Quick Takes Archives - The Chicago Reporter http://www.chicagoreporter.com/category/perspectives/quick-takes/ Investigating race and poverty since 1972 Fri, 06 Jan 2023 05:37:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/logo-1-reverse-1-150x150-1.png Quick Takes Archives - The Chicago Reporter http://www.chicagoreporter.com/category/perspectives/quick-takes/ 32 32 163009088 TCR Weekly Briefs: COVID Concerns, Racist Graffiti, First Black-owned McDonald’s Reopens https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tcr-weekly-briefs-covid-concerns-racist-graffiti-first-black-owned-mcdonalds-reopens/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tcr-weekly-briefs-covid-concerns-racist-graffiti-first-black-owned-mcdonalds-reopens/#respond Fri, 06 Jan 2023 05:34:23 +0000 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=7846512 Concerns Over Public Schools Not Tracking COVID Boosters As the country deals with a new COVID omicron subvariant known as XBB.1.5, there’s growing concern that Chicago Public Schools does not track which students or staff have gotten the updated omicron booster. Chicago Public Schools continues to track the initial primary series but not the boosters. Data […]

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]]> https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tcr-weekly-briefs-covid-concerns-racist-graffiti-first-black-owned-mcdonalds-reopens/feed/ 0 7846512 TCR Weekly Briefs: SAFE-T Act, DACA, Dr. Timuel Black https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tcr-weekly-briefs-safe-t-act-daca-dr-timuel-black/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tcr-weekly-briefs-safe-t-act-daca-dr-timuel-black/#respond Fri, 09 Dec 2022 08:44:40 +0000 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=7846206 Pritzker Signs SAFE-T Act Amendments Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday signed into law revisions to the controversial criminal justice package known as the SAFE-T Act. “I’m pleased that the General Assembly has passed clarifications that uphold the principle we fought to protect,” Pritzker said in a statement about the signing. “Advocates and lawmakers came together […]

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]]> https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tcr-weekly-briefs-safe-t-act-daca-dr-timuel-black/feed/ 0 7846206 Is this what a legal Muslim ban looks like? https://www.chicagoreporter.com/is-this-what-a-legal-muslim-ban-looks-like/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/is-this-what-a-legal-muslim-ban-looks-like/#respond Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:33:31 +0000 http://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=1493588 The Trump administration’s latest executive order restricting immigration may be much harder to challenge as unconstitutional in court, an immigration lawyer argues.

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]]> https://www.chicagoreporter.com/is-this-what-a-legal-muslim-ban-looks-like/feed/ 0 1493588 Don’t use the good vs. bad immigrant narrative to save DACA https://www.chicagoreporter.com/dont-use-the-good-vs-bad-immigrant-narrative-to-save-daca/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/dont-use-the-good-vs-bad-immigrant-narrative-to-save-daca/#comments Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:43:26 +0000 http://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=1345180 Fighting only for the 'deserving' immigrants enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is divisive and dehumanizing.

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