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Fast-Track Deportations

Thousands are being deported without a chance to appear before an immigration judge.

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Help Wanted: City's Summer Jobs Program Falls Short for Some Teens

July, 1999 The government's $12.9 million effort falls short of its goal of preparing disadvantaged youth for the world of work by providing education and job skills. The Chicago Reporter delves into an analysis of the city's program from 1996 to 1999.

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Help Wanted: City's Summer Jobs Program Falls Short for Some Teens

Alysia TateChicago's federally funded summer jobs program provides positions for more than 15,000 low-income teens. But some of those most at need are not being reached.
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Inside Stories

Jobs Program Grew out of Civil Rights Struggle

The federal summer jobs program is a child of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. In 1963, police were spraying tear gas on demonstrators in Savannah, Ga., using electric cattle prods on protesters in Gadsden, Ala., and turning police dogs and fire hoses on African American children in Birmingham, Ala., according to Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer's "Voices of Freedom, An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s."> Read More
Inside Stories

Most Accidents Still Claim Minority Children

Accidental deaths among Chicago children reached a six-year low in 1997, but minorities continue to be most at risk, The Chicago Reporter has found.> Read More
Inside Stories

Big Donors, Talented Teens Crowd Gallery 37

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in public and private funds–"including money from a major tobacco conglomerate–"have helped Chicago's Gallery 37 arts education program thrive, even as city officials have cut their overall summer jobs effort from 12 weeks to six.> Read More

Deadly Neighborhoods

Community areas on the West and South sides registered the highest rates of accidental deaths among children between 1992 and 1997. In contrast, neighborhoods on the North and Northwest sides had the lowest rates–"including five that recorded no deaths.> Read More