Social Justice at Loyola

By Tyler Langan, The Phoenix

Chicago’s 24th police district — which includes Rogers Park — has had 709 cases of violent crime in the past year and nine murders in 2012, according to the Chicago Police Department. In order to raise awareness of the city’s growing violence, community anti-violence groups held a peace march on Thursday, Aug. 30 in Rogers Park. Organizers from groups such as Organization of the NorthEast, A Work of Faith Ministries Inc. and Ceasefire were involved in putting the march together, which approximately 350 people attended…

by Anna Heling
Loyola alumnus George McGraw had his “aha moment” while standing around a well rig in South Sudan. As the co-founder and director of DigDeep, a nonprofit organization that works to protect and promote the human right to water, 25-year-old McGraw was on a field visit to start up a community well in 2011…