Marta Farion - president of Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America
Marta Farion is Ukrainian American who was born in Rome, Italy. She spent her early childhood years in Buenos Aires, Argentina, then moved to Chicago, USA. Marta Farion has over 20 years experience as a corporate attorney. She is one of the leaders of the reputable Ukrainian Community in Chicago. She is the vice-president of UCCA - Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Illinois Division and she is also on the National Board of UCCA.
One of her biggest passions in life is education. She is the president of Kiev Mohyla Foundation of America - kmfoundation.org and the chairperson of the board of Electronic Library of Ukraine. Marta Farion has been 13 years the chairperson of the Chicago- Kiev Sister Cities Committee. In 2018 she was elected to the board of directors of the Western NIS Enterprise Fund – a US fund that invests in reform-focused programs to support Ukraine.
Marta Farion is also e member of Chicago Bar Association, Ukrainian American Bar Association, Filed Museum Women’s Board, University Club, Chicago Council on Global Affair’s President’s Circle, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and served on the board of Chicago Grant Park Music Festival for 15 years. She is a champion in advancing the Ukrainian interests in the USA and often travels to Washington D.C. to meet congressmen and senators.
History of the Illinois National Guard
Created in collaboration with the National Guard Association of Illinois and the Illinois State Military Museum
UnCommon Core | Chicago: Origins and Vistas of a Mexican City
Alumni Weekend 2012
UnCommon Core
June 1, 2012
Chicago: Origins and Vistas of a Mexican City
Mauricio Tenorio
Professor, Department of History
Sarah Lopez
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of History
It may be an exaggeration to say that Chicago is today one of the largest Mexican cities, but not untrue. There are an estimated 1.3 million Mexicans/Mexican-Americans residing in the Chicago metropolitan area. With large populations of Mexicans historically living in the American west and southwest why is it that by 1920 nearly 16,000 Mexicans called Chicago, a cold and far away city, their new home? The origins of Mexican Chicago are at the roots of the 20th-century's de facto economic and demographic integration between the U.S. and Mexico, and the so-called Mexican problem in 20th-century United States. It was in Chicago where, through the pioneering studies by University of Chicago sociologists, Mexican immigration was scientifically, and strategically, defined both as a problem and not as a problem. This session will provide historic insights on this fascinating interaction among immigrants, social organizations, and social scientists in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s. And it will jump to the present to provide vistas of the input of the Mexican presence in the architectonical landscape of Chicago, the architectonical city par excellence. This session is co-sponsored by the Latino Affinity Network.
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Rising Above: The National Czech and Slovak Museum
This is a powerful story about the immigrant experience, a city with strong roots in the Czech and Slovak traditions, a people and a culture who have persevered, a community proud of its heritage, and a museum that was literally lifted out of the devastating flood of 2008 into a stronger existence and presence not only within Cedar Rapids and the United States, but also internationally.
Home of the World's Tallest Man... and More!
Becky is out of the hospital and we are on the move! Today we visit Alton, IL., the hometown of Robert Wadlow, The Tallest Man in the World. We see a few other sites in the town and even see The World's Largest Catsup Bottle!
Patriarch Sviatoslav at USCCB in Washigton D.C.
The Ukrainian Catholic Church world leader speaking at US Conference Catholic Bishops.
Ярослава Джонсон. З Чикаґо до України · Ukraїner
Цим матеріалом ми розпочинаємо серію оповідей «Країна ззовні». Ця серія не про успішну імміграцію, а радше, про людей, які виїхали за кордон з різних причин, але почали усіляко допомагати Україні: створюючи міждержавні проєкти, ділячись досвідом здобутим за кордоном, об’єднуючись в українські товариства та поширюючи українську культуру по всьому світу.
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Ярослава Зелінська-Джонсон — фахівчиня з корпоративного права, яка з часів незалежності України допомогла багатьом міжнародним корпораціям розпочати тут бізнес та інвестувати в місцеві підприємства. З 2015 року вона очолює американський фонд, який інвестує в економічний розвиток України та Молдови. Маючи громадянство США і проживши там більшу частину життя, Ярослава повернулася до України, щоб зміцнювати її економічно та виховувати нове покоління лідерів.
Chicago Tonight full episode: January 7, 2020
The push to ban isolation rooms in Illinois public schools. The impeachment process resumes for Congress. Plus: marijuana vaping, intermittent fasting and money management for high school students.
Archival Footage of Religious Life in Munkács
Archival footage of Munkács from the early 1930s from outtakes of the March of Time film series. This segment shows children learning in a traditional cheder as well as rabbis exiting from the beit midrash (study house).
The footage appears as part of the exhibition A Jewish Community in the Carpathian Mountains: The Story of Munkács on the Yad Vashem website.
Footage courtesy of the National Archives and the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Naturalization Oath Ceremony
Mayor Rahm Emanuel commemorated Presidents' Day by hosting a Naturalization Ceremony at Chicago's City Hall. The ceremony paid tribute to the values and ideals put forth by our nation's forefathers.
