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Who Owns the Mirror?
The dismantling of BET+ and what It means when Black America loses control of its own story Last Friday, Paramount confirmed what many of us feared was coming: BET+, the standalone streaming service that was supposed to be a digital home for Black storytelling, is being shuttered. Its content will be absorbed into Paramount+ beginning…
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Chicago Air Pollution Map Shows Neighborhood Air Quality Across the City
The largest neighborhood air monitoring network in the U.S. allows residents to track Chicago air pollution in real time. March 14: A statement about how air quality data can be used to identify pollution hotspots and guide federal enforcement was mistakenly attributed to Grace Adams of the Chicago Department of Public Health. The paragraph has…
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Advocates Push to Expand Earned Sentence Credits
Expanding earned credits could improve rehabilitation, reduce overcrowding, and support correctional staff wellness. When Ray Guerica received his “out date,” an estimated date when his prison sentence would end, he was in his mid-twenties and had already spent nearly five years in jail waiting to learn the final outcome of his case. He calculated the…
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Employment and labor
IDOC’s controversial health care provider is out. Will people in IDOC finally receive the care they need?
After decades of protest from activists, change is coming to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) health care system. A June 23rd memo announced that the IDOC is abandoning contract negotiations with Wexford Health Sources, who had won a ten year, $4 billion dollar contract renewal at the end of 2023. Now as IDOC initiates…
Economic Development
Tip and Wage Theft Still Prevalent in Chicago Restaurant Industry Despite New Ordinance
Chicago’s City Council passed a new ordinance intended to guarantee living wages for service industry workers, but experts believe that more strict legislation is needed to safeguard against employer fraud. The Chicago One Fair Wage ordinance, passed in October, will phase out Chicago’s subminimum wages for tipped workers over a five-year period, impacting restaurants in…