Read a re-cap of what's been happening at Midtown Center for boys, upcoming events, alumni updates, and program highlights!
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A Midtown high school student finds a mentor that he can look up to and trust in the Summer PR/Journalism Apprenticeship.
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Midtown students, staff and alumni join together to deliver over 300 Christmas baskets to Chicago area families.
Read MoreMEF, Midtown Center for boys, and Metro Achievement Center for girls all received The Gold Star Mentoring Program Award from the Illinois Mentoring Partnership.
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Alumni updates, upcoming events and testimonials from Midtown Center for boys
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Two Midtown PR/Journalism Apprentices wrote a letter to the editor at the Chicago Tribune that ran this week. They encourage community leaders and lawmakers to build more programs that help prevent violence, like Midtown Center for boys.
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In this our fiftieth year, Midtown had its largest Summer Program ever with 440 students from 4th through 12th grade. Read more for a summer re-cap and alumni update!
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David Elliot, attorney at law at Burr & Forman and a group of attorneys from Discover visited the Midtown Center to meet with the Law Apprenticeship students and implement a mock trial.
Read MoreTwo four-minute features aired on Fox News Channel. They are based on a day-long series of interviews which Kelly Wright conducted at Midtown Center for boys on Friday July 17 & at the Midtown Center Reunion on July 18.
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Midtown Center alumni from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s gathered for a festive 50th anniversary reunion at the original home of the Midtown Center for boys on Loomis & Lexington.
Read MoreMidtown student Danny Sanchez interviews Andy Clark for a story in the Midtown Voice newspaper.
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Upcoming events, center updates and alumni news! See what Midtown alumni are up to now.
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Metro hosted the 15th Annual MEF Parenting Conference: "Parenting: the Most Important Profession of Our Time."
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Local Chicago paper the Gazette interviews Al Castaneda, a 1975 Midtown Center alum. Castaneda is spearheading plans for Midtown Center’s 50th anniversary reunion.
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Since 2011, the John Austin Cheley Foundation has awarded over twenty students from Midtown Center for boys and Metro Achievement Center for girls with scholarships to attend extended stay wilderness camps across the United States.
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Midtown took a Spring Break road trip visiting three universities, four national parks and seven cities.
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We are pleased to share the first of five video profiles highlighting MEF Alumni, one from each decade since Midtown Center for boys opened in 1965!
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Bill Jacobs, owner of Piece Pizzeria & Brewery in Bucktown, visited Midtown to share his 32-year history of perseverance, success, teamwork and passion in the Chicago restaurant industry with the high school program.
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MIDTOWN’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR has begun with many celebratory events to follow. We’ll have our usual alumni reconnect party at our current location in September and plans are afoot for a special old-timers get-together at the original Loomis Street site in the summer. Keep tuned!
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