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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.
»Read More- Double Trouble
Even before the economic crisis began, black people were unemployed at twice the rate of their white counterparts.
»Read More - Unintended Consequences
Temporary budget cuts lead to less treatment for drug-abusing parents and estrangement from their children.
»Read More - A Cocktail For Disaster
How mismanagement, slothful government and a tight state budget killed a pioneering AIDS fund for Illinois’ black communities.
»Read More - Toxic Neighbor
Health problems persist for Latinos living near coal plants in and around Chicago, despite the state’s efforts to promote clean air.
»Read More - Buy Organic* (Some Restrictions And Limitations Apply)
Organic food is healthier and environmentally friendly—and rarely found in Chicago’s black neighborhoods.
»Read More - Suburbs Slow To Get On Board
Officials find that, when it comes to welcoming immigrants, more action, less talk needed.
»Read More - Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Mixed-income neighborhoods sound good in theory, experts say, but the reality is vastly different.
»Read More - Fatherhood Beyond Bars
Programs aim to reinforce male inmates’ ties to family.
»Read More - A Long Journey Ahead
Life’s experiences motivate one young man to give voice to youth
»Read More - The Unwelcome Wagon
Middle-class homeowners clash with newcomers who they say disrupt the community.
»Read More - Mixed Results
A landmark state initiative to improve immigrant integration presses on despite budget hurdles and bureaucracy.
»Read More - 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.
»Read More - Carbon copies
Today’s Chicago resembles the deeply segregated city Martin Luther King Jr. encountered 40 years ago.
»Read More - Mall Envy
Perception plays a significant role in the lack of shopping options at malls in South Side and south suburban areas.
»Read More - Adjusting to home
The effects of a mother's incarceration last well beyond her release date.
»Read More - Just one question
No longer a child, a former inmate’s daughter deals with father’s absence.
»Read More - Father's footsteps
Ex-offender unable to steer his son from the same wrong turns he made.
»Read More - Forgotten People
As CHA buildings fall, residents without leases are left with nowhere to stay, and many are women and children.
»Read More - 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.
»Read More - 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.
»Read More - 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.
»Read More - 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.
»Read More - 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.
»Read More - Never-ending cycle
Illinois’ reliance on property taxes as the major source of school funding has major consequences for communities throughout the state.
»Read More - The fight about funding
For many, school funding reform boils down to one question: Does more money equal better scores?
»Read More - Moment of Truth
School funding reform advocates believe 2007 may be their best chance to force lawmakers to more evenly distribute public education dollars.
»Read More - Passing the torch
Others have picked up where the Civil Rights Movement left off, but where have the black voices gone?
»Read More - Colorblind faith
Despite their church’s discriminatory past, many black Mormons find comfort in their faith’s doctrine and its emphasis on family.
»Read More - Losing confidence
As Woodlawn gentrifies, some of its poorest residents question whether neighborhood organizers are still on their side.
»Read More - Resisting the Dream
While violence has all but ended, barriers to racial integration, like discrimination, stereotypes and intolerance, remain.
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The Chicago Reporter is a publication of the Community Renewal Society, which also publishes Catalyst-Chicago and Catalyst-Ohio.
The Chicago Reporter is a publication of the Community Renewal Society, which also publishes Catalyst-Chicago and Catalyst-Ohio.
