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April, 2013
She could tell by the way the phone rang.“I was at work. I was actually in a meeting. Something about the way the phone rang. … I said, ‘Let me get this phone call,’” Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton recalled.She picked up the phone. What would follow was a story that became known across the nation. The call was from a friend of her daughter, Hadiya. “She was screaming and crying—and the squeals and...
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April, 2013
The debate over how to stop the bloodshed in Chicago headed south in March as Illinois lawmakers took up a bill that would put more people with guns behind bars—for longer time.There is a logic behind HB 2265, which was introduced by state Rep. Michael Zalewski, a Democrat from west suburban Riverside. The argument: that felons, gang members and just about anyone convicted of carrying a loaded...
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March, 2013
Jorge Mariscal was on dialysis for seven years before receiving a life-saving kidney in December. Because of his legal status, the 24-year-old undocumented man could not be put on the organ transplant list. But his mother, Sonia Lopez, would not give up. Lopez and several other mothers in similar circumstances submitted letters to hospital boards, conducted marches and went on a hunger strike for...
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February, 2013
"The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.”The Bible’s entire 23rd Psalm is written in marker, framed on the yellowed stucco wall, next to the red flyswatter hanging from a nail. Cans of food line the shelf in the tiny coat closet, a makeshift pantry.The psalm is a reminder to keep going when times get tough, said Curtis Horton, 48. He and his partner, Henrietta Riley, 54, are residents of the...
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March, 2013
Henrietta Riley opens her closet door to reveal canned goods and other food items. Storage space is limited in the single-room occupancy unit she shares with her partner Curtis Horton. “It’s not much, but it’s ours,” she said. A handwritten inscription of “Psalm 23” hangs on one wall. Small appliances line another. Photos by Jonathan Gibby.
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February, 2013
For the last three and a half years, Ondelee Perteet has been fighting his own body. He was shot in the jaw in September 2009, the bullet severing his spine. The doctors diagnosed him a quadriplegic and said he’d never again be able to move anything below his neck.But Perteet has been winning one small battle after another. The movement of a finger on his left hand has led to the use of that...
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February, 2013
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February, 2013
In 2009, when Ondelee Perteet was 14, he was shot in the jaw at a birthday party on Chicago's West Side. The bullet severed his spine, paralyzing him from the neck down. His doctors told him that he would never walk again, but three years later, he is beginning to walk with the help of crutches.Too Young to Die is a long-term documentary photography project, now in its sixth year. All...
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January, 2013
A Chicago judge denied an immigration prosecutor’s request last week for an “administrative closure” of a deportation proceeding against Sebastian Pineda, a Mexican immigrant whose case was chronicled by The Chicago Reporter in August.The decision threw a wrench into the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s stuttering effort to carry out a 2011 directive by John Morton, the agency’s...
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