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Inside Chicago’s growing investment in violence intervention
Community Peacekeepers say reducing shootings means confronting poverty, trauma and instability in the neighborhoods most impacted by violence. Fifteen miles south of the Magnificent Mile, Roseland’s stretch of Michigan Avenue resembles a ghost town. Shuttered businesses line the sidewalks, their windows boarded up, weeds springing from cracks in the pavement at their doorsteps. Their faded…
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Chicago through photos: Uptown and Argyle
As part of TCR’s Chicago Through Photos series, we’re hosting a photography contest on May 14. We invite participants to explore the theme “justice” through their camera lens. Submit a photo entry by May 10 or attend as a guest! Chicago’s Argyle Street sits in Uptown, a North Side neighborhood shaped by successive waves of immigration, economic change, and activism. Over…
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Chicago through photos: Humboldt Park and Puerto Rican history
As part of TCR’s Chicago Through Photos series, we’re hosting a photography contest on May 14. We invite participants to explore the theme “justice” through their camera lens. Submit a photo entry or attend as a guest! Humboldt Park, a bustling cultural hub on Chicago’s West Side, has been the heart of the city’s Puerto…
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Employment and labor
IDOC’s controversial health care provider is out. Will people in IDOC finally receive the care they need?
After decades of protest from activists, change is coming to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) health care system. A June 23rd memo announced that the IDOC is abandoning contract negotiations with Wexford Health Sources, who had won a ten year, $4 billion dollar contract renewal at the end of 2023. Now as IDOC initiates…
Economic Development
Six years in, has Illinois’ cannabis equity law delivered?
Illinois legalized cannabis with equity at its core in 2020. Six years later, the results are mixed. After nearly 90 years of prohibition, Illinois became the first state to legalize the sale of cannabis through a state legislature in 2019. Touted by the governor’s office as the “most equity-centric” cannabis law in the nation, the…