She spent years helping victims of Chicago’s gun violence. Now she’s leaning on them.
Gun violence survivors and grieving families are helping Cecilia Mannion, profiled in WBEZ’s Motive podcast, as her health struggles mount.
Race, Class & Communities
The Race, Class & Communities Desk seeks to provide enterprise reporting on broad themes and trends related to race and income in the Chicago metropolitan area and to provide beat coverage of topical issues including housing, immigration, work/opportunity and demographics.
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Vendors forced out of Little Village Discount Mall have mixed success beyond it
Several in the group of about 40 vendors have tried different means of remaining in business after their half of the mall shuttered, but business isn’t the same and they feel isolated without one another.
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‘State of Black Chicago’ highlights outcome disparities between Black and white Chicagoans
The new report spells out the disparities Black residents face in the city when it comes to health, wealth, education and more.
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From Woodlawn to West Ridge, migrants live in temporary shelters across Chicago
Asylum-seekers dwell in 10 temporary shelters operated by the city of Chicago. Half the shelters are in higher-income neighborhoods.
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More than 500 anti-violence workers were out Memorial Day weekend
Over 50 were shot this past holiday weekend in Chicago according to police. That’s about the city’s average for Memorial Day weekend over the last ten years.
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For migrants, used bikes offer a path forward in an unfamiliar city
As asylum-seekers arrive in Chicago nearly daily, two local organizations are designing a recycled bike pipeline to help provide reliable transportation.
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Every state offers victim compensation. For the Longs and other Black families, it often isn’t fair.
Black victims and their families are disproportionately denied compensation for in many states, often for subjective reasons that experts say are rooted in racial biases.
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After fleeing Russia over war in Ukraine, a Chicago family joins asylum-seekers in legal limbo
Aleksei Eremenko is among those struggling to find legal aid as his family searches for stability in a new country.
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Ten years after Chicago closed 50 public schools, more than half remain shuttered and unused
The mayor promised the 46 buildings left would get a second life. The Sun-Times and WBEZ visited every building and community to see what happened.
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Chicago closed 50 public schools 10 years ago. Did the city keep its promises?
The city said the students would be better off, their new schools transformed and the closed buildings would be reborn as community assets.
