All Week Long
Originally published on hpherald.com 02/05/2024 | Photo: Marc C. Monaghan
The Hyde Park Neighborhood Club (HPNC) held its 57th annual pancake breakfast Sunday morning, drawing more than 350 people from Hyde Park and nearby neighborhoods, including dozens of families residing at the Lake Shore Hotel migrant shelter.
Among the breakfast’s 46 volunteers were Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and state Sen. Robert Peters (D-13th), both of whom flipped pancakes at the club's 5480 S. Kenwood Ave. facility.
Residents from the Lake Shore Hotel enjoyed the breakfast as participants in the HPNC's New Neighbor Support Weekend Program. Coordinated with Street Soccer USA, Hyde Park Refugee Project and community members, the program offers English as a Second Language classes, soccer sessions, early childhood playrooms and game/art room programming free of cost.
The meal included blueberry, chocolate chip and plain pancakes, sausage and bacon, and various morning beverages. Angela Habr, executive director of the HPNC, said that funds raised during the breakfast would be applied to support the club's programs "across the board."
Originally published on abc7chicago.com 02/06/2024 | Photo: ABC7
Top Illinois leaders attended a closed-door meeting Monday on the migrant crisis.
Gov. JB Pritzker, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson all met at City Hall.
They discussed their response to asylum-seekers coming to the area.
More than 35,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago in the last year and a half.
Pritzker has said the state offered financial help to the city to house migrants, but that money has not been earmarked yet for a specific project by the city.
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