The Chicago Reporter articles from January 2006

The Chicago Reporter archives from January 2006

Editor's note.
January 1, 2006... For leaders of color, it appears to be a thin line between selling out and succeeding. Somehow, Lillian Calhoun, our founding co-editor, kept that line clear during her years as both a journalist and an activist. Calhoun, who died in...

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2006... Thank you for running your recent cover story, "Retail Runaround" [November/ December 2005]. It is a very accurate account of what it is like for middle-class minorities living on the South Side. My husband and I moved from the North Side six...

Cooperative care: a Chicago doctor has come up with a possible cure for what ails America's health care system.(New Voices)
January 1, 2006... Azher Quader, a 62-year-old urologist from India, spends one Sunday a month volunteering as a medical consultant at the Muslim Community Center in the Northwest Side's Albany Park neighborhood. He estimates that 90 percent of the people he sees...

Building power: one of the city's most powerful Latino organizations has figured out how to get a seat at the table.
January 1, 2006... At the center of the elegant Hyatt Regency Hotel ballroom, past the strolling mariachis, past the grade school kids turning karate kicks, past the diners who had paid $300-a-plate admission, stood a raised VIP table that pulled together some of...

Getting in: UNO is tapping a new source for Latino leaders of the future.(United Neighborhood Organization's Metropolitan Leadership Institute)
January 1, 2006... In the fall of 2003, Mayor Richard M. Daley spent an hour in a closed-room session fielding the questions of some 20 young Latino professionals--nearly all previous strangers. In varying accounts of the night, the mayor was either so taken...

A few good government jobs.(United Neighborhood Organization)
January 1, 2006... Many people connected with the United Neighborhood Organization, known as UNO, have landed top-level government appointments and jobs-some even while they're still working with UNO. Through them, this community organizing group has built a...

Cashed out: school officials across Illinois want the state to narrow the gap in education funding. But no one knows exactly how to do it.
January 1, 2006... Though few in number and far from wealthy, residents in small, predominantly black, south suburban Phoenix have a long and storied history of fighting to make sure their children get a quality education. And, while the central issue has changed...

Marching on: if Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he'd find many black Chicagoans living in conditions similar to those he witnessed here 40 years ago.(Keeping Current)
January 1, 2006... For much of 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. worked closely with members of Chicago Council of Community Organizations in the Chicago Freedom Movement. His first northern campaign focused on ending slum living conditions and opening housing markets...

Friends of the reporter.
January 1, 2006... Fiscal Year 2005 The following foundations and businesses granted $579,250 toward the Reporter's operations from July l, 2004, to June 30, 2005. Their gifts helped preserve and strengthen the magazine's investigative coverage of issues...

January 29, 2006.(Parting Shot)
January 1, 2006... Hundreds of spectators gathered at Cermak Road and Wentworth Avenue to celebrate the Chinese New Year, including those who crafted homemade dragons. Photo by Jason Reblando. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]