
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.
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.
Gun violence survivors and grieving families are helping Cecilia Mannion, profiled in WBEZ’s Motive podcast, as her health struggles mount.
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.
The new report spells out the disparities Black residents face in the city when it comes to health, wealth, education and more.
Asylum-seekers dwell in 10 temporary shelters operated by the city of Chicago. Half the shelters are in higher-income neighborhoods.
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.
As asylum-seekers arrive in Chicago nearly daily, two local organizations are designing a recycled bike pipeline to help provide reliable transportation.
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.
Aleksei Eremenko is among those struggling to find legal aid as his family searches for stability in a new country.
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.
The city said the students would be better off, their new schools transformed and the closed buildings would be reborn as community assets.