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Licensed Care Lacking

Unlicensed child-care providers are concentrated in the city’s most impoverished—and racially isolated—neighborhoods.



Notes: Covers payments made as of September 2001. Does not include 581 providers whose subsidy payments are mailed to post office boxes in Chicago.
Sources: Illinois Department of Human Services, analyzed by The Chicago Reporter.


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