History & Genealogy

Plains Indians are still a vibrant culture making art with modern materials and not just colorful beads and eagle feathers.   The exhibit shows tribes west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains adapted when they were forced into reservations and the U.S.

A program sharing genealogy breakthroughs at 2pm Thursday, August 29, at Temple Beth Israel, 3601 W. Dempster Street, Skokie. 

This program will be an information-sharing session with researchers reporting on significant discoveries they have made in their family research and how they were able to achieve these successes. 

There will be input from the Ask the Experts panel as well.  Attendees may bring a success story and briefly tell about it. 

Five decades of memories crowded Old Orchard Junior High in May as the school celebrated its 50th anniversary with a schoolwide reunion.

 "You step into this building and it's like deja vu all over again,'' former principal Richard Lovetere, 81, told the Skokie Review.  He called his years spent at the school "the best years" of his life. 

Walking the school's hallways was like moving through a "time machine" as graduates from different decades congregated in different hallways.

In honor of National Dump the Pump Day, the Village of Skokie and the CTA are offering up to 50% off at Park & Ride lots all day Thursday, June 17.

For more information contact the CTA at 1-888-YOURCTA or visit

www.transitchicago.com.

A celebration of the 112th year of Philippine Independence will be held at Saturday, June 12 at 6:00pm at the Jose Rizal Heritage Center in Chicago by the (FACC) Filipino American Council of Greater Chicago.

Guests will be entertained with the ensemble of musicians called the Rondalla.  Also there will be paintings by local Filipino artists.  There will be an exhibit of donated artifacts.  The attire is Filipiniana Formal and cost is $35 per person. 

The Jose Rizal Heritage Center is located at 1332 W.

The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is looking for enthusiastic, motivated volunteers to serve as docents.  Applications are available online now at www.ilholocaustnuseum.org and are due by April 30, 2010. 

Docents advance the educational mission of the Museum by serving as the Museum's principal ambassadors.  They conduct tours and facilitate conversations with school groups and visitors of all ages and backgrounds.  Extensive prior knowledge of the Holocaust or other genoci