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WTTW News • 30th August 2020

Virtual Adoptions No Apparent Hurdle for Pet-Seeking Chicagoans

Jenna Bartello, a Portage Park resident who teaches in suburban Schiller Park, had planned to adopt a puppy at some point during her summer break from school, but when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted her work schedule — and also that of her partner Eric — the couple decided to start their search earlier.

Two months and dozens of adoption applications later, the couple found a puppy being fostered out in far-flung Peotone that they could finally take home with them.

“I swear, I applied for prob
WTTW News • 29th August 2020

Vision for Emmett Till’s Woodlawn Home Goes Beyond Landmark Status

Exactly 65 years after the brutal killing and shocking open-casket funeral of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black Chicagoan who was lynched while visiting family in Mississippi, the red brick two-flat where Till lived with his mother in the West Woodlawn neighborhood is on the path to an official city landmark designation.

The effort, led by a coalition of historic preservationists, Woodlawn-based community groups and elected leaders, could get an initial hearing and vote as early as Thursday, whe
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