JNDCC News

Last Friday, Alderman Debra Silverstein announced that the Chicago Police Department will be adding nine new police officers in the 50th Ward, five in the 24th District, which covers West Rogers Park, and four in the 17th District, which covers Peterson Park.
 
On Monday of this week, 24th Distric...

As we have shared on multiple occasions, Jewish Child and Family Services and the JUF / Jewish Federation has been investing in West Rogers Park with the construction and operation of the new Abe and Ida Cooper Center on Pratt and Kedzie. The new building is beautiful and joins the Joy Faith Knap...

Those of us who grew up on the northside of Chicago and are of a certain age...I am 74...have so many memories of the “good old days” of West Rogers Park.  Those of us who live in WRP today but didn’t grow up here have their own very different view of the neighborhood.
 
JCCWRP board member and do...

JCCWRP will be partnering with the Jewish Federation / JUF on an opportunity to bring the community together around volunteering in West Rogers Park.

Good Deeds Day was started in Israel in 2007 as a way for people to give back and has since become an international day of service taking place in o...

This week President Obama delivered his farewell address in Chicago, and next week Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.  Though strongly held opinions about both men divide our community and the country as a whole, Pres. Obama said something on which we can al...