Community Services for Immigrants:
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| St. Ita Church |
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| Spanish mass..packed with Latinas |
- There is also, "the biggest Latino church" in neighborhood - St. Ita Church-
on Broadway, which gives Spanish exclusive mass, where Latino families are gathering, among them many Latinas with baby strollers.
- Another "major" institution should be the “George Swift Elementary School” at Winthrop and Thorndale. About 1/2 of its 735 students are the children from immigrant family; many of them in language support classes which are held for 65 languages (from pre-school kids to 2nd graders, provided by its “inclusion model”..) 40% of the school's population also take “ESL” classes.
- Another "major" institution should be the “George Swift Elementary School” at Winthrop and Thorndale. About 1/2 of its 735 students are the children from immigrant family; many of them in language support classes which are held for 65 languages (from pre-school kids to 2nd graders, provided by its “inclusion model”..) 40% of the school's population also take “ESL” classes.
You can see how diverse the school is in this video..!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yzPCZWbMgZQ https://sites.google.com/site/swiftbulldogs/Home
- The ESL teacher says her children are "from refugee camps." ..
In the video, Ms Till says the Burmese refugees are mass immigrated here in recent years..
..I'm sure.. they were..induced by cia..
When I saw the school..the white children appeared to be around 10%...
This school is high achieving school.
George Swift Elementary School - (Ms Till actually wrote me this school was "built in 1814!"..is that true??..)
- I also heard about the Burmese refugees in the
NGO called
“Pan-African Association” on Broadway (next to the Dominic’s grocery
near Granville) It isa gov't- aided refugee service organization...
Their activities are:
“Settlement assistance for Refugees, asylumars, immigrants from Africa (e.g. Burundi, Somali, Ethiopia, DRC Congo, Eritrea, Liberia, Nigeria...), Middle-East (mainly, Iran, Iraq), Asia (mainly, Burma, Bhutan)and all people in Chicago. (Maybe they don't include Vietnamese refugees since there is much bigger community organization for Vietnam refugees in Uptown Argyle, next to this area..)
They also give adjustment and integration services, job development classes. They have about 200 ~ 300 volunteer workers.. including local college students from our university who is taking the 'refugee assistance' class.. I heard my fellow student caroline visits a Bhutanese family for 5 hrs a week..
- I also visited a small African Church, called “Faith Victory Ministries International,” started by a guy named Antwan.. an African-born, French immigrant guy,.. who runs Internet café & African music shop near Thorndale sta.(His church looks like just started..but he seems very enthusiastic.) I was looking for "black people's church" in this area, but it seems like the one which was rumored about?.
“Settlement assistance for Refugees, asylumars, immigrants from Africa (e.g. Burundi, Somali, Ethiopia, DRC Congo, Eritrea, Liberia, Nigeria...), Middle-East (mainly, Iran, Iraq), Asia (mainly, Burma, Bhutan)and all people in Chicago. (Maybe they don't include Vietnamese refugees since there is much bigger community organization for Vietnam refugees in Uptown Argyle, next to this area..)
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| Pan African Association |
They also give adjustment and integration services, job development classes. They have about 200 ~ 300 volunteer workers.. including local college students from our university who is taking the 'refugee assistance' class.. I heard my fellow student caroline visits a Bhutanese family for 5 hrs a week..
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| about 12 audience..? |
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| Antwan's church is run by friends |
- I also visited a small African Church, called “Faith Victory Ministries International,” started by a guy named Antwan.. an African-born, French immigrant guy,.. who runs Internet café & African music shop near Thorndale sta.(His church looks like just started..but he seems very enthusiastic.) I was looking for "black people's church" in this area, but it seems like the one which was rumored about?.
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| "The minister.." Charles Antwan... |
..No, I found the black people around my house were just dispersed . going to the churches in many different areas (like one guy whom I asked..said "I'm going to the church in Uptown"..and the other woman said she believes Witness of Jehovah..there was also another black woman who said she goes to the church at "more north")
- Also, there is a big Shiite
mosque named “The Ismaili Center” at the corner of Broadway. It is thriving with about 5,000 Muslim members- mainly from Pakistan..India
and east Africa...I tried to get inside the other day for Friday prayer but the men at the front door warily declined the pagan to get in. Sunni Muslims also have North Side Mosque ..Masjid e-Noor, and
so on.
- Other local Christianity churches in this area are also more or less helping immigrants and promoting community’s integration..in principle.. without ethnic boundaries.The Episcopal Atonement Church.. an Irish Catholic..is the biggest cathedral..so I saw the Overnight Mass on the Christmas eve..and where my apartments office people (Irish) are also going..It has nice atmosphere..As long as if you get in the church, people are offered to be tied..as if there is a community...
- Other local Christianity churches in this area are also more or less helping immigrants and promoting community’s integration..in principle.. without ethnic boundaries.The Episcopal Atonement Church.. an Irish Catholic..is the biggest cathedral..so I saw the Overnight Mass on the Christmas eve..and where my apartments office people (Irish) are also going..It has nice atmosphere..As long as if you get in the church, people are offered to be tied..as if there is a community...
- In my observation all the ethnic groups looked like already developed their
own gathering spots for easing their hearts.
- The small community of
aged Japanese immigrants are gathering at Devon
Church at Devon Ave; or other Japanese church in the suburb.. they have “Midwest Buddhist
Temple” at Sunnyside Ave in
Uptown also..
While sociologists called today’s partial assimilation pattern (in case of Latino immigrants) as “segmented assimilation,” it is also happening to the other, every immigrant group found in Edgewate today? ..As a nature of multiethnic society, each group separately creates its secret community spaces for somehow maintaining their culture, language and religion..(unlike how “old immigrants” in early 20th century did and eventually assimilated into hyphenated-Americans.)
at the corner of Winthrop & Hollywood..
- this street is where Hillary was born!!
While sociologists called today’s partial assimilation pattern (in case of Latino immigrants) as “segmented assimilation,” it is also happening to the other, every immigrant group found in Edgewate today? ..As a nature of multiethnic society, each group separately creates its secret community spaces for somehow maintaining their culture, language and religion..(unlike how “old immigrants” in early 20th century did and eventually assimilated into hyphenated-Americans.)
- this street is where Hillary was born!!
The legendary "Edgewater Beach Hotel"..
*The hotel thrived until 1960s( "celebrities such as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe were the patrons of the hotel"..until Lake Shore Drive severed the hotel's site mercilessly.. and killed the life of it..
..A friend of mine, Dominique said...she used to have a friend in Edgewater Beach Apartment (the bldg on the right of the above drawing, which still remains today) and sometimes visited and saw the indoor pool there..
(Below.. panels exhibited in the museum)
- : A lot of these rich apartment hotels used to exist in this area... in former era...
.. my apartment's bldg actually seemed like one of them.. ..while I chose not to dig into the issue
for my research...(its like worn-out subject.) ..the neighborhood is changing.
