Saturday Palm Card: April 28 – May 4

The Palm Card is a weekend rundown of our top news stories based on pageviews and viral impact in the community.

5. Names Project makes Chicago stop to gather minority AIDS quilt panels Bobby Orr-Foreman cut out letters and affixed green fabric cut to look like grass on a 3-foot-by-6-foot panel Saturday afternoon at TPAN. Read More ->

4. Community forum held for Paige Clay

KOKUMO performing song dedicated to the memory of Paige Clay

A forum of nearly 100 people came together to discuss the recent murder of a Chicago transgender woman, Paige Clay, at TaskForce Prevention and Community Services, 9 N. Cicero Ave. on the city’s West Side Tuesday night. Read More ->

3. Gay travelers explore LGBT-friendly destinations at travel expo

Peter Canellis and Matthew Dontje are planning their first trip together as a couple but they don’t know where to go. Read More ->

2. Body found in vacated Gerber/Hart building

A body was found in the newly-vacated former location of Gerber/Hart Library & Archives in the Edgewater neighborhood Tuesday night, according to police. Read More ->

1. Rockford to have its first pride festival

Rockford Pride Fest planning board. Photo: Tony Merevick.

ROCKFORD, Ill. — A group of organizers and residents plan to bring the first-ever LGBT pride festival to the state’s third-largest city this June. Read More ->