Dr Toyos For U S Senate
Dr. Toyos is running for the United States Senate in 2018. Rolando Toyos, M.D. is the Founder and CEO of Toyos Clinic a medical and surgical eye care practice that was started in Tennessee in 1998. The Clinic started with one clinic and 2 employees and has now grown to 5 clinics winning Inc. Magazine’s Fastest Growing Companies in the United States.
Dr. Toyos was born in New York City and moved to Santa Rosa, California when he was 10. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from The University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, where he was a straight A student and involved in campus politics and community outreach. During that time he coordinated events raising money for A Safe Place, a domestic violence services and shelter. He also volunteered his time to tutor and coach at the local high schools. Before beginning medical school, Dr. Toyos worked as a full time high school science teacher and basketball coach. He won the National Teaching Award from Columbia University for his science curriculum development and his work with at-risk children.
He then received his medical degree at the University of Illinois where he was Class President and a James Scholar. He was active in the community receiving an award for helping Chicago City Public Schools develop a pre-med program for students interested in medicine. He also was active in the Republican Party including working as an Election Judge in his local precinct.
He completed his internship in Internal Medicine at Illinois Masonic Hospital in Chicago. He completed his Ophthalmology residency at Northwestern University. During that time he continued to help pre-med students realize their dreams of becoming a doctor by tutoring, lecturing, and writing a best selling book for Pre-Meds, The Insider’s Guide to Medical School Admissions.
Dr. Toyos is Board Certified in Ophthalmology and specializes in Cataract Surgery, LASIK, Glaucoma, and Dry Eye. He is one of the most experienced surgeons in the country, completing over 35,000 cataract surgeries, 20,000 glaucoma laser treatments and 25,000 LASIK surgeries. He was selected as a Top Doctor by Castle Connolly Medical and Trusted Lasik and Cataract Surgeons. He is the inventor of the procedure Intense Pulse Light IPL for Dry Eye Disease and wrote a best selling book on Dry Eye Disease Treatment. His expertise in Ophthalmology has offered him the opportunity to travel to many different parts of the world to teach other surgeons and interact with foreign business people. He has traveled to Israel, Japan, China, Central America, South America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ukraine and several countries in Europe.
He continued to be active in politics here in Tennessee including running for a Shelby County Commission Seat where he won the Republican primary but eventually losing to the Democratic incumbent.
Dr. Toyos is involved in the community. He won The Humanitarian Award by the Jazz Foundation of America for providing free surgical care to the displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina. He and his wife, Dr. Melissa Toyos who also is an award winning Ophthalmologist and partner at the clinic, started the non-profit organization Toyos Foundation to provide free health care to the underserved and provide funds to schools. He volunteers his time to Eye Care America, a national program that provides eye care to the poor. The clinic has completed mission trips to Nicaragua, Honduras, Columbia and Haiti. He has been a board member of Ballet Memphis and the Memphis Rock & Soul Museum. He is a current board member of The Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
He has won several community awards like, CEO of the Year Inside Memphis Business, Leadership Award from National Hispanic Professional Organization, The Memphis Business Journal's Top 40 Under 40, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Memphis Finest, and Entrepreneur of the Year by the Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
For fun, Dr. Toyos loves spending time with his wife and three girls.
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Natural history museum @ Oxford UK
Reading Museum's natural history collection consists of more than 200,000 biological and geological specimens. The Green Space gallery displays rocks, fossils, insects, animal and plant specimens, to show how Reading’s environment has evolved over millions of years into the landscape we see today. The displays also reflect the biodiversity of the Reading area and the interests of local collectors going back to 1883.
Awesome Ukrainian yodeler - SOFIA SHKIDCHENKO (with English subtitles)
UKRAINE'S GOT TALENT. KIDS (2017)
She taught me to yodel
#SofiaShkidchenko #yodel
Chicago Tonight full episode: January 9, 2020
More fallout from an email scandal tied to a confidant of House Speaker Michael Madigan. The economy in 2020. The latest on a pair of coyote attacks in the city. And the royal split known as “Megxit.”
Donald Trump Remarks to the Polish American Congress FULL Speech 9/28/16
Donald Trump Remarks to the Polish American Congress. Donald Trump is pledging if elected to work with Poland to strengthen NA.
Trump is speaking to Polish-Americans in Chicago. He's praising Poland for paying its fair share to collective defense under NA. Trump had been criticized earlier in the campaign for describing NA as obsolete and questioning the U.S. commitment to the alliance. But Trump says he's helping NA by putting pressure on it to focus on terrorism.
Trump also touched on other campaign themes, promising he'll be the greatest president for jobs that God ever created.
Chicago Tonight full episode: November 13, 2019
Takeaways from the first day of public impeachment hearings. How prosecutors can make a difference in fighting gun violence. And a legendary music group collaborates with a local theater company.
