Atavia Reed
Reporter at Block Club Chicago
On the South Side beat @blockclubchi. Nosey by Nature. Words around town. Always talking film, music and books👩🏾💻
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1 week ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
ENGLEWOOD — City crews have cleared two vacant lots in Englewood of cars and debris after fielding a decade of complaints about the unlicensed junkyard operating on a residential street — and after a recent Block Club investigation highlighted the city’s failure to clear the lots. The city’s Department of Streets and Sanitation removed the cars stored on the vacant lots at 7150-52 S. Normal Blvd.
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1 week ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
ENGLEWOOD — Local officials and community artists convened Monday to examine the recent disappearance of South Side festivals and jumpstart celebrations for the 5th Annual Englewood Music Festival. Artist Que Billah and a live band performed classics like “So Fresh, So Clean,” artists painted on canvas and neighbors danced at “Sustaining the Joy: A Real Talk About Producing South Side Community Festivals.” The panel, hosted by Ald.
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1 week ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
GREATER GRAND CROSSING — The Civilian Office of Police Accountability launched an investigation Monday after Chicago police officers shot and killed a man inside a Greater Grand Crossing assisted living facility. About 2:50 a.m. Monday, officers responded to a call of a person with a knife threatening residents at the assisted living center in the 1400 block of East 75th Street, police said. Officers found the unit where the man lived and tried to speak with him, police said.
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2 weeks ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
ENGLEWOOD — Nick Anaya had a “strong inclination” that he might receive the Golden Apple Teaching Award Wednesday afternoon. Anaya, an engineering and robotics teacher at Lindblom Math and Science Academy, was invited to the school’s gymnasium for a “robotics celebration,” he said. As leader of the school’s fast-growing robotics team, he wasn’t sure what that meant. “But I didn’t want to jinx it,” Anaya said.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Atavia Reed
NowCNN — President Donald Trump says Harvard University will be stripped of its tax-exempt status, redoubling an extraordinary threat amid a broader chess match over free speech, political ideology and federal funding at the Ivy League school and across American academia. “We are going to be taking away …
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