The Chicago Reporter articles from April 2002

The Chicago Reporter archives from April 2002

Foster parenting with a prayer and a salary. (New Voices).(Neighbor to Neighbor program pays Illinois foster parents a salary to help keep siblings)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Icy Garter is quick to point out her job is "one that takes a lot of prayer." Two years ago, when their only son left home, Garter and her husband, Ronald, decided to become part of a pilot program called Neighbor to Neighbor that pays Illinois...

Staffing shortage hits CHA families. (Missing Connections).(Chicago Housing Authority)
April 1, 2002... While the Chicago Housing Authority will move more than 2,000 families this year as part of its transformation plan, its program to connect residents with jobs, day care and other social services is significantly understaffed, The Chicago...

Residents lack role in revamped public housing.(Chicago Housing Authority)
April 1, 2002... At a March 9 luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Hotel downtown, the Chicago Housing Authority inaugurated 24 presidents of Local Advisory Councils, or LAGs, the official resident leadership groups elected every three years. The event's program...

Cook County 'point man' lacks rules, program.(Cook County, Illinois, Department of Public Health liaison Frank Barnes)
April 1, 2002... In early June 1999, Cook County Board President John H. Stager gave a speech about his fight against prostate cancer. Loop lunch-goers filled the James R. Thompson Center Plaza in downtown Chicago as Stroger helped unveil a U.s. prostate cancer...

Loury named Senior Editor. (Reporter News).(The Chicago Reporter promotes Alden K. Loury)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Reporter Alden K. Loury was promoted to Senior Editor on April 1. Loury joined the Reporter staff in 1999 after three years at The News-Gazette in Champaign-Urbana. Loury's work has received national attention; he is currently completing the...

Letter to the editor.
April 1, 2002... To the editor: In its March 2002 edition, The Chicago Reporter's "Keeping Current" section states that "the federal housing voucher program in Chicago has not succeeded in its goal to move poor families into middle-class neighborhoods."...

Book on 'N-word' raises ire at UIC. (Keeping Current).(Randall Kennedy's "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" criticized by University of Illinois at Chicago professors)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Exploring the history and meanings of the word "nigger" helps strip it of its racist power, Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy said in a recent lecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. But some scholars attending the lecture...

Illinois denied cash welfare benefits from 1996 to 1999 to 10,298 women convicted of drug offenses in Cook County. (Keeping Current).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Illinois denied cash welfare benefits from 1996 to 1999 to 10,298 women convicted of drug offenses in Cook County, leaving them little way to provide for their children after being released from prison, according to a February report. The...

Tootsie Roll. (Keeping Current).(Tootsie Roll Industries pressured to remove Native American image from packaging)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... An investment company is pressuring Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries to take a picture of a young boy wearing a headdress and holding a bow and arrow off the wrapper of its famous Tootsie Pop, reports the Feb. 18 Crain's Chicago Business....

Woodstock Institute. (Keeping Current).(reports credit unions fail to reach poor people)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Despite their mission to serve people of "modest means," credit unions in the six-county Chicago region serve fewer poor than middle- and upper-class households, according to a report by the Chicago-based Woodstock Institute, which analyzes how...