Perspectives
School choice is a scam in segregated neighborhoods
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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ agenda to further privatize education would leave even fewer good schools for low-income black and brown students.
Beyond 95th Street
For Riverdale, Red Line extension may be path to employment
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Cut off from major transit lines, deindustrialized Riverdale has among the city’s highest commute times, contributing to its high unemployment and poverty rates.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Is Illinois’ school funding discriminatory? Urban League pushes for court ruling
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Eight years later, a lawsuit arguing that the state’s system of funding public education violates minority students’ civil rights presses forward.
Behind the Data
Chicago’s economic recovery varies by race, new Census data shows
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From poverty to household earnings to Internet access, economic conditions for black and Hispanic residents lag behind those of whites according to newly published figures.
Empty Schools, Empty Promises
Interactive map: Closed schools still burden distressed Chicago neighborhoods
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Black neighborhoods with a legacy of disinvestment and segregation struggle to repurpose shuttered schools.
Education
Cutting benefits program for low-income families could cost CPS millions
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The cash-strapped school district eliminated a unit that helped eligible families sign up for public benefits. Now it could lose millions of dollars in state poverty grants, while thousands of children go without food and health insurance.
Employment and Labor
Reverse commute is a long haul on public transit
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As manufacturing and other jobs decline in the city, Chicagoans who depend on public transportation struggle to commute to the suburbs for work.
Race and Culture
In Kenwood, black picket fences
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Black middle-class families are drawn to South Side neighborhoods like Kenwood, but the city’s long history of segregation casts a shadow on their quality of life.
Education
Mix-up in poverty counts puts school budgets in jeopardy
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District officials are warning principals that their schools may lose poverty dollars due to an inexplicable undercount of low-income students this year.
Gallery
A community out in the cold
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Even during the winter, home for some Chicagoans is a viaduct or a park bench.