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Chicago, IL 60611 Call: 312-222-3540 or e-mail: How to contact us By Gerry Doyle Tribune staff reporter The celebration of Robert life will not be confined to a church or even his namesake bar, said son Bobby, who runs the bar. On Tuesday, Chicago will shutDivision Street from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. between Dearborn and State Streets, officials said Monday. Tents will be set up outside the bar, at 20 W.

Division and an open microphone will be available for those who wish to say a few words, McGuire said. The Shannon RoversIrish Pipe Band will perform, he added. The event will be private from 4 to 8 p.m. McGuire saidhe expected the crowd to easily fill the space being set aside. hard to he said.

I have a feeling going to be quite a Butch McGuire, who opened his bar in a former burlesque club in the 1960s, brought it to local prominence by providing a young North Side professionals. But his health suffered over the years, and after several heart attacks, he underwent a heart transplant in 1995. He and his wife, Mary Jo, eventually bought a second home in Rochester, so he could be near doctors at the Mayo Clinic. Although his health problems slowed him down, he still was deeply involved with the bar, checking in or dropping by every day, his son said. Butch McGuire, 76, died of heart failure last week.

Block party memorial for Butch McGuire By Diane Rado Tribune staff reporter At Harlan Community Academy High School, Principal Gertrude Hill has been adding Advanced Placement classes since 2003, trying to expose as many as possible of her low-income black students to challenging courses that prepare them for college. Monday, she found out get help from the state with her goal. The Illinois State Board of Education awarded in grants to Harlan and 27 other schools and districts trying to pump up their Advanced Placement programs. The money can be used to expand course offerings, train educators to teach the college- level coursesand coordinate with middle schools to prepare children in earlier grades for Advanced Placement classes in high school. In all, 12 public schools in Chicago and eight districts based in Aurora, Elgin, Waukegan, Carpentersville, Oak Lawn, South Holland and Crete received grants.

The grant amounts been finalized, but individual schools will get no more than $40,000 and districts no more than $100,000, state education officials said. Harlan applied for about $40,000 and expects to use at least half of it for teacher training. have wonderful, dedicat- edyoung teachers, but they have never taught a college-level course Hill said. Training includes everything from broadening what a teacher knows about a Advanced Placement subject to learning how the tests are scored, so students know which areas to practice, said Trevor Packer, the head of Advanced Placement at the College Board, the non-profit group that runs the program. A recent study by the group showed minority students are underrepresented in the classes.

The state grants awarded Monday were designated for schools or districts where at least 40 percent of students come from low-income families. In the predominantly Hispanic Aurora East district, students have access to only one Advanced Placement course, though six more courses are scheduled for the fall, said administrator Brooke Young. The district applied for about $19,000 and was among the districts awarded a grant Monday. The grants stemmed from legislation approved in 2005 to boost student enrollment and better prepare teachers in Advanced Placement programs. State Sen.

Miguel del Valle (D- Chicago), who sponsored the legislation, said Monday he hopes the program will grow beyond the is a small amount of money. It has to he said. got to challenge kids. got sharp kids out Grants to schools bolster Advanced Placement classes By Antonio Olivo Tribune staff reporter Humboldt Park has long advertised its ethnic heritage with two Puerto Rican flags, 50-ton steel sculptures arching over Division Street. Now, even as soaring rents and home prices threaten to push out its shrinking Puerto Rican community, the Northwest Side neighborhood is planning a museum meant to further define it as the Puerto Rican capital of the Midwest.

The Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, which broke ground Monday, will be the only museum in the U.S. mainland dedicated exclusively to the Caribbean heritage, its officials said. Other Puerto Rican museums outside the island, such as El Museo del Barrio in New York City, have recently begun to include work from throughout Latin America. are going to be the premier museum outside of Puerto said Ald. Billy Ocasio (26th)at a ceremony in front of the landmark Humboldt Park Stables, where $7 million in renovations will convert that Queen Anne-style building into the institute.

is a national museum where people are going to come and visit from all over the There are about 151,000 Puerto Ricans in the six-county Chicago area. Expected to open in the fall of 2007, the museum is the latest in a series of developments that emphasize Humboldt Puerto Rican identity. Earlier this year, the Midwestern office of the Puerto Rican Federal Affairs equivalent of a consulate for those newly arrived from the U.S. onto Division Street from its former downtown headquarters. On Tuesday, a formal dedication is scheduled for the newly built Teresa Roldan Paseo Bor- icua Apartments, a Division Street building of senior apartments whose architecture resembles that of Old San Juan.

Such changes are proof of how far the Humboldt Park area has progressed since the days when it was known as a place of poverty and government neglect, said U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez who attended the groundbreaking. During the 1980s, for instance, the Humboldt Park Stables site was used by the city as a garbage transfer station, he said. almost as if, 20 years ago, they were saying you deserve our Gutierrez said.

saying you must respect this place. Not only must you respect it, show you the most beautiful parts of our community, the arts and the Jorge Felix, the program director, said the institute will feature artists from Chicago, Puerto Rico and other parts of the country. The building will include a theater, performance space, a central courtyard and two floors of exhibition space. Much of the work will be interactive, incorporating multimedia technology, he said. Among the themes for a first exhibit: gentrification.

is an issue that is going to be hard to get away Felix said. Tribune photo by David Klobucar Chicago Ald. Billy Ocasio (left) and U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez on Monday appear together for the groundbreaking of the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture in Humboldt Park.

Puerto Rican culture to have a new showcase is a national museum where people are going to come and visit from all over the Billy Ocasio (26th).