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Chicago Community Trust Doles Out $500,000 For Local Journalism

Huffington Post | Posted 11.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Community Trust, Chicago Journalism, Community Media Workshop, Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago Youth Voices Network, Gapers Block, Local Journalism, Knight Foundation, Terry Mazany, Windy Citizen, Beachwood Reporter, Better Government Association, Columbia College, Community News Matters, Chicago News

Local journalism in Chicago is getting a big shot in the arm. The Chicago Community Trust on Thursday announced 12 winners of grants totaling $500,00...

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Chicago News Blogs Have Put Enough Skin in the Game

Sally Duros | Posted 07.09.2009 | Chicago

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Sally Duros

For nearly two decades, newspapers have been challenged to evolve into knowledge-based organizations capable of adapting to the innovations of the Web. Instead of progressing, they've been traded as chits in a greedy money-grab game by short-sighted media conglomerates.

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Chicago's Latino Landscape 2008: A Statistical Portrait of Chi-Town Hispanics

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 04.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Hispanic Age Ranges, Hispanic Female Headed Households, Latino Population in Chicago, Hispanic Voting, Latino Joblessness, Mexicans in Chicago, Hispanic Health, Hispanic Infant Mortality, Latino Infant Mortality, Latino Health, Chicago Community Trust, Latino Age Ranges, Latinos in Chicago, Hispanic Demographics, Hispanics in Chicago, Hispanic Gays Lesbians Bisexuals, Hispanic Population Chicago, Latino Homelessness, Latino Gays Lesbians Bisexuals, Latino Female Headed Households, Hispanic Joblessness, Latino Voting, Puerto Ricans in Chicago, Immigration, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

There were 415 Latino inmates in Illinois State prisons and local jails per 100,000 residents in 2005, compared to 223 whites and 2,020 blacks.

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Chicago 'Vital Signs' Report Tells Where Life Support is Needed

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 01.17.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Chicago Poverty, Chicago Community Trust, Chicago Housing Sales, Chicago Home Foreclosures, Terry Mazany, Vital Signs, Foreclosures, Poverty, Economic Crisis, Vital Signs Chicago, Housing Crisis, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

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.

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