The Chicago Reporter articles from March 2002

The Chicago Reporter archives from March 2002

Steel worker laments the end of an era. (New Voices).(Johnnie Barbee)(Interview)
March 1, 2002... On a recent Friday afternoon, downtown East Chicago, Ind., was desolate, save the headquarters of Local 1011 of the United Steelworkers union. At a standing-room-only meeting inside, a banker tried to convince laid-off employees of LTV Steel's...

At any price: Marriage and battered immigrant women.
March 1, 2002... Marisol Flores pulled out two Polaroid pictures. They showed a bloodshot left eye about ready to pop out and a dark welt just below it. The photographs, she said, were taken almost a month after her ex-husband, in a fit of rage, beat her...

Drug arrests nab minorities.
March 1, 2002... A crowd gathered around Dan Bigg on a recent Sunday afternoon as he sat in the back of an oversized, silver-gray van parked with the engine running in Uptown's "Blood Alley," an area off West Wilson Avenue. For two hours, Bigg talked to...

Suburban black votes crucial for candidates.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Since Hazel Crest Village President William A. Browne endorsed Roland Burris for governor in the March 19 Democratic primary; he hasn't seen much of him. In fact, Browne has heard more from another candidate, Paul Vallas. Vallas "has tried...

Cabrini election caught up in court.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... On Jan. 22, residents of the Cabrini-Green public housing development chose a new president for their local advisory council, the group charged with giving voice to tenants' concerns. But while a vocal Chicago Housing Authority critic was named...

Grants and honors.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families has awarded a $2,000 study/travel grant to The Chicago Reporter and CATALYST: Voices of Chicago School Reform, for a joint investigation on the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. ...

The Chicago Reporter: March 1995.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... In an unsuccessful 1994 primary campaign for governor, Roland W. Burris, who is African American, received 89 percent of the votes in the city's predominantly black precincts and 13 percent in white precincts, according to a Reporter analysis.

Keeping current: Web site educates, offends, then disappears.(internet)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... An Internet search engine called GoMammy.com, which has attracted nearly 30,000 visitors and 50 advertisers since its December launch, has renewed a debate about whether racially charged images can be used to educate. The site features an...