The Chicago Reporter articles from June 2004

The Chicago Reporter archives from June 2004

Letters to the editor/reporter news.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2004... The March cover story, "The Go-Between," which focused on Jose L. Oliva of the Chicago Interfaith Workers' Rights Center, explained well the current social and political obstacles faced by immigrant workers in Chicago. However, in focusing...

Reporter news.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... In March, the National Association of Black Journalists' Chicago Chapter gave its Award for Excellence in Print News to Chicago Reporter staff members Mick Dumke, for his reporting on the reparations movement in "Power to His People" (December...

Keeping the beat: one of the first black students of the All-City Performing Groups is giving back what he learned through the program.(New Voices)
June 1, 2004... One Saturday morning in March, a group of black and Latino students dressed in baggy jeans and sports shirts were standing in a semi-circle on the second floor of Gallery 37. Members of the All-City High School Jazz Band, they were focused on...

An about-face: young blacks and Latinos who enlist in the military for skills and training are still getting turned away by employers.(Keeping Current)
June 1, 2004... In high school, all Dion Greer could think about was basketball. Standing 6 feet 3 inches tall, the St. Martin de Porres High School grad won a basketball scholarship to Nappa Valley Community College in California. But his full ride didn't pan...

DCFS says it shouldn't be held responsible for children who die under its watch, but its own inspector general wonders if these lives had to be ... cut short.
June 1, 2004... In the middle of the night, 12-year-old DeMario nudged the only adult in the apartment and told him that his baby sister, Chloe, wasn't breathing. But the man barely responded, suggesting that the baby was fine and the boy should go back to...

Risk factors: the Office of the Inspector General faults DCFS for missing warning signs that turned deadly.
June 1, 2004... A patron of a bowling alley is so disturbed when he sees a boy getting hit and kicked by a man that he calls police. Staff members at a public health clinic are alarmed after overhearing a girl's father order her, in Spanish, to tell the doctor...

Underrepresented: the number of blacks and Latinos in medical schools continues to lag, and efforts to build it are now in jeopardy.
June 1, 2004... In 1980, when Bill McDade entered medical school at the University of Chicago, he was the only African American student in his class. "I felt very isolated," said McDade, who graduated in 1990 and then did his residency at Harvard University's...

Parting shot: May 8, 2004.
June 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Jose Vilella (right), an adult supervisor for the Logan Square Boys and Girls Club, works with Andy Leonardo, 15, and Amber Williams, 14, to clean up the Jimmy Thomas Nature Trail as part of the annual...