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September, 2007
This is the third installment in a three-part series, for Chicago Matters: Beyond Borders, to explore the impact of immigration in Chicago and the region.
Chicago Matters is an annual public information series made possible by The Chicago Community Trust, with programming by WTTW 11, Chicago Public Radio, the Chicago Public Library, and the Reporter.
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September, 2007
While the Chicago Housing Authority will move more than 2,000 families this year as part of its transformation plan, its program to connect residents with jobs, day care and other social services is significantly understaffed, The Chicago Reporter has learned.
Many believe the situation could grow critical as more buildings come down for the authority's 10-year, $1.5 billion redevelopment...
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March, 2002
Marisol Flores sat in her kitchen, surveying the collection of documents spread across her dining table. “Every problem of my life is documented,” she said. She pulled out two Polaroid pictures. They show a bloodshot left eye about ready to pop out and a dark welt just below it. They were taken a month after her ex-husband, in a fit of rage, beat her severely enough to land her in an emergency...
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September, 2007
Amused that anyone would be interested, 82-year-old Willie Lee Johnson rattled off what her two young grandsons, 5-year-old T.J. and 3-year-old Dontre, do during the day while she cares for them in her large white wood-frame house in Englewood.
"They read, they sleep, they eat, they play," she said. "Then, they sleep again."
A lack of resources makes it difficult for her and other child...
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September, 2007
Both Clyde Moses and Paul Jones have used drugs for more than 20 years. At the height of his addiction, Moses used eight or nine bags of heroin a day. At his worst, Jones swallowed two heroin packets to avoid being arrested.
Both men have been arrested for possession of heroin. Both have been convicted. One is black, the other is white. But only one of them served prison time.
Moses, a...
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September, 2007
Conrad Worrill riles up the audience at a "reparations community forum" earlier this year. He recruits tirelessly for the reparations movement, and he doesn't really care if his ideas make people squirm. (Photo by Walter S. Mitchell III) The demonstration was small at first. It was a brisk morning, unseasonably cool for early May in Chicago, and by 8:30 about two dozen people, all of them...
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October, 2007
At the center of the elegant Hyatt Regency Hotel ballroom, past the strolling mariachis, past the grade school kids turning karate kicks, past the diners who had paid $300-a-plate admission, stood a raised VIP table that pulled together some of the political pashas of Chicago's burgeoning Latino community. Mayor Richard M. Daley, the night's guest of honor, was being feted for his leadership over...
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September, 2007
Garland Rutledge is a realist.
A hard life and nearly 30 years of cycling in and out of prison have left Rutledge, 44, with a thin frame and eyes shadowed by dark bags. Now all he wants is a job. But, in the two years since his most recent release from prison, he has not been able to find anything stable.
In March, he attended one of Chicago's few job-training programs specifically...
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September, 2007
Leslie Brown stands outside her West Side home, which she transformed into a recovery center for women recently released from prison. (Photo by Mary Hanlon)
In 1982, Leslie Brown went to prison for conspiring to murder her husband.
"It was my second husband, and I was in a domestic violence situation for many years, and I just couldn't take any more of his abuse," said Brown, who served...
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