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September, 2007
In 1967, Barbara Moore moved into a high-rise building at 5266 S. State St., in the Robert Taylor Homes, with her two young sons. The new two-bedroom apartment was a step up from their old, rickety kitchenette a few miles away.
Many black families like Moore's were crowded into these one-room dwellings. At their worst, the kitchenettes were run-down units, fire-gutted buildings and...
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September, 2007
In a month she'd be homeless.
Edna Williams-Foreman wasn't sure why her landlords of 10 years called the meeting in October 1999. She and her 11 neighbors headed to the basement of their building at 54th and Woodlawn.
Their landlords had an announcement: They were moving to Memphis, Tenn. But not to worry---they weren't in a hurry. Before the building could be sold they had to complete...
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September, 2007
A shell of what it used to be, Chicago's youth employment program has seen its budget shrink and now helps only a few hundred teenagers get jobs and credentials---the program's two main goals. Representing a major shift in philosophy, the city's federally funded summer jobs program no longer exists. At its height in the 1980s, it provided more than 25,000 teenagers each year with minimum-wage...
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September, 2007
William Cox, 45, said his job transporting rental cars at O'Hare International Airport saved him. No one else would hire him, and his only other alternative was going back to the life that cost him seven yers in a federal penitentiary. (Photo by Mary Hanlon) Nearly three out of every five parolees in Illinois are without work---with even higher rates of joblessness on Chicago's...
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September, 2007
Kenny Young was charged as an adult for allegedly dealing drugs near a school. He was eventually sent back to juvenile court. But his mother, Addie, says her son is innocent and has resentment toward police. (Photo by Jason Reblando)
A series of heinous crimes committed by young people in the early 1980s spawned the idea of the super-predator. Seeing them as ruthless and unredeemable,...
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September, 2007
The number of teenagers automatically transferred to adult criminal court in Cook County has stayed relatively steady over the past five years, as have the types of offenses they are charged with committing. Teenagers chaged with drug crimes make up the biggest share.
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October, 2007
This article is the second installment in a four-part series focusing on school funding.
"Chicago Matters" is an annual public information series initiated and funded by The Chicago Community Trust, with programming by WTTW, Channel 11, Chicago Public Radio, the Chicago Public Library and the Reporter.
One Friday morning in early March, the auditorium at General George S. Patton...
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September, 2007
"We lost a lot of people last year," said Christopher Curtis, 36, a lifelong resident of the Harold Ickes Homes. "You don't ever hear about it in the news." Curtis knows the development---and its residents---well. Most days, he might be found coaching an Ickes youth soccer team, rounding up residents on a school bus for neighborhood police meetings or fretting endlessly about how the...
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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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