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In Chicago, COVID-19 takes a toll in Black and Latinx neighborhoods

by Natalie Moore
Sep 21, 2020
Family members of one Black 32-year-old woman who died say they are concerned about the lack of communication from the hospital before her death.
Health care workers transfer a patient to a different unit at a hospital. The pandemic is disproportionately affecting Black and Latinx patients.
Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images
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Reimagining the Economy

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on rebuilding trust between the city and its people

by David Brancaccio , Meredith Garretson and Daniel Shin
Aug 17, 2020
Lightfoot wants to "unwind" Chicago's "addiction to fines and fees" so as to not drive people into bankruptcy and out of the economy.
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Chicago developers are making use of opportunity zone investment

by Natalie Moore
Jan 23, 2020
But economic impact is hard to track without oversight at state or federal level. Critics say that's not good enough.
The Chicago Housing Authority is using opportunity zone money from PNC Bank for a commercial building in North Lawndale on the city's West Side.
Development design courtesy of Chicago Housing Authority
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How one Chicago call center works to prevent homelessness

by David Wagner
Jan 14, 2020
Workers connect qualifying callers with one-time emergency aid.
A Chicago call center worker asks callers how they ended up on the verge of homelessness.
David Wagner/KPCC
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Manufacturing needs workers. Chicago has plenty. Where’s the disconnect?

by Esther Yoon-Ji Kang
Dec 11, 2019
A high rate of unemployment persists in some parts of Chicago, despite a worker shortage in manufacturing.
Production supervisor David Casarrubias monitors a fabric-cutting machine at Freedman Seating company in Chicago.
Esther Yoon-Ji Kang
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Chicago's Lincoln Yards development under scrutiny

by Natalie Moore
Apr 3, 2019
Who will the multibillion-dollar project benefit?
A rendering of Lincoln Yards.
Courtesy of Sterling Bay
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Let's do the numbers: St. Patrick's Day edition

by Danielle Chiriguayo
Mar 15, 2018
From closed bars to Pedialyte, here are a few things you might not have known about the holiday.
A water taxi navigates the Chicago River shortly after it was dyed green in celebration of St. Patrick's Day on March 11, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Parking tickets are bankrupting Chicago residents

by Tracey Samuelson
Mar 6, 2018
Why Chicago has more parking ticket debt than other major American cities, and who the system targets.
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African-Americans are leaving Chicago for a better quality of life in neighboring Indiana

by Natalie Moore
Jan 29, 2018
Issues with schools, a stagnant job market and affordability have driven 12,000 blacks from Cook County in the last year.
William Godwin in his office in the Miller Beach section of Gary, Indiana.
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What happens when sexual harassment becomes ingrained in work culture?

by Marketplace Staff
Dec 20, 2017
While some industries may be going through a watershed moment of zero tolerance for sexual harassment, other workplaces may be much slower to change. A recent investigation by the New York Times into two Chicago-based Ford Motor Co. factories shows an entrenched culture of harassment and sexual assault. Senior correspondent Susan Chira, along with her colleague […]
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