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Meet Our New Voices

The Chicago Reporter — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:54:13 +0000

Presenting Hugo Balta, Nadine Naber, and Dr. Lance Williams offering weekly insights on issues and concerns in Chicago’s Latinx, Muslim, and African-American communities–only in The Chicago Reporter!

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Welcome Back!

The Chicago Reporter — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 06:51:52 +0000

We are happy and excited to announce that The Chicago Reporter is resuming publishing. We are returning with even more resolve and intent to deliver penetrating, memorable, and intelligent reporting—the kind that made you a fan of TCR in the beginning. Equally important is that we want to bring you news and perspectives that are […]

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For many with mental illness, it’s arrest, incarcerate, release, repeat

Susan Smith Richardson — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:00:36 +0000

In March, Anthony Hill, an Air Force veteran who served in Afghanistan, was shot and killed by a police officer in suburban Atlanta. Neighbors called police when an unarmed Hill was seen wandering around his apartment complex naked. He had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Hill’s death is one example of a recent deadly encounter […]

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In Chicago’s black community, a broken ladder to opportunity

Susan Smith Richardson — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:55:00 +0000

Schools and jobs are the hottest issues in the upcoming mayoral race. So it seemed a logical fit for The Chicago Reporter and Catalyst Chicago to collaborate on a joint publication about a February election that is actually shaping up to be about one big issue: opportunity. Access to quality public education is at the […]

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Inequity in park access lingers

Susan Smith Richardson — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:44:35 +0000

We don’t typically associate parks with social issues like race and class. But race and class matter when it comes to parks and recreation. Longtime Chicagoans will remember the campaign in the early 1960s to integrate Rainbow Beach in the then white neighborhood of South Shore—one of many examples of the color lines around Chicago’s […]

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