After undergoing surgery a few years ago, Jennifer Leach received a call claiming she overpaid her hospital bill and was eligible to receive compensation. It…
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Rehabilitation Programs Instead of Imprisonment for Juveniles
It costs Illinois $111,000 a year to imprison one young person yet, there is no training and rehabilitation programs to keep them from returning to…
Flip the Script on Youth Violence and Justice
Some children as young as kindergarten are being pushed out of schools, leading them to crime, drugs, violence all while not getting the education they…
Substance Abuse Drives Incarceration of Youth
Substance abuse among young people has become one of the main reasons for incarceration, advocates said Thursday. “Cook County has committed over 70 percent of…
Violence Figures Big in Reporting from the Summer 2012 I-Team
Twenty-two students in the Columbia Links high school journalism and news literacy program at Columbia College Chicago wrote about their fears and hopes for their city to…
Youth Violence is a Public Health Issue, Activists Say
Those concerned with the growing incidents of youth violence in Chicago should pay close attention to what University of Illinois at Chicago’s Associate Professor Von…
More TIF Reform Needed, Community Activists Say
Curtis Black from Newstips–a Community Media Workshop blog–has a great article about the fundamental elements missing from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed reform of Chicago’s tax…
Bronzeville Residents Want TIF Reform
Curtis Black from the Community Media Workshop’s Newstips blog covered Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s TIF Task Force public forum in Bronzeville last week. Here is an excerpt…