Smart Communities News
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Measuring an Era
- Carl Vogel, Mar 25, 2013, make a comment
- The Smart Communities pilot has reached its quantitative goals, but its impact goes even further
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Job Search 2.0
- Carl Vogel, Feb 18, 2013, make a comment
- By linking help with technology to employment assistance, the Englewood FamilyNet Center doubles up what it offers local residents
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Report: Web Use Way Up in Smart Communities
- Feb 7, 2013, make a comment
- New report shows Internet use up by 15 percent in LISC Chicago's Smart Communities.
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Small, Smart and Ready
- Carl Vogel, Nov 8, 2012, make a comment
- Thanks to a well-designed series of workshops, dozens of small businesses in Pilsen are better prepared to succeed.
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Lessons for Life
- Carl Vogel, Aug 8, 2012, make a comment
- With support from Comcast, a tech training in Englewood helps local residents get ready for school and career.
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Technology and neighborhood youth – a missed opportunity?
- Gordon Walek, Jun 1, 2012, make a comment
- Young people in underserved neighorhoods have more access to digital technology than one might expect. But are they connecting to tools that will help them build a better future?
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Englewood Smart Community: A Video
- Carl Vogel, Mar 1, 2012, make a comment
- This video summerizes how much the Smart Communities program is doing in Englewood.
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Tech Classes Offer Opportunity In West Humboldt Park
- Carl Vogel, Jan 4, 2012, make a comment
- With a new netbook computer and the skills to use it, graduates from the Chicago Commons computer trainings are ready for the new year.
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Smart Communities Wins Planning Award
- Carl Vogel, Dec 13, 2011, make a comment
- The Illinois Chapter of the American Planning Association gives Smart Communities its 2011 Implementation Award
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Auburn Gresham Celebrates in Style
- Carl Vogel, Nov 21, 2011, make a comment
- For its second annual Red Carpet event, the Auburn Gresham Smart Communities program showed off all that it offers
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Neighborhoods Celebrate Their New Digital Skills
- Carl Vogel, Oct 20, 2011, make a comment
- The Broadband Launch event brought together five Smart Communities to recognize all that’s been accomplished and what comes next
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Graduation Day Means New Technology
- Carl Vogel, Sep 27, 2011, make a comment
- The Earned Computers for Training program distributed its first rounds of netbooks to graduates at joyous ceremonies in the Smart Communities
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Argonne Lab Showcases Science Careers
- Carl Vogel, Aug 22, 2011, make a comment
- Students in the Digital Youth Summer Jobs program visited Argonne Labs to see the cutting-edge of technology
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Portal Party Celebrates Two Years of the Pilsen Portal
- Carl Vogel, Aug 17, 2011, make a comment
- Residents come out to hear about the growth of the Pilsen Portal and to enjoy local food, drinks and music
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Portal News: West Humboldt Park Library Dedicated
- Christy Prahl, Aug 2, 2011, make a comment
- When the new Richard M. Daley branch of the Chicago Public Library opened in west Humboldt Park, the Humboldt Park Portal was there to cover the news for the community.
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Smart Communities Part of Mayor's Digital Town Hall
- By Chris Geovanis and Debra Pickett, Jul 12, 2011, make a comment
- Residents of Englewood, Auburn Gresham and Chicago Lawn deploy newfound digital democracy skills at Facebook town hall meeting with Mayor Emanuel.
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Employers Gear Up to Hire 61 'Digital' Youth
- By Patrick Barry, Jun 24, 2011, 1 comment
- A potentially life-changing experience is in store for 61 youth as the Smart Communities program prepares for its second year of Digital Youth Summer Jobs.
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Veterans Training Program Begins
- Jun 9, 2011, make a comment
- Tech organizers Jimmy Prude and Demond Drummer hosted a joint orientation to Smart Communities on June 2 with veterans from the Auburn Gresham and Englewood communities.
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New Crew of Techies Graduates in Pilsen
- By Carl Vogel, May 26, 2011, make a comment
- More than two dozen residents in Pilsen received a Certificate of Digital Literacy as the first graduates of the community's Civic 2.0 course
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Smart Communities Teams Host D.C. Delegation
- By Patrick Barry, Mar 14, 2011, make a comment
- Two crowded rooms and plenty of stories provided a vivid picture of Chicago’s Smart Communities Program for a Washington, D.C., delegation checking up on the federally funded effort.
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Auburn Gresham is a Smart Community
- By Ernest Sanders, Dec 14, 2010, make a comment
- The Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation (GADC) launched its Smart Communities Initiative with a digital and red carpet theme. With nearly 400 attendees, people of all economic and …
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Summer Program Graduates First Class
- By Carl Vogel, Oct 6, 2010, make a comment
- For the dozen teens gathered in the community room at Beloved Community Christian Church, the Youth Recognition Ceremony was yet another group activity that underscored and highlighted their…
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Youth See Tech's Leading Edge at IIT
- By Carl Vogel, Sep 13, 2010, make a comment
- High school students were all eyes when Tom Lord, a sophomore at Illinois Institute of Technology, drove a waist-high robot-on-wheels that looks more like a giant spool. "That's wild," said one…
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How Can Tech Power Communities?
- By Carl Vogel, Jul 15, 2010, make a comment
- At an information technology conference in Chicago, a panel of presenters offered a clinic for techies on how to get involved with community issues. It was quickly apparent that information…
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Humboldt Park Primed for Tech Investment
- By Carl Vogel, Jun 17, 2010, make a comment
- When restaurant owner Tony Muñiz installed wi-fi for his customers, he wasn't sure whether it would be used. But a look around the busy room at lunch time shows he shouldn’t have …
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