Wildly Disparate Funding
Illinois’ reliance on local property taxes to fund schools is one of the nation’s highest and has led to massive cumulative gaps in per-pupil spending, shows an analysis by The Chicago Reporter. > Read Article
- Transportation Woes New findings on the region's transportation system were released at an event co-hosted by The Metropolitan Planning Council and The Chicago Reporter. > Read Article
- More On The Road More people in the region are spending a minimum of two hours for their daily commute. > Read Article
- A Renter's Nightmare Foreclosures burn tenants who find themselves wrongfully evicted when their landlords can’t keep up with the payments. > Read Article
- 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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Table of Contents
- Making It Through The Day
- Listen to City Voices: August 2008
- Wildly Disparate Funding
- A Renter's Nightmare
- Methodology (A Renter's Nightmare)
- Tips For Renters Caught Up In Foreclosure
- Black Areas At Highest Risk
- Rental Runaround
- D.C. Renters Buffet Storm
- Renters Squeezed Out
- Suburbs Slow To Get On Board
- Methodology (Suburbs Slow To Get On Board)
- Unity Through Dialogue
- Working Hard Or Hardly Working
- Editor's Note: July-August 2008
- Reporter Impact: July-August 2008
- Letter to the Editor: July-August 2008
- Not All Arrests Lead To Deportation
- A Bumpy Ride
- Leaving A Bad Taste
- Watch NBC5-The Chicago Reporter Special Report
- Guarding Against Food-Borne Illness
- Fast Facts About Salmonella
- Shootings Increase After CeaseFire’s Budget Cut
- Divine Inspiration
- Parting Shot: July-August 2008
Aug 8The Chicago Reporter’s Fernando Diaz has been awarded the 2008 Emerging Journalist of the Year from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Diaz will be honored at the association’s 23rd annual Noche de Triunfos Journalism Awards Gala held Sept. 12 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
