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- Hoops in the Hood: More than a game 9/2/2010
- The fourth annual Cross-City Tournament emphasized teamwork, sportsmanship and safe streets.
- Hoops takes to the streets in North Lawndale 8/20/2010
- LCDC brings B-Ball program out of the gym and into a more public, overt role in slam-dunking crime and gang activity.
- Hot town enjoys Hoops, markets, festivals 8/6/2010
- Summer in the city has meant no shortage of outdoor activities in NCP neighborhoods.
- Auburn-Gresham continues Renaissance; Quad Communities keeps on Groovin' 9/24/2009
- On Sept. 12, the fourth annual 79th Street Renaissance Festival kicked off with Miami Heat sensation Dwayne Wade leading hundreds of youth in a silent march against violence. Meanwhile, in Quad Communities, several hundred people came out for the Groovin’ & Gospel on the Grove Festival, held Sept. 12-13.
- 11 'Hoods square off in ‘Hoops’ finals 8/19/2009
- The summer-long Hoops in the Hood program, which culminated with the citywide championship on Aug. 22, is about far more than scores and highlights.
- Chicagoans take to the Open Streets 7/30/2009
- Thousands of bicyclists, inline skaters, runners and strollers hit the boulevards in five West Side NCP neighborhoods Saturday morning and early afternoon when last October’s twin Sunday Parkways events were reprised all at once under a new name: Open Streets.
- ‘Healing’ blends sports, music, theater, prayer 6/24/2009
- Soggy weather at the outset may have dampened turnout somewhat, but hundreds of spirits were lifted nonetheless during the 2009 “Healing the Hood” street festival on June 13 in Little Village.
- Closing ceremony: The winner is ... the kids 4/15/2009
- Ordinarily empty during Spring Break, Crane Technical Prep High School on Saturday, April 11, was instead the scene of the final matches of the Spring Into Sports competition that had engaged students from throughout the city the entire week.
- Spring Into Sports off to strong start 4/5/2009
- While most Chicago public high schools lie silent and still during Spring Break, four are filled with the roar of the crowd, the thrill of victory, and the agony – or at least the learning experience – of defeat.
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