Why Is It Tough To Stabilize Chicago's Neighborhoods?
Banks filed foreclosure on fewer homes in Chicago last year, so it's easy to think the problem is fading. But five years into the crisis, a lot of nei...
Banks filed foreclosure on fewer homes in Chicago last year, so it's easy to think the problem is fading. But five years into the crisis, a lot of nei...
Chicago News Cooperative | Posted 02.27.2012
One said goodbye, embracing his anxious parents. One left without a word, indignant and angry. After traveling thousands of miles by bus, train and...
AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 04.17.2012
CHICAGO — The MacArthur Foundation on Thursday named 15 organizations in six countries as winners of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effect...
Sid Mohn | Posted 02.08.2012
Between a rock and a hard place is where you can work full time and still be in poverty (like 100,000 Illinoisans). It's where you can look for a job for 37 weeks -- almost 10 months -- and still not find one (that's the average here).
Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 01.15.2012
In 2010, one out of every 15 Americans were living in extreme poverty, defined as those with incomes of 50 percent or less of the poverty level. Now, new poverty measures adopted by the Census Bureau indicate the numbers may be worse.
Sid Mohn | Posted 12.17.2011
Because of the recession, the number of people living in poverty has never been higher. It's easy to be overwhelmed by these statistics. But today -- the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty -- gives me hope.
Posted 11.21.2011
New data released Wednesday by the Greater Chicago Food Depository shows that just over 20 percent of Chicagoans face "food insecurity." The data [...
Posted 10.31.2011
Four teens were wounded Tuesday night in a drive-by shooting in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood--where Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. H...
AP | By KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 07.18.2011
CHICAGO -- As Rahm Emanuel begins his term as Chicago mayor, one daunting challenge he inherits from his predecessor has barely been mentioned: how to...
AP | KAREN HAWKINS | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — For decades, Chicago's infamous Cabrini-Green high-rises – with their fenced-in balconies and horrific high-profile crimes &ndas...
Chicago Sun-Times | Accepted Admissions Almanac | Posted 05.25.2011
Providence St. Mel on Chicago's West Side and Hinsdale Central High in the southwest suburbs represent the poorest and wealthiest of 12 schools profil...
Christine Bork | Posted 05.25.2011
On both a national and local level, women reached historic milestones in public office -- but of all the candidates currently running for mayor of Chicago, only one is a woman.
Posted 05.25.2011
No matter what multi-billion-dollar corporations might be responsible for the current recession, it is the poorest and most disadvantaged among us tha...
Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston | Posted 05.25.2011
When children's teeth ache from cavities, when their vision is too blurred to see the chalkboard, it is no wonder that their school performance is poor and their behavior is aggressive.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011
Like a strong, steady heartbeat, the Chicago Community Trust quietly tapped out the city's economic pulse Monday in the form of its very first monthly "Vital Signs" report.
Chi-Town Daily News | Megan Cottrell | Posted 05.25.2011
Public housing residents must have jobs to keep their homes under a controversial new policy adopted today by Chicago Housing Authority commissioners....
Chi-Town Daily News | Ian Fullerton | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago's emergency food pantries and soup kitchens are gearing up for a busy winter, thanks to spiraling unemployment and food costs. With the unemp...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011
The way to ensure no children get "left behind" isn't more cash to schools, it's more resources to people.
Christopher Devine | Posted 05.25.2011
This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from my book Of No Fixed Address: A Collection of Voices from the Streets of Chicago
Christopher Devine | Posted 05.25.2011
A man on the street once said to me, "I wish I could just go somewhere and be with some people. You know, just socialize with some people. Not a shelter. Just a place to hang out, you know? But I'm homeless, man. I ain't got nowhere to go." Brunches like these seem to fill that void.
WBEZ | By: Ashley Gross | Posted 04.09.2012