The Chicago Reporter articles from May 2001

The Chicago Reporter archives from May 2001

The New Great White Hope.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... George W. Bush's administration may offer African Americans their best hope in 35 years for achieving true equality, writes John H. McWhorter in an essay in the spring edition of City Journal, a national magazine about urban governance and...

Chicago Valedictorians Struggle to Stay Competitive.
May 1, 2001... Even though she worked hard and earned top grades in almost all her classes, Wendy Purham said her principal at Jean Baptiste Point DuSable High School gave up on her and made her feel her dream of becoming valedictorian was beyond reach. So...

Cook County Offenders Lose Out in Drug Treatment Revival.
May 1, 2001... Keevin Irons' turning point came after his seventh arrest. For 20 years, the 41-year-old native of south suburban Chicago Heights had been hooked on drugs. "I didn't know that it would cause me to make a career out of it," he said, "but it did,...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
May 1, 2001... To the Editor: I was terribly disappointed when I read the quote you attributed to me in your comprehensive examination of "Babies and Drugs: Shattering Myths" (February/March 2001). At no time did I say, directly or indirectly, that the...

Reporter Racks Up Honors.(Chicago Reporter)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... On April 27 The Chicago Reporter won two Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism from the Chicago Headline Club, the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Jim McGowan, the Reporter's longtime graphic designer, won in...

New Grants.
May 1, 2001... In other news, three foundations renewed their support to the Reporter. The Joyce Foundation awarded the publication a two-year, $150,000 grant to underwrite its coverage of government and politics. The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation announced...

Corrections.
May 1, 2001... The Page 3 photo in the April 2001 issue should have been credited to photographer Marc Monaghan. The name of Chicago Defender columnist Theresa Fambro Hooks was misspelled on page 11. The editor regrets the errors.

Rogers Park Community Action Network.(new fire station could put minorities out of business)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... * The city is proposing to raze the Mega Mall at 7212 N. Clark St. and build a new fire station there that could put Korean, Latino and other minority vendors out of business, said Francisco Ramos, executive director of the Rogers Park...

Georgia Institute of Technology.(replacing the worst for the bad)(Interview)
May 1, 2001... The poorest and toughest-to-help Americans have been abandoned "in favor of the less desperate," Georgia Institute of Technology's Larry Keating, an associate professor of city and regional planning, tells Staff Writer Christopher Swope in the...

What it Means to be Daddy.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Single African American females headed 60 percent of the black households with children in 1994, cites author Jennifer Hamer in her new book, "What it Means to be Daddy." The book examines black fathers who live away from their children and the...

"Have You Ever Seen A Real Indian?".(Cleveland Indians mascot)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... More people in this country can identify with the Cleveland Indians' mascot--Chief Wahoo--than a real Native American such as Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, writes columnist Rick Telander in the May 7 Chicago Sun-Times. "The wildly grinning,...

USA Today column.(racial profiling and police abuse)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The racial violence that erupted in Cincinnati in April will not be an anomaly, writes DeWayne Wickham in his April 17 USA Today column. "Given the widespread reports of racial profiling, it seems only a matter of time before what happened in...

MotherJones.(race factor in riot and protest)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The subject of the race of demonstrators who protested a police shooting in Cincinnati last month marked the difference between the media's characterization of the Cincinnati disturbances--dubbed a riot--and a similar outbreak in Quebec City at...

Nonpartisