ALPHAWOOD FOUNDATION CHICAGO
ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: CHIRAG G. BADLANI
October 19, 2021 (CHICAGO) Alphawood Foundation Chicago announces Chirag G. Badlani as its Executive Director, effective November 8, 2021. Badlani succeeds Jim McDonough, who retired as Executive Director this month after leading the Foundation since 2012 and who will remain as legal counsel to the Foundation until next year.
Read MoreAugust 10, 2021 (CHICAGO) Alphawood Foundation today announced the retirement of its Executive Director Jim McDonough, effective on October 1, 2021.
Read MoreArchaeologists say they've found the long-lost capital of an ancient Maya kingdom near the border between Mexico and Guatemala.
The Sak Tz'i' kingdom was home to between 5,000 and 10,000 people in what is now Chiapas, Mexico, from about 750 BCE to 900 AD, Brandeis University associate professor of anthropology Charles Golden told CNN.
The kingdom wasn't particularly powerful and was surrounded by some of the superpowers of the day, Golden said. He said the Sak Tz'i' kingdom was frequently mentioned in inscriptions found in other cities.
"The reason we know about the kingdom from the inscriptions is because they get beat up by all these superpowers, their rulers are taken captive, they're fighting wars, but they're also negotiating alliances with those superpowers at the same time," he said.
Read MoreFor decades, archeologists have kept their eyes down to the ground as they slashed through jungles, attempting to spot traces left by lost civilizations like the Khmer Empire in Cambodia and the Maya in Mexico and Central America.
It's painstaking work that took entire careers to complete.
But now, archeologists -- or at least their tools -- are taking to the skies.
Read MoreThe Chicago Parks Foundation today announced that the first phase of the new AIDS Garden Chicago will be complete this Fall with the unveiling of a specially-commissioned 30-foot-high sculpture, Self-Portrait, by iconic HIV/AIDS activist and artist, the late Keith Haring. (Precise installation date to be announced). AIDS Garden Chicago will be the city’s first public monument to memorialize the early days of Chicago’s HIV epidemic and to honor those who continue to fight against the disease today. As previously released, the new 2.5-acre public lakefront garden will be located along Lake Michigan just south of Belmont Harbor, at the original location of the ‘Belmont Rocks,’ a space where the local gay community gathered between the 1960s and 1990s.
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