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January, 2013
Just before Jeff Kelly Lowenstein’s 2009 nursing home investigation hit the press, the story became all too real with the sudden death of an elderly African-American man named Bennie.Bennie Saxon, an 84-year-old with dementia, fell from a four-story window at Alden Wentworth Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Greater Grand Crossing on the city’s South Side. Business practices at the...
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January, 2013
Shortly after The Chicago Reporter published its latest investigation into mortgage lending practices in 2007, it received a call from an unexpected place: Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office.Madigan was interested in the Reporter’s data analysis that showed high-cost loans were being steered disproportionately toward African-American and Latino applicants. She used the Reporter’s...
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January, 2013
When Sarah Karp looks back on her 2000 investigation into Illinois’ juvenile transfer law, what she remembers is a series of images: 15- and 16-year-olds walking into criminal courtrooms at 26th Street and California Avenue, where they were being tried as adults. She couldn’t help but think they seemed completely out of place.“You’d just feel like, ‘Now, that’s a baby at that age, and yet they’re...
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January, 2013
Alden K. Loury came to The Chicago Reporter as a staff reporter in 1999. He became senior editor in 2002 and spearheaded more than 50 investigations before assuming the role of editor and publisher six years later. In 2009, he was a recepient of the Studs Terkel Community Media Award for excellence in covering Chicago’s diverse communities. In 2011, he returned to his reporting roots as a senior...
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January, 2013
Alysia Tate began covering government and politics for The Chicago Reporter in 1998. Three years later, after a brief stint as senior editor, she became the editor and publisher. In 2008, she was named chief operating officer at Community Renewal Society, the Reporter’s parent organization. Tate is now an independent consultant on communications and public policy issues. Did historical events...
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November, 2012
For a few years now, Mississippi’s juvenile justice system and the U.S. Department of Justice have been close acquaintances for all the wrong reasons.One of the first encounters came in 2002, when the justice department looked into two of the state’s facilities for holding juvenile offenders—the Columbia Training School and the Oakley Training School—and discovered harmful conditions, such as...
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September, 2012
In July, Gabriel Navarro stood inside the ring at the Chicago Youth Boxing Club, absorbing the punches thrown by one of his students. The two sparred, following each other around the ring and fighting to gain the upper hand.Fifteen years ago, Navarro was the one throwing the punches, taking official boxing lessons for the first time at the age of 18. Looking back now, Navarro says boxing was one...
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