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Fast-Track Deportations

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

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Missing Targets

September, 2004 Among city and suburban children, asthma rates are
through the roof, especially in black neighborhoods.
But officials aren't doing much to help families cope
with the disease.

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Risk-Ridden Homes

High-risk lead ZIP codes in the six-county Chicago metropolitan area mostly include suburbs that have significant Latino and black populations and low median household incomes. This trend holds true for Chicago; though the whole city is considered high-risk, its most-affected areas are black and Latino neighborhoods on the West and South sides.

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Waiting to Inhale

Mick DumkeAmong city and suburban children, asthma rates are
through the roof, especially in black neighborhoods.
But officials aren't doing much to help families cope
with the disease.
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Going Mobile

When it comes to asthma, a van picks up where the government leaves off.> Read More

Armed for Attacks

With a little self-education and a lot of time and effort, proactive parents can minimize asthma's effects.> Read More

Friday Nights

Emergency-room visits alone aren't enough to ease asthma, but they're the only option for many families.> Read More

Lung Time Coming

Children go to the hospital for asthma more than twice as often in Cook County than anywhere else in the six-county metropolitan area. In general, the higher the African American population, the more kids are likely to be hospitalized.> Read More

What is Asthma?

As common, and potentially dangerous, as asthma may be, surprisingly little is known about it---including its cause and the cure. Doctors, then, have turned to a medical version of the old sports adage that says, if you can't stop the guy you're trying to beat, try to contain him.> Read More
Inside Stories

Left Out

Chicago's still struggling to fix the homes of lead-poisoned children, while other communities get the job done.> Read More

Abatement vs. Mitigation

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Put Off

Middle-class children often don't get tested for lead, despite the damage it can do.> Read More

Parent Trap

Poor families know lead hurts their children. They just don't get the help---or the response from landlords---they need to do much about it.> Read More

Breathing Trouble

Asthma appears to be slamming mostly black communities in western and southern parts of the city and suburbs. In many of these areas, one of every 100 children, on average, ends up hospitalized for the disease each year.

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