The Chicago Reporter articles from February 2002

The Chicago Reporter archives from February 2002

Immigrants 'fearful' of government.(attack on America, 2001, aftermath)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Editor's Note: This month, we begin to use this page for interviews, profiles and shorter stories on people whose lives are touched by race and poverty issues. We welcome your feedback. Alysia Tate/editor@chicagoreporter.com Kevin...

State payments fund unlicensed care for poor children.
February 1, 2002... Amused that anyone would be interested, 82-year-old Willie Lee Johnson rattled off what her two young grandsons, 5-year-old T.J. and 3-year-old Dontre, do during the day while she cares for them in her large white wood-frame house in Englewood....

Evanston and Oak Park: Communities still wrestle with integration.
February 1, 2002... Evanston and Oak Park have reputations as progressive communities where integration works. "Diversity and integration have become a part of the community's fabric," said Paula Haynes, executive director of the Human Relations Commission of...

Emergency plan eludes city officials.(war on terrorism, 2002)
February 1, 2002... Although the federal government recommends that cities plan their responses to terrorism with inclusiveness and openness, Chicago's emergency preparedness plan is known only to a few in city government, The Chicago Reporter has found. ...

Federal dollars land in black districts.
February 1, 2002... Black congressional districts in the Chicago metropolitan area brought in an average of nearly $1 billion more in 1999 federal spending than their white counterparts, much of it in programs such as housing and food assistance, shows The Chicago...

Grant announcements.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Chicago Reporter has received $5,000 from the WPWR-TV Channel 50 Foundation, $5,000 from the Chicago Reader Inc. and $3,000 from the R.R. Donnelley Foundation toward its general operating expenses. The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation...

The Chicago Reporter: October 1972.(child care report)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... There are about 70,000 working mothers in Chicago with children under age 6, and more than half are black or Latino. While government agencies provide care for 22,000 city children, a study shows about 100,000 need care.

Protecting kids--and destroying families. (Keeping Current).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A child welfare law that pushes for parental rights to be quickly terminated so foster children can be adopted has become a new, more expedient way to tear black families apart, writes Northwestern University Law Professor Dorothy Roberts in...

George H. Ryan. (Keeping Current).(governor slammed over his economic policy)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Rather than sticking with his proposed $485 million budget cuts that "hit the hardest by far on programs that serve the poor," Gov. George H. Ryan should look at other options, argues John Bouman in December's Illinois Welfare News. Bouman,...

Sheldon Baskin. (Keeping Current).(Rienzi Plaza to keep on renting to low income tenants)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In November, the owners of Rienzi Plaza, an apartment building at 600 W. Diversey Parkway in Lakeview, renewed its Section 8 contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, agreeing to continue to set aside 147 of its 249...

The Chicago Housing Authority. (Keeping Current).(agency employees in need of training)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Chicago Housing Authority has yet to provide job training and counseling to as many residents as it promised in 1999 when it received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. The Residents' Journal reported in its...