VIA Times – January 2016 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

By: Veronica Leighton   Lose weight, manage finances better, stop smoking/drinking/gambling (all kinds of vices under the sun), exercise religiously and stick to it, are just some of the most popular new year’s resolutions that people make and break around ...

CHICAGO – ComEd is warning customers to be on the alert for scam artists claiming to be a ComEd representative seeking payment. Over the last few weeks, the company has seen a tremendous increase in reports from small businesses and ...

By: Victoria G. Smith   What can I say that no one else has already said? All the stories, songs, and poems have already been sung and told. It’s hard to be original nowadays. So if anyone claims to be— ...

Newly-opened B.Bim Asian Eatery located at 1324 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, last January 16th. Shown in picture are owner & VT Fil-Am Eats columnist Aeron Lancero (2nd from right), and from left, Lori Bernardino Leonardo and husband Lorenzo Leonardo, Aeron ...

By: Richard Mirpuri   If a quarterback’s timing is off. . .he’s going to have a bad day with more interceptions than touchdowns. That’s clearly evident in some of the National Football League games you watch each week. If a basketball ...

By: Melody Dizon   Dropping temperatures are already here. People are more indoors, people are sneezing, coughing or calling off work. Sounds like the theme for the flu months. I often get this question a lot. How do I know ...

      By: Christian & ChaCha Miranda Opening the Christmas gifts at Lolo Joe’s and Lola Veronica’s house are, from left, Christian, Bobby, Veronica, Christy and Maya Leighton. Happy new year from the Rivas family, from left: Nicole, David, Isabellla, ...

By: Joe Mauricio   2016 is the birth of Filipino Dream. — a dream of a land of Paradise or Shangrila, in which life should be better, richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunities for each achievement and achiever. It ...

By: Lou Maningas Cabalona   Scanning the room as soon as I entered, I looked for a woman I distinctly remember from an audition video that became viral which I saw a couple of years ago. The video captioned, “Pinay ...

By: Mark Javier   Illinois rings in 2016 with many new laws that go into effect this year. Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office initiated several key laws of note, in a December 29, 2015 press release her office announced the following: ...