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March, 2012
WMAQ’s Unit 5 Investigative Team, in partnership with The Chicago Reporter, chronicled the struggle of an Ecuadorian worker whose fight to recover owed wages is stuck in a bureaucratic logjam since 2009. The story was a follow-up to the Reporter's March/April investigation, "Punched," that detailed the long delay and steep odds in winning back full wages facing workers who file wage-theft claims...
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March, 2012
The Woodlawn Organization is closing its Entry House facility, despite the fact that the program has received millions of dollars in federal grants in the past several years.In a January piece by WMAQ's Unit 5 Investigative Team, several Entry House employees came forward with memos and pay stubs showing that they had not been paid for months, and they now say the facility was cloased as a...
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January, 2012
A well-known Chicago community organization is under investigation by two state agencies after WMAQ’s Unit 5 Investigative Team, in partnership with The Chicago Reporter, raised questions about its finances. The story is a follow-up to the Reporter's latest investigation, "Following Finney," in which we raised a series of questions about how two nonprofits overseen by clout-heavy minister...
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