Find Your Voter Info and Voting Districts

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On Cook County Clerk’s website find out  your voter information and your voting districts. Voter Information search tool provides several pieces of key information unique to you. You can: Verify your voter registration Find your polling place See your sample ballot, when available See a list of your elected officials and their contact information Check your [...]

Voters Critical Dates for March 20th Election

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Cook County Clerk, David Orr has released the following important dates.  Register to vote:  Now until February 21st.  An application can be downloaded from the web site below.   Mail Ballots that replaces the absentee ballot:  February 9 through March 15th You may download an application or call 312-603-0946. Remember you must indicate your party preference. [...]

Cook County Democratic Party Endorsed Candidates for 2012 Primary

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These are NOT HanDI’s Endorsements – – – – – Cook County Democratic Party endorses Candidates on October 6, 2011 for 2012 Primary Election on March 20, 2011 Office First Name Last Name Clerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown Recorder of Deeds Karen Yarbrough State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez MWRDGC Debra Shore MWRDGC Kari Steele [...]

Cook County 2012 Budget – What would you do?

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Cook County Budget Deficit: New Site Asks Residents How They Would Fix Budget Shortfall The Huffington Post   Lizzie Schiffman   First Posted: 8/9/11 12:58 PM ET Updated: 8/9/11 02:13 PM ET How would you fix Cook County’s $315 million budget shortfall? An interactive “Budget” section launched Tuesday on the Cook County government website lets residents [...]

Camp Wellstone Schaumburg IL 9-11 Moment of Silence

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On this date, 10 years ago, our world, not just the US, was severely shaken where the acts of terrorism arrived shockingly on the shores of the United States where the victims and the rescuers came from at least forty other nations that included people of many races, many religions, many incomes. This shock caused [...]

Camp Wellstone Registration is now open!

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  Click here to register now HanDI and our local partner organizations are thrilled to announce that registration is now open for Camp Wellstone, the three-day progressive training camp to be held right here in suburban Chicago! Check here for the Camp Wellstone 2011 flyer.         When: Friday, September 9 (evening) – Saturday, [...]

Freedom Bash!

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On the weekend of June 10 and 11, Hanover Township celebrated its annual Freedom Bash, and HanDI was there.  Several of us volunteered at the donations booth, where we accepted gifts of “comfort items” to be sent to troops abroad. Then on Saturday evening, the usual suspects (and family) gathered to dine on hot dogs, [...]

Crisis mappers: Mobile technology helps disaster victims worldwide

Check out this video on the use of low-cost mobile technology, Google maps and a worldwide network of volunteers to create 4636, an emergency response system, that is now used by the U.S Coast Guard, Red Cross and United Nations. PBS Need to Know: Crisis Mapping May 13, 2011 Alison Stewart There are now 6.8 [...]

Celebrating A Death

Posted: 05/ 2/11 12:52 AM ET by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush Religion Editor, Huffington Post It is a strange and conflicting emotion to celebrate a death. My professed beliefs include the redemption of evil and the potential good in all humanity. Yet I felt a sense of exhilaration when I read the headline ‘DEAD’ about Osama [...]

Arbor Day 2011

Neighbors gathered on Arbor day to clean up Surrey Woods in Streamwood

  This Arbor Day, April 30, HanDI members Maureen and Rick (plus kids) joined other Streamwood residents to clean up Surrey Woods park, off Route 59.  (Although the event was not sponsored by HanDI, it did align with our group’s commitment to environmental issues, so M. & R. embraced the opportunity to volunteer!) The work [...]