HalynaMyroslavaJump/ГалинаМирослава Стрибок
Thanks to Yukhim Kharabet or Yefim Harabet,
( July 29, 1929, the village of Anadol',Donetsk Region - 2004, Mariupol, Donetsk Region) -a famous Ukrainian medalist, Greek,was born in a peasant family. He graduated from Mariupol school and worked as a seamen in the Navy. Worked on lands during the campaign in their assimilation
In 1963 he returned to Mariupol.
Since 1970 - Director of Mariupol art workshops.
Since 1978 - a member of the National Union of Artists of USSR.
1993 - Honored Artist of USSR.
1997 - Honorary Citizen of Mariupol
1999 - The order For merits» III century.
He took part in a lot of exhibitions.
1981 - in Aden (Yemen)
1882 - participated in the 15th Berynh's sea expedition and exhibition
1985, 1989 - in Magdeburg (Germany)
1991 - in Moscow, in the House of Peoples' Friendship
1993 - in Atlanta on the 2nd festival Slavonic Bazaar
2002 - in Paris at the exhibition World Federation medal art.
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Severyn Borachok, Северин Борачок (1898,Sorots'ke, Terebovlia District, Ternopil' Region,Ukraine - 1975,Richmond,USA). His father was a priest.After high school he studied at Cracow Academy of Fine Arts and in Paris .. Organized Ukrainian Museum in Terebovlia , which was opened on August 30, 1933.
It is known that he lived and worked in Paris in the early 1930s.He founded After World War II he settled in Munich, where he became a close friend of Gregor Kruk. After the death of his wife in 1962, Borachok decided to move to the United States of America. In 1965 he moved to Richmond, Maine. Between 1969-1972, Borachok exhibited his works in Toronto, Buffalo, Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago. The exhibitions were organized by his brother, Maryan Borachok. The artist died in Maine in 1975.
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Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Eмануель Мане-Кац ,born Mane Leyzerovich Kats, (1894,Kremenchuk,Ukraine-- 1962,Haifa, Israel)
Mane-Katz was Jewish.In the years 1911-13 he studied at Kiev Art College, then moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. There he became friends with Pablo Picasso and other important artists, and was affiliated with an art movement known as the Jewish School of Paris.
In 1931, Mane-Katz's painting, The Wailing Wall, was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World's Fair. Early on, his style was classical and somber, but his palette changed in later years to bright, primary colors, with an emphasis on Jewish themes. His oils feature Hassidic characters, rabbis, Jewish musicians, beggars, yeshiva students and scenes from the East European shtetl.
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Hrihorii Synytsia or Hryhory, Hryhoriy Sinitsa,Григорій Синиця (1908, Odesa, Ukraine - 1996). In 1914 he fell ill on the hip joint ankylosis, and then back fever, had been ill but recovered leaving the hospital for the disabled children (although the leg was almost 20 cm shorter hip and bent parts of the skeleton).
Innovator, inventor, leader, he had to live during the endless changes, suffer pain recognition for what would be a Ukrainian artist all life to go Blade, die and resurrect. Surviving three changes of regime, revolution, war, two famines, the struggle of an independent art, the Soviet press was accused of bourgeois formalism but he was not broken by the system, and remained independent in the works, plastic figurative and picturesque language. He graduated from a thorny path in the age of 88 (10 October 1996) to free Ukraine, where he was recognized for life, which unfortunately did not happen with many outstanding sons of Ukraine
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Mykola Samokysh or Samokish (Микола Самокиш)
(1860,Nizhyn, Chernihiv Region,Ukraine - 1964, Simferopol, the Crimea,Ukraine).During his studies at St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1879 - 1885) he belonged to the Ukrainian group of artists (S. Vasilkovsky, P. Martinovich, O. Slastion) who set out to recreate historical events and national peculiarities of life and the life of Ukrainian people. In 1886 - 1889 years studied in Paris. Returning from abroad, painted several paintings for Tyflis military-historical museum.In 1894 - 1917's led the battle of Petersburg Academy workshop (from 1913 was a professor and full member). From 1919 he lived in the Crimea. In 1938 the head of battle and historical workshopsat Kharkiv and Kyiv Art Institute.
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Halyna Myroslava Jump
Галина Мирослава Стрибок
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все ніколиться
мчиш за часом
жердь для стрибка завжди в тобі
серце вузлує заразом
але ти чуєш плі
і починаєш біг свій
в жгут затиснувши жаль
буде вино чи попіл
планка
там планка
рай
вистрибом взліт угору крила б
не в тому суть
стачить чи ні напору
а чи не підведуть
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Chicago Tonight full episode: Sept. 26, 2019
The latest on the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. Will Chicago Public Schools teachers strike? And the Chicago film expert on her new role as a host on Turner Classic Movies.
Chicago Tonight full episode: October 10, 2019
The latest on impeachment. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. The rising rate of heart disease. Meet a nun competing in the Chicago Marathon. And dead monarch butterflies on the lakefront.
Chicago Tonight full episode: January 16, 2020
The latest on the impeachment trial. The debate over banning plastics in Chicago restaurants. Some sticking points between teachers and CPS. Local efforts to help earthquake victims in Puerto Rico.