Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tag/racial-disparity/)
The planned closing of Mercy Hospital underscores the dramatic loss of maternity services in Chicago over the past year — reflecting the failure of local government agencies to adequately fund critical services in vulnerable communities, advocates say.
School buildings notoriously shuttered by Chicago Public Schools in 2013 could now be used to facilitate classroom social distancing, especially in communities hardest hit by COVID-19.
COVID-19 has again demonstrated the health inequities that exist between African Americans and whites.
In Illinois and beyond, specific action is needed to better understand how the pandemic is impacting Asian American communities especially at risk of infection.
The subjugation of black people, enforced by violence and embedded in capitalism, has been the through line of American history.
Here’s what we’re reading as Illinois and Chicago prepare to advance into the next phase of reopening businesses and public spaces.
Neighborhood characteristics like pollution from busy roads, widespread public transit use and lack of community-based health care are putting certain communities at greater risk from COVID-19.
The focus on individual behaviors, lack of health services and inadequate data reveal a public health infrastructure designed to protect wealthier and whiter communities while leaving the most vulnerable behind.
The costs of containing the pandemic continue to escalate especially among vulnerable populations and communities of color across the city and state.
Stark disparities in the impact of the crisis emerge as the state marks one month of staying at home and officials are pressed to do more to protect the most vulnerable, including essential workers and the incarcerated.