar David Staszak in 1981 as a way to fight homelessness in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood.

Interactive Map: For locations of San jose Obrero missions in Chicago, visit this map

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Pilsen Parish Finds Culture Integration Difficult

Posted on December 9, 2010 | Leave a comment

By Ewa Lyczewska and Jill Jacoby

Father Jim Collins, an associate Jesuit priest at St. Procopius Parish, finds integration of two churches “hard.” (Photo by Ewa Lyczewska)

“It is hard to integrate two churches … and nobody is successful at that in five years,” said Father Jim Collins, an associate Jesuit priest at St. Procopius Parish.

Located in Pilsen, a Lower West Side, Latino-dominated Chicago neighborhood, St. Procopius Parish consists of its title name church and Holy Trinity Croatian. St. Procopius Parish inherited a “dying” Holy Trinity Croatian in 2004, according to Collins.

Podcast: Father Jim discusses church integration issues. The song Lamb of God is featured throughout the podcast, first in English, then Croatian, Spanish, and once again in English.

St. Procopius Parish offers seven Sunday Masses: three at Holy Trinity Croatian and four at St. Procopius. Holy Trinity celebrates Masses in Croatian, English and Spanish while St. Procopius has three in Spanish and one in English.

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Tagged Catholic church, Chicago, Holy Trinity Croatian, Jim Collins, Our Lady of Bistrica, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pilsen, religion, St. Procopius