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January, 2012
On a breezy Friday, Elda Burke and a co-worker waited at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for a plane to arrive from India. Onboard, there was an elderly couple who would need her help getting through customs, baggage claim and to the curb to hail a cab.Burke is one of the people who push wheelchairs from gate to gate for people who are disabled or elderly.It’s a job where workers rely on...
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January, 2012
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January, 2012
The news: Occupy Chicago, rallying behind its slogan, “We are the 99 percent,” entered a fourth month of protesting.Behind the news:Nationwide, white households are three times more likely to earn more than $200,000—the highest income bracket tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau—than black households. In Chicago, the disparity is even greater with white households being eight times more likely to be...
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October, 2011
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November, 2011
The news: As unemployment rises, politicians from all levels of government are trying to create incentives for small-business owners.Behind the news: Chicago’s effort to help small businesses improve may be helping established businesses in prosperous areas, rather than struggling entrepreneurs.
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September, 2011
The news:In July, Troy Bonaparte, 46, the first person convicted in Cook County under tougher laws aimed against human trafficking, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for forcing three women into prostitution.Behind the news:Last year, more than 11,800 calls were made to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline maintained by the Polaris Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit....
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June, 2011
Dando la mano a oficiales de Illinois Lottery, Bob Dale se sentía como un ganador. No, él no había ganado el premio mayor ni una de las tarjetas para raspar. Pero su negocio, R.J. Dale Advertising acababa de sellar un contrato de $100 millones con Illinois Department of Revenue, uno de los contratos más grandes concedido a un negocio con dueño negro en Illinois. Pero al repasar su gran...
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June, 2011
Perhaps if more minorities got state contracts, there would be fewer minorities out of work.That’s a stretch, but perhaps it’s partly true. In The Chicago Reporter’s current cover story “Empty jackpot,” reporter Megan Cottrell tallied how many businesses benefitted from a state program that grants contracts to businesses owned by minorities, women and people with a disability.The state pats...
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June, 2011
In the competitive business world, Joyce Johnson, president and CEO of Anchor Staffing, has been on the brink of business deals many times. Yet, she has often missed out on the opportunities for being an African-American woman, she says.“I don’t think people recognize minority businesses and take us seriously sometimes. I don’t think they think we are as qualified,” Johnson says.But as a six-year...
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