VIA Times – December 2020 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

Next year’s First Installment Cook County property tax bills are available at cookcountytreasurer. com so that property owners can make payments before the end of this year or plan their finances for 2021, Treasurer Maria Pappas said today. The First ...

The Catholic News Service reported today that Pope Francis said that Catholic can receive a plenary indulgence on Dec. 11 and 12 for their Marian devotion if certain conditions are followed. The news was announced today in a letter from ...

Filiflavors Creates New Opportunity for Filipino-Americans to Get Their Favorite Packaged Food Items Right to Their Doors SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Bianca Trinidad, the Founder, and Owner launched Filflavors. Filiflavors is a Pinay-owned e-commerce site that sells packaged curated boxes filled ...

Treasurer Maria Pappas today released a study which shows that the areas in Cook County where delinquent properties are a severe problem are losing population, experiencing larger property tax increases, and confronting high levels of violent crime, all of which ...

Kids have had a tough go of things throughout the pandemic. They’ve been schooled virtually, they’ve been distanced from their friends, and their birthday parties have been reduced to neighborhood drive-bys. Kids and parents alike are desperate for a sense ...

Three semi trucks carrying the first shipments of Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine left a factory in Michigan early Sunday, Dec 13, kicking off a historic project to stop a surging pandemic that is claiming more than 2,400 lives a day ...

• As Zoom classes replace the quad, half of surveyed colleges maintain policies that impermissibly restrict online speech — including almost 200 public institutions • National survey of 478 institutions finds 9 in 10 colleges restrict free speech in some ...