Education
Alternative schools bear the brunt of student deaths in Chicago
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The district’s most vulnerable students often end up in alternative schools that are especially under-resourced to cope with the trauma of gun violence.
Empty Schools, Empty Promises
Private schools, poised to grow in Illinois, move into closed Chicago public schools
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The recent sales of four vacant schools to private school operators could stir more competition for the public school system as school choice initiatives gain support in the state and nation.
Empty Schools, Empty Promises
For one black family, a cycle of school closings
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Poor students continue to bear the brunt of Chicago’s newly approved plans to shut down more public schools.
Empty Schools, Empty Promises
When Chicago closed her kids’ school, she decided to fight back
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As Chicago Public Schools prepares to shut down more schools, it faces continued resistance from people like Irene Robinson, whose community was fractured by 2013’s mass closures.
Chicago Freedom Movement 50
The Chicago Freedom Movement’s quest for economic justice
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign in the north sought to bridge the civil rights movement with labor organizing.
Empty Schools, Empty Promises
Thousands of black students leave Chicago for other segregated districts
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Many families fleeing the poorest pockets of the city are ending up in cash-strapped school systems in the suburbs and northwest Indiana.
Empty Schools, Empty Promises
Closed schools could remain vacant without public subsidy
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Developers buying shuttered Chicago schools face stiff competition for tax credits that make their repurposing plans viable.
Housing
After years of scamming black homeowners, Mark Diamond finally charged
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The businessman who feds say defrauded elderly women, mostly on the West Side, out of millions in a reverse mortgage scheme will remain jailed awaiting trial.
Housing
Elderly black homeowners await restitution for reverse mortgage scam
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Despite a court order for victims to be compensated, many have yet to see the money they lost to Chicago businessman Mark Diamond’s scheme.
Empty Schools, Empty Promises
As closed schools go up for sale, transparency issues persist
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At Chicago Public Schools’ first meeting with potential buyers, up-to-date information on the buildings remains hard to come by.