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September, 2007
Frederick Lucas was a 15-year-old eighth grader when he dropped out of school a year-and-a-half ago.
"I was always smart, book-wise," he said, shrugging. "Shit just wasn't right at home. I'd be sitting in class, wandering off, and end up doing no work. I just wasn't applying myself. I had too many issues at the time."
Frederick said his mother struggled with alcohol for most of...
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September, 2007
To many of its supporters, the death penalty helps balance the scales of justice. But on Jan. 31, Republican Gov. George H. Ryan–"a longtime proponent–"imposed a moratorium on executions and promised to review the state's capital punishment system.
"Until I can be sure that everyone sentenced to death in Illinois is truly guilty, until I can be sure with moral certainty that no innocent man...
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September, 2007
Sleet fell throughout the cold morning of Nov. 2, but the five guys handing out campaign literature outside St. Juliana school couldn't think of being anywhere else on Election Day. Pacing next to the walkway leading into the school, 7400 W. Touhy Ave. on Chicago's far Northwest Side, they tried to catch everyone headed inside to vote. They pressed three-inch-square sheets that said "PUNCH #49...
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September, 2007
Chicago is so commonly called an epicenter of the nation's asthma epidemic that it's become a cliché. The area's public health departments all know this.
Most of them just aren't doing much about it.
An investigation by The Chicago Reporter and Chicago Parent has found that, years after the area attracted national attention for its high asthma rates, little has been done by government...
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September, 2007
When 1-year-old London Mitchell suffered an asthma attack last year, emergency-room doctors helped her thrpugh the crisis but didn't tell her mother, Loretta, how to prevent another one. (Photo by Mary Hanlon)
Twelve-year-old Hiram Moss is in the back of the Mobile C.A.R.E. Foundation's Asthma Van one morning, insisting to several skeptics that he has been taking his medication.
Glancing...
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September, 2007
Child asthma is manageable---as long as the children who have it, and their parents, sit down with doctors to learn everything they can about the disease, map out treatment plans and carefully monitor how they're doing.
It's worked that way so far for Myles Gibbs and his parents, Keesha and Richard.
Myles, now 5, is a small-built, high-energy boy with thick curly hair and precocious verbal...
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September, 2007
Regina Green used to spend nights hoping her son Myron would stop coughing. In 1998, Myron entered his first winter with what seemed like a cold that wouldn't go away.
"He would get to the point where he would cough and cough and cough and start sweating," says Green, a friendly, talkative African American woman whose round face is dominated by hip, horn-rimmed glasses and a genuine gaze of...
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September, 2007
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