A Latino-led private-equity firm has agreed to open a supermarket in a Chicago area that's been labeled a food desert....
Chicago Public Radio | Natalie Moore | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago
South Side of Chicago residents are forced to spend billions of dollars each year outside of their communities. There are few restaurants or retail sh...
Wesley Epplin | Posted 08.27.2009 | Chicago
Chicago is even closer to beating out the likes of New York and San Francisco in officially resolving to help both the the planet and their citizens by encouraging more sustainable, healthier food options.
Ald. Howard Brookins | Posted 08.23.2009 | Chicago
Many of our neighborhoods are suffering in food deserts and increasing violence, yet we are slamming our doors to the one food retailer who is ready to invest in our poorest neighborhoods without asking for any financial incentives?
Mari Gallagher | Posted 06.12.2009 | Chicago
African Americans, on average, travel twice as far to reach a mainstream grocery store as they do a fast food restaurant and more are likely to suffer and die prematurely from diet-related diseases.
Chicago Sun-Times | Laura Washington | Posted 04.23.2009 | Chicago
It's called kicking the can down the road. In 2006, Mayor Richard M. Daley took a political hit that still reverberates today. The Service Employee In...
Chi-Town Daily News | LINDSEY REISER AND LEAH WESTFALL | Posted 04.05.2009 | Chicago
{P]arts of the South Side, including Bronzeville, have been labeled "food deserts" because of the lack of supermarkets and other food sources. But t...
Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago
We consider a mainstream grocery store a place where you can support a healthy diet on a regular basis. A fringe food location is the opposite; it is not inherently bad, but when it's the primary food source, local diets and public health suffer.
Alden Loury | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago
Grocery stores are pretty sparse in Auburn Gresham, where I live, and many other predominantly black communities on Chicago's South Side.
The Chicago Reporter | Kelly Virella | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago
On a one-acre vegetable farm in Chicago, a bearded, 6 foot, 3 inch-tall black man squats before a bed of green, leafy radishes. Unlike most produce, t...
Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago
We spend billions of dollars in this country treating diseases that could be moderated or prevented by better and healthier food access and choice. A great number of these treatments are for the uninsured and take place in the emergency room. This is not cost-effective.
Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago
Can the market do well by doing some good? Why not? In Chicago alone we have identified a half-million-plus people who live in a Food Desert with no or distant grocery stores but nearby access to fast food.
Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago