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September, 2011
Census stats, homelessness and budget options were among the leading topics at The Chicago Reporter's Muckraker blog this week.
We continue to report about the increase in the number of poor people in the city. Eleven years ago, during its decennial count, the U.S. Census Bureau counted 556,791 individuals who fell below federal poverty thresholds in Chicago. In the agency's most recent...
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September, 2011
How will the City of Chicago close its operating budget deficit, estimated at $635 million for 2012? Joseph Ferguson, the city's inspector general, entered the budget fray this week, releasing a list of 63 different options council members and the mayor could utilize to raise revenue or cut spending.
Ferguson says he's not endorsing any one option, only that his "Budget Options for the City of...
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September, 2011
Among those who gathered yesterday at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to testify about Capital One bank's proposed acquisition of ING: federal regulators, corporate attorneys, nonprofit developers, policy analysts, community revitalization advocates, housing directors, small business operators and investment managers.
The acquisition is a huge deal after all, quite literally: the $9 billion...
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September, 2011
A smaller Chicago is seeing a greater percentage of its residents slip into poverty. That's one of the takeaways from new city- and state-level data the U.S. Census Bureau released last week.
The number of poor people in Chicago leaped by more than 40,000 between the 2000 Census and the 2010 American Community Survey, from 556,791 to 596,975.
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September, 2011
Lots of news about the Chicago Housing Authority hit The Chicago Reporter's Muckrakers blog this week. Much is at stake for the city's public housing system as it deals with a spate of controversies and challenges, and embarks on yet another round of staff changes.
On Thursday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that Charles Woodyard will take the reigns as chief executive officer of CHA, leaving his...
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September, 2011
Charles Woodyard, the new chief executive officer of the Chicago Housing Authority, will take the reigns of the agency at a tumultuous moment in its history.
Perhaps most significantly, the housing authority's Plan for Transformation is behind schedule, leaving empty lots scattered around redevelopment sites instead of new units in mixed-income communities.
Launched in 1999, the plan seeks to...
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September, 2011
For many Illinoisians arrested when they were juveniles, the novelist William Faulkner’s dictum that, “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past,” rings frustratingly true. Last year, WBEZ examined the state’s juvenile justice system. One set of stories featured young people who couldn’t access jobs as adults because they had been arrested years before....
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September, 2011
Whether market-rate units are included in the mix at a restructured Julia C. Lathrop Homes, a public housing development on the city’s North Side, is expected to be one of the major issues that arises during an upcoming planning process about the site. The development, which hugs the east bank of the Chicago River on... Read more »
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September, 2011
The Illinois Department of Human Services and the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, agencies that administer a range of programs meant to assist some of the state’ most vulnerable families, continue to struggle with cash flow issues, department officials said late last week. As a result, many providers and vendors the state hires... Read more »
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