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12/19/11 – The Salvation Army to Host Full Week of Christmas Distributions Across Chicago

12/03/11 – The Salvation Army and Marshfield Plaza Present FREE Christmas Event for South Side Families

07/26/11 – 20 Blue Island and Roseland Students Awarded Back-to-School Shopping Spree from Target and The Salvation Army

07/23/11 – FREE Salvation Army Back-to-School Health Fair and Gospel Concert Helps Kids Prepare for August School Start

05/12/11- Salvation Army Places Final Steel Beam on Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center

01/28/11 – Salvation Army Launches Live Construction Webcam of Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center

01/06/2011 - South Side Youth in The Salvation Army Kroc Corps Singing Company Sing at Inauguration of Governor Pat Quinn

12/16/2010 - Gold Coin Dropped Into Salvation Army Red Kettle In South Suburb; A First For Red Kettle Campaign

12/15/2010 - Salvation Army Teams Up with Marshfield Plaza Shopping Center to Present Special Christmas Event for Area Families

10/7/10 – Salvation Army Breaks Ground on Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center

10/6/10 – CharitaBulls donates $1 million to help create Salvation Army Kroc Center

9/30/10 – White Sox Charities grants Salvation Army $1 million

7/29/10 - South Side Youth Compete in Salvation Army Golf Tournament

7/24/10 - FREE Salvation Army Back-to-School Health Fair and Gospel Concert Helps Kids Prepare for
August School Start


6/22/10 - West Pullman Youth Plant Community Garden at Salvation Army Green Day Camp

6/22/10 - South Side Youth Have Rare Opportunity to Learn Golf at Salvation Army Sports Day Camp

6/05/10 - The Salvation Army Joins Mayor Richard M. Daley and Alderman Carrie Austin at the Marshfield Plaza
Shopping Center Peace Rally

10/16/09 – Kids in The Salvation Army Green Club at Higgins Community Academy Host 2nd Annua
l Farmer’s Market

07/23/09 - Free Salvation Army Back-to-School Health Fair and Gospel Concert Helps Kids Prepare for August
School Start

06/15/09 – West Pullman Youth Plant Community Garden During Green Day Camp

06/10/09 - Salvation Army Reaches 90 Percent of First Fundraising Goal for Ray and Joan Kroc Corps
Community Center

05/28/09 - West Pullman Elementary Students Honored at Salvation Army Sunbeams and Adventure Corps Court
of Awards Ceremony

03/23/09 - The Chicago Kroc Center Approved for $500,000 from The Searle Funds at The Chicago
Community Trust

01/15/09 - Kids in West Pullman Host Inauguration Assembly To Honor President-Elect Barack Obama

10/13/08 - Kids Team Up with Benny the Bull to Get Fit at the Energizabulls Health Assembly

10/13/08 - West Pullman Kids Team Up with Local Farm to Host First Neighborhood Farmer’s Market

06/30/08 – The Salvation Army Announces $5 Million Lead Gift for the Capital Campaign to Build the Ray and Joan
Kroc Corps Community Center in Chicago

11/06/07 – The Salvation Army Announces The Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Chicago

11/06/07 – Kroc Center Project Approved for Final Development Phase (USA Central Territory Press Release)

 

 

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