The federal American Recovery Plan Act and other federal pandemic funding measures meant more than $4 billion combined for the City of Chicago and the Chicago Public Schools. How do you think those funds should be allocated to assist Chicago’s residents in their recovery from the pandemic? Mental Health+Closed Schools The pandemic exposed the...
CHICAGO — A grassroots community organizer and IT consultant announced his candidacy for 19th Ward alderman in the 2023 Chicago election. Beverly resident, Tim Noonan, plans to challenge the incumbent Matt O’Shea, who is running for his fourth term. The Chicago mayoral and city council election is Feb. 28, 2023. “I wouldn’t have gotten involved...
Backlash over a Tennessee school district’s decision to ban a graphic novel about the Holocaust has reached the Southland. Organizers in Beverly are raising money to buy copies of Art Spiegelman’s book “Maus.” They want to acquire more than 100 copies and give them to libraries in every public and private school in the 19th...
Community groups raise funds to buy Art Spiegelman’s award-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust for public and private schools. Read More
Jews of Beverly, a Facebook group for Jewish neighbors; Bookie’s – Chicago bookstore, and 19th Ward Mutual Aid, a not-for-profit organization chartered to support charitable and educational needs in the 19th Ward, have started a fundraising campaign to purchase copies of “Maus” two-book sets for all local schools in the 19th Ward. Author Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Tim Noonan Founder of the 19th Ward Mutual Aid Tim Noonan is the ultimate community volunteer and initiates projects that make a long-lasting contribution to the neighborhood. Whether he is working to save a long-forgotten monument honoring Gold Star Mothers in the Dan Ryan Woods, or working as a parent representative and FOIA/OMA officer on...
When COVID-19 shut down the city and state, local residents immediately went to work helping others, whether it was making facemasks for front-line workers or donating food and household items to people in need. In recent weeks, many of those neighbors have united to organize a long list of charitable efforts for people living in...
In May 2020, Tim Noonan saw that people in local neighborhoods needed help. Families were struggling to deal with the many challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that included putting food on the table. Noonan wanted to help. Read More
A local group, 19th Ward Mutual Aid, was formed due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by the global economic downturn. The purpose of the group is to collectively help one another. Although the group’s name may indicate it helps just the 19th Ward neighborhoods of Mt. Greenwood, Morgan Park and Beverly, organizers said that...
19th Ward Mutual Aid, which runs the Free Store that distributes food at Morgan Park Presbyterian Church, and Turpin Cares, which runs the Hygiene and First Aid Free Store in partnership with the Beverly Area Planning Association (BAPA), are hosting a Wrap Party and End of Summer Outdoor Celebration on Wednesday, Sept. 8, from 4:30...
