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Chicago Matters: Beyond Burnham The nation's premier multimedia public affairs series.
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The Power Of Giving Since 1999, the combined political contributions from energy companies Ameren, Commonwealth Edison, Dominion, Dynegy, Edison International, Exelon, Midwest Generation, and NRG Energy totaled more than $6 million. The highest amounts were donated to some of the companies' political action committees, but several lawmakers received at least $200,000.
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More Loan For The Same Home African Americans, Latinos and women often pay more for mortgage loans than their white, Asian and male counterparts.
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Listen To City Voices: August 2008 Listen to a discussion on funding inequities for public schools and the calls for Chicago Public Schools students to boycott their first day of classes on Sept. 2.
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Making It Through The Day After the CeaseFire’s budget cut, the South Side community of Roseland is trying to cope with the resulting resurgence in violence.
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An Equal Opportunity To Pay More A [i]Chicago Reporter[/i] investigation shows that racial disparities in high-cost mortgage lending were pervasive throughout the nation in 2006.
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Lives In Mix-Income Communiities Listen to comments from experts on the CHA's mixed-income communities and hear what it's like to live in these communities
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The Real Cost of High-Cost Lending In one Chicago census tract in the largely African-American Roseland neighborhood, at least 80 percent of applicants received high-cost loans in 2006.
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Suburban Mortgage Gap Evanston leads 52 Chicagoland suburbs in high-cost lending rate disparity.
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The Air Apparent? Youth asthma hospitalizations are highest in suburbs, while city cases affect black youth at higher rate.
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Green Envy Despite all the talk of Chicago as the green city, the city does not look all that green for some residents.
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Candidates of Choice Each of the four frontrunners in the Democratic Primary for Cook County State’s Attorney fared well in different parts of the county.
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Cooking Up an Historic Victory Anita Alvarez found a recipe for winning wide support in her triumph in the tightly contested Democratic primary for Cook County State’s Attorney.
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Voterpalooza Nearly half of the more than 84,000 who’ve registered to vote in Chicago since September are younger than 30 years old.
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Lost Voters, Lost Voices Thousands of public housing residents fell off the voter rolls in Chicago during the first eight years of the Chicago Housing Authority’s $1.6 billion “Plan for Transformation.”
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Listen to City Voices: January 2008 Listen to a discussion on the housing challenges facing many low-income seniors in gentrifying Chicago neighborhoods and “Disappearing Act,” the cover story in the Jan/Feb 2008 issue.
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Lenders Maintain Racial Mortgage Gap In September, The Chicago Reporter revealed that African American homeowners in the Chicago metro area were nearly three times more likely to get “high-cost” loans than their white and Asian counterparts. Latinos were two times more likely to get high-cost loans than whites and Asians. A new Reporter analysis shows that the trends still hold, and that the region’s top 25 high-cost lenders are responsible for a significant portion of the racial gap.
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Elderly Prey Some mortgage lending experts say seniors are common targets for predatory lending practices. The Reporter shares two examples, along with tips from housing counselors to prevent problems.
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Hidden From Public View City lawyers have denied one alderman’s request to see the names of more than 600 police officers who logged the most complaints from residents. But now other aldermen say they’d like to see the list, too. Many of those officers are patrolling Chicago’s black neighborhoods.
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Locations, Locations The Chicago Reporter mapped nearly 900 Chicago addresses of stores whose parent companies were listed by Stores Magazine among the top-selling retailers in seven categories: supermarket, apparel, department store, home improvement, drug store, restaurant and value retailer, such as Costco and Target.
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The color of clout The political machine in Chicago that provided patronage jobs for political work, also kept black and Latino people from having as much job success as their white counterparts.
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SB1167 Illinois Senate Black Caucus cites Reporter data in letter supporting Senate Bill 1167.
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The CHA responds Responses offered by Chicago Housing Authority officials to questions raised by The Chicago Reporter for its "Six More Years" Web exclusive
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Six more years According to a draft version of the CHA's 2007 Annual Plan, the agency is pushing the deadline back six years to 2015.
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Reaction from Attorney General The Attorney General reacts to "The high price of home ownership".
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The High Price of Home Ownership According to an analysis by the Reporter, for three years in a row, the Chicago metro area has led the nation in high-cost loans.
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Loyola's Program Narrows its Focus Until this year, Loyola University Chicago's Asian and Asian American Studies program was praised in national academic circles for its focus on Asians in the United States.
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New bill, same debate It’s unclear how SB 1167 will affect the housing market now that the current proposal seeks to affect a larger area.
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Man of focus After spending a good portion of his life behind bars, Andrew "B.J." Atchison returned to Englewood and changed his life. He built a network of friends and opened a barbershop that's grown to become a "community water cooler" in the neighborhood.
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Losing children to violence Chicago has led the nation in youth murders the past several years.
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Dry Hydrants In 2006, the Chicago Department of Water Management, which manages the city’s estimated 47,000 fire hydrants, received 38,774 complaints about fire hydrants. A Chicago Reporter analysis shows that, in the summer months of June and July of last year, 96 percent of these service requests were due to illegally opened hydrants, and 90 percent of such incidents were reported in black and Latino wards.
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Listen to City Voices Eighteen-year-old Aaron Harrison was shot and killed on August 6 by Chicago police officers in the North Lawndale neighborhood. His death sparked angry protests for most of the next week. In this interview, Harrison’s aunt Ashunda Harris talks about the dramatically different versions of events held by many community members and that offered by the police.
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