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January, 2012
Did you miss Editor and Interim Publisher Kimbriell Kelly on the Barber Shop Show? Listen online.
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January, 2012
Did you miss Editor and Interim Publisher Kimbriell Kelly on the Barber Shop Show? Listen online. Before the housing bubble burst, before Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan sued Countrywide for discriminatory lending practices and before the word foreclosure became as common as the word mortgage, if you were a black family in Chicago looking to buy your first home and the rates seemed...
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January, 2012
Mary Smith vivía en una tranquila cuadra de Woodlawn en 1978 cuando recibió la noticia de que había obtenido un departamento en uno de los primeros edificios de subsidio federal. En ese entonces, el edificio de ladrillo dorado con patio del 6134 Sur de la Avenida Kimbark era un brillante lugar en el vecindario, el cual luchaba por recuperar su posición tras una década de disturbios seguida del...
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January, 2012
One fall morning, Leon Finney Jr. speeds from block to block pointing out each of the townhomes and high-rise apartment buildings he’s built in the Woodlawn community in the past four decades. With his personal cameraman in tow, the community organizer turned real estate developer and pastor pulls his Lexus sedan to the side of the road every few blocks and hastily jumps out with his keys still...
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January, 2012
When Faith McGhee moved to Grove Parc in 1991, the federally subsidized building provided her with stability when she needed it the most. “It really helped me to put my life back together when I was between jobs because I wasn’t able to afford market rent,” said McGhee, who was separated from her husband and had three children. “It’s a place rich in resources.”But, by late 2007, the condition at...
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January, 2012
Mary Smith was living on a quiet Woodlawn block in 1978 when she got the news that she landed an apartment in one of the neighborhood’s first federally subsidized buildings. At the time, the golden-brick courtyard building at 6134 S. Kimbark Ave. was a bright spot in the neighborhood, which was struggling to regain its footing a decade after a spate of rioting that followed Martin Luther King Jr...
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January, 2012
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January, 2012
The news: Chicago Public Schools identified 10,660 homeless students from the start of the school year through Sept. 30, an increase of about 1,500 from last school year.Behind the news:Of the homeless students—more than 98 percent of whom were children of color—1,778 were “unaccompanied youth,” a seven-fold increase from last year.Julie Dworkin, director of policy for the Chicago Coalition for...
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January, 2012
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