4th Annual Arthur Stephens Scholarship Walk

Posted on 02. May, 2012 by citizen in Around Town

Come out Saturday morning with family and friends for an invigorating walk through the CSU neighborhood. This event is named in honor of Mr. Arthur Stephens (1922-2009), beloved friend, volunteer, retiree and annuitant. Proceeds from the walk will support a CSU scholarship name in his honor.

Date: May 5, 2012

Time: 7:30 a.m. On-site registration

8:00 a.m. Welcome & Warm-up Exercise by Saran Dunsmore

8:45 a.m. Line up & photos

9:00 a.m. Walk step off

Location: Chicago State University, Cordell Reed Student Union Building, 9501 S. King Drive, Chicago

Cost: Adults, $20; College & H.S. students, $10; CSU students & children under age 12, $5

Contact: 773.995.3839, friends@csu.edu

Info: www.csu.edu/foundation/

University Park Citizen Police Academy

The University Park Citizen Police Academy is designed to increase public awareness, and understanding of the University Park police department’s functions (administration), and law enforcements role within society. The goal also fosters bridging police relations with the community through cooperative partnerships.

Date: May 7, 2012 – July 16, 2012

Time: 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Location: University Park, Ill.  (contact info below for exact address)

Cost: Free

Contact: 708-235-4834, dstroud@university-park-il.com

Dawoud Bey: Harlem USA

In 1979 African American photographer Dawoud Bey held his first solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, showing a suite of 25 photographs titled Harlem USA. Bey had been in residence at that museum for one year, and he had made the surrounding neighborhood a subject of study since 1975. Though raised in Queens, Bey’s family had roots in Harlem, and it was a youthful visit to the exhibition Harlem on My Mind at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969, that had given Bey his determination to become an artist.

Thanks to the efforts of more than 20 patrons, led by Leadership Advisory Committee members Anita Blanchard and Les Coney, the complete vintage set of Harlem USA has been acquired by the Art Institute.

Date: May 2, 2012

Time: 10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Location: Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Cost: $18; Members, Free

Info: artic.edu

Jamaica Farewell

When Debra Ehrhardt was an eighteen year old secretary in Kingston Jamaica, she and her passion for America bumped into a handsome CIA agent over a bowl of oxtail soup on her lunch break. It was during the turbulent seventies of the Manley Era that she saw her chance. A pinhole of opportunity that she could squeeze through with the help of this love-struck American. She began a dangerous adventure that only the single minded passion of a teenage girl would chance. The boundary between bravery and foolishness blurred as she became more desperate. When she agreed to smuggle a million US dollars in cash to a mysterious contact somewhere in Miami, the agent became her accomplice. Only he had no idea.

Date: May 4, 2012

Time: 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Location: Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, Chicago

Cost: $35-45

Contact: 773- 278-1500

Info: chopintheatre.com

Homewood Fire Department Blood Drive

Help out in the Firefighter Blood Donor Challenge. All participating donors will receive a free T-shirt. To prepare for the blood drive, participants should eat well, stay hydrated and bring an identification card. Proper identification is required to donate blood. Appointments are recommended. To schedule your appointment, please call LifeSource at 877-543-3768.

Date: May 19, 2012

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Location: Village of Homewood Fire House, 17950 Dixie Highway, Homewood, Ill.

Cost: Free

Info: www.lifesource.org

Ada S. McKinley Making College Real Luncheon

Chicago – Freeman A. Hrabowski Ill, named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People for 2012 and rated one of the 10 Best College Presidents, will be honored with the McKinley Medallion for Leadership in Education and deliver the keynote address at the Ada S. McKinley Making College Real Luncheon Thursday, May 3, 2012, at 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the University Club of Chicago, 76 E. Monroe in the Michigan Ballroom.