Uptown Restaurant with Mission to Help Homeless Closes

Hunter Clauss WTTW Chicago Tonight A North Side restaurant employing people grappling with homelessness closed its doors for good on Sunday. Inspiration Kitchens had been a fixture of the Uptown neighborhood for 11 years. But owners of the restaurant say a loss of federal funding and the state’s historic budget impasse made it difficult to […]

Bill on nonprofit salaries faces early 2013 vote

Measure would require more transparency on executive pay at publicly funded organizations By Matthew Walberg, Chicago Tribune reporter 7:04 PM CST, December 24, 2012 A bill that would require greater transparency on how much executives at publicly funded nonprofit organizations are paid is expected to be voted on by House lawmakers early next year. The […]