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September, 2007
Sandra Otaka was widely praised for her legal and community work long before she became a Cook County judge. But "her first priority is that she's Jeffrey's mom, and that's what's so powerful about her," says Linda Lu, president of the Asian American Bar Association of Greater Chicago. (Photo by Christopher B. Santiago)
Sandra Otaka wasn't going to leave anything to chance. It was March 19, the...
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September, 2007
Although Cook County's 9th Judicial Subcircuit has a sizable Asian population, its diversity meant Sandra Otaka had to reach other voters to win one of its two open judgeships.
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September, 2007
The officials who work most closely with foster children disagree on the accuracy of the data used in this investigation. But none tracks, or can provide, comparable numbers.
Beginning in July, The Chicago Reporter and CATALYST: Voices of Chicago School Reform requested information from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services on how well foster children perform in school and...
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September, 2007
Like many Cook County voters selecting judges on an election ballot, Vicente J. Hernandez picks them "at random."
"I just go down the line, and if there is a name that appeals to me, that is the one I punch," he said.
The names of Latinos, Italians, Polish, Greeks and Irish are most appealing to him because those are the ethnicities of his former classmates or his neighbors. "I pick...
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September, 2007
Average lottery players in mostly-black ZIP code areas spent more money and a higher percentage of their income on the lottery in fiscal year 2002 than did average lottery players in mostly-Latino and mostly-white ZIP code areas.
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September, 2007
The state's top 20 ZIP code areas in fiscal year 2002 lottery sales were from Chicago. Among them, six were at least 70 percent black, four were at least 60 percent Latino and three were at least 70 percent white.
Sources: Illinois Lottery, U.S. Census Bureau; analyzed by The Chicago Reporter.
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September, 2007
It's just minutes before the televised noon lottery drawing, and hurried, last-minute players are lining up inside 115th St. Food...
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September, 2007
Illinois schools received slightly more than a third of the $1.59 billion the state received in lottery proceeds in the 2002 fiscal year.
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September, 2007
While the Illinois Lottery generated more than $500 million for public education in fiscal year 2000, it accounted for less than 10 percent of the state's spending for primary and secondary education. The lottery's share has steadily decreased since 1985, when the Illinois General Assembly mandated that lottery proceeds go directly toward public education.
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