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By laying off 170 workers, Accretive Health may be violating its $6-million tax increment financing agreement. But lack of transparency makes it difficult to tell.
New data from the City of Chicago Independent Police Review Authority show African Americans show people of color are much more likely to be shot by a Chicago police officer than white counterparts.
The CHA’s bank account swells, yet housing remains scarce.
Illinois joins states across the nation in raising the age on criminal prosecution to 18.
The city, state and nation must confront a range of issues in the New Year: foreclosures, mandatory minimum, immigration reform, privatization of public assets. What will be the outcomes?
Thousands of felony cases involving a weapons violation are being dismissed in Cook County. Is the public pressure to crack down on gun violence inadvertently driving up these numbers?
Some Chicago labor activists pushing for a minimum-wage hike are appealing to a new audience for support: voters.
It was once deemed the most dangerous city in America, but that’s not the case anymore. It’s looking like 2013 will have the lowest absolute number of murders on the books in 20 years.
More than two years after the city amended the vacant property ordinance, thousands of the vacant buildings are still flying under the city’s radar, and few owners are being held accountable for their upkeep.
So far this year, 379 people have been murdered in Chicago. And thousands more have survived gunshot wounds. “While those numbers are lower than 2012,” the Huffington Post writes, “the threat of gang violence remains a fact of life for those who live in the city.”
Is beefed up policing of gangs the cure to violence in Chicago? Or is the HuffPo’s notion that street gangs are at the root of Chicago’s violence problems too simplistic a diagnosis? The Chicago Reporter’s Angela Caputo will jump into an on-line debate exploring those questions this morning at 11 a.m. Central on a Google Hangout.