Friday 2/26 – Thursday 3/4
27 SATURDAY The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization started back in 1994, when residents learned that the Board of Education planned to build a school on a polluted site at 31st and Millard. They won that battle, but the group didn’t have the time or resources to investigate the construction of two other schools, which, it turns out, were built on land the state EPA never approved. On a more positive note, LVEJO recently learned that the city is giving in to community pressure and will make improvements to a neighborhood park. It’ll hold its first annual fund-raiser tonight from 6 to 2 at Calles y Sue–os, 1900 S. Carpenter. A $10 donation at the door includes food, live music, poetry readings, and a DJ. Call 773-762-6991 for more.
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After Myra Bradwell passed the Illinois bar in 1869, she applied for a license–but it was denied. She spent the next several years fighting for her right to practice and finally saw the passage of a law preventing gender from being used to bar women from most professions. Bradwell also founded the weekly Chicago Legal News and continued to fight for a woman’s freedom to choose her occupation. Tonight historian Annette Baldwin Kolasinski and actor Mary Jewel will portray Bradwell and six other real and fictitious working women (including Pepperidge Farm founder Margaret Rudkin) as part of the Women’s History Month program By Necessity By Choice: Women in the Workplace. It takes place from 7:30 to 9 at the College of DuPage’s McAninch Arts Center, 425 22nd in Glen Ellyn. Admission is free. Call 630-942-4000.
