The Weekend Palm Card is a reader’s digest of our top news stories of the last seven days based on pageviews and viral impact in the community.
5. Rick Garcia joins The Civil Rights Agenda
Rick Garcia, a longtime activist and founder of Equality Illinois, has joined The Civil Rights Agenda as the LGBT rights group’s policy advisor.
4. Gerber/Hart Library announces new location
Gerber/Hart's new location. Photo: CoStar.
Following over a month of community questions and concerns, Gerber/Hart Library & Archives announced that it would be moving to Clark Point Plaza, 6500 N. Clark St., in a message to supporters Tuesday.
3. Skin is in at TPAN benefit
Chicago dancers stripped, strutted and rocked out with their you-know-whats almost out Saturday night at Chicago Takes Off, a fundariser for TPAN, the Test Postive Aware Network.
2. Illinois naval base starts first gay and lesbian support group
GLASS founders. Photo: Courtesy Ann Foster.
Sailors at the Naval Station Great Lakes formed GLASS, or Gay, Lesbian, and Supporting Sailors, earlier this month, making it the first-ever LGBT support group created on a military base is U.S. history.
1. Bond set after fatal stabbing in Lakeview
CPD stock photo. Photo: Gerald Farinas.
A 52-year-old man faces $500,000 bond and first-degree murder charges after police said he fatally stabbed his roommate in a domestic dispute late Monday night in their Lakeview neighborhood home.
