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120 Days Chicago’s 10-year Plan to End Homelessness meant moving people from the street to permanent housing within 120 days. Seven years later, advocates now struggle to fulfill a plan critics say is unrealistic, underfunded and lacks sufficient housing.
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Double Trouble Even before the economic crisis began, black people were unemployed at twice the rate of their white counterparts.
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Unintended Consequences Temporary budget cuts lead to less treatment for drug-abusing parents and estrangement from their children.
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A Cocktail For Disaster How mismanagement, slothful government and a tight state budget killed a pioneering AIDS fund for Illinois’ black communities.
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Toxic Neighbor Health problems persist for Latinos living near coal plants in and around Chicago, despite the state’s efforts to promote clean air.
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Buy Organic* (Some Restrictions And Limitations Apply) Organic food is healthier and environmentally friendly—and rarely found in Chicago’s black neighborhoods.
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Suburbs Slow To Get On Board Officials find that, when it comes to welcoming immigrants, more action, less talk needed.
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Won't You Be My Neighbor? Mixed-income neighborhoods sound good in theory, experts say, but the reality is vastly different.
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Fatherhood Beyond Bars Programs aim to reinforce male inmates’ ties to family.
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A Long Journey Ahead Life’s experiences motivate one young man to give voice to youth
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The Unwelcome Wagon Middle-class homeowners clash with newcomers who they say disrupt the community.
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Mixed Results A landmark state initiative to improve immigrant integration presses on despite budget hurdles and bureaucracy.
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Families Still Waiting on CHA, Section 8 Lists Desperate for a place to live after losing their apartment in February, 45-year-old Mary Smiley and four of her children, ages 9 to 19, took a risk. Without a lease or permission, the family moved into a Chicago Housing Authority high-rise at 5247 S. Federal St., in the Robert Taylor Homes public housing development.
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Carbon copies Today’s Chicago resembles the deeply segregated city Martin Luther King Jr. encountered 40 years ago.
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Mall Envy Perception plays a significant role in the lack of shopping options at malls in South Side and south suburban areas.
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Adjusting to home The effects of a mother's incarceration last well beyond her release date.
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Just one question No longer a child, a former inmate’s daughter deals with father’s absence.
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Father's footsteps Ex-offender unable to steer his son from the same wrong turns he made.
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Forgotten People As CHA buildings fall, residents without leases are left with nowhere to stay, and many are women and children.
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Campaigns Vie for Suburban Latinos A shift of minorities has forced Democrats to pay attention to the collar counties in this election--and the strategy is paying dividends.
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One Year Later, CHA Program a Work in Progress A year after its launch, city officials are still struggling to define and implement an ambitious program to help public housing tenants get jobs and social services.
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Lottery Payoff Uncertain for Schools Despite the promise of bringing in more revenue for the state’s public schools, lottery money is not a bonus to schools, but just a regular part of the state’s education budget.
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Minority Faculty Finish Last on Tenure Track Four-year colleges and universities in the Chicago metropolitan area have made little progress on improving tenured faculty diversity since 1993.
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Asian Community 'Mentor' for Fairness -- and Builds Clout Sandra Otaka was widely praised for her legal and community work long before she became Cook County's first elected Asian judge.
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Never-ending cycle Illinois’ reliance on property taxes as the major source of school funding has major consequences for communities throughout the state.
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The fight about funding For many, school funding reform boils down to one question: Does more money equal better scores?
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Moment of Truth School funding reform advocates believe 2007 may be their best chance to force lawmakers to more evenly distribute public education dollars.
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Passing the torch Others have picked up where the Civil Rights Movement left off, but where have the black voices gone?
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Colorblind faith Despite their church’s discriminatory past, many black Mormons find comfort in their faith’s doctrine and its emphasis on family.
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Losing confidence As Woodlawn gentrifies, some of its poorest residents question whether neighborhood organizers are still on their side.
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Resisting the Dream While violence has all but ended, barriers to racial integration, like discrimination, stereotypes and intolerance, remain.
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