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It appears on the table almost seconds after you place your order and hand your menus back to the server. It's a bit of preserved baby artichoke with blood orange at Tru. Perhaps a deviled egg at Table 52, or a nibble of hamachi sashimi with yuzu vinaigrette and black Hawaiian salt at Sola.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Zeleke Gessesse, founder of One Love Africa, a program that provides schools in Africa, pictured in his business, Wild Hare.
(John H. White/Sun-Times)
Chicagoan betters city by building African schools Zeleke Gessesse makes Chicago shine as a compassionate city through the care it shows for young people in Africa. The reggae musician and Lincoln Park resident is the co-founder with Ziggy Marley of One Love Africa. Since its inception 12 years ago, the nonprofit Chicago-based group has raised funds to build and open 10 schools that now provide education to more than 15,000 youngsters annually in Ethiopia.


Good things come in small packages
It appears on the table almost seconds after you place your order and hand your menus back to the server. It's a bit of preserved baby artichoke with blood orange at Tru. Perhaps a deviled egg at Table 52, or a nibble of hamachi sashimi with yuzu vinaigrette and black Hawaiian salt at Sola.


Sonic gets big welcome
Julie and Kara Salanicky are true connoisseurs of the Sonic brand, and their dedication proves it. The Oswego sisters have made several long trips to Peoria -- up until Tuesday the nearest place to score messy Coney dogs and more than 168,000 drink combinations via car hop service -- before the grand opening of Aurora's own Sonic drive-in diner at Kirk and Butterfield roads. It's the first Sonic in the Chicago area.

Photos: Sonic rolls into town Taste testing Sonic's Cherry Limeade

Kids urged to attend, skip first day of school
As the first day of school nears for Chicago Public Schools, two movements to improve education for its mostly low-income, minority students are on a collision course. The Black Star Project and its Million Father March -- a five-year-old movement steamrolling across the country -- are calling for men, especially black men, to take children to school en masse Sept. 2.
Meeks solicits support for school boycott plan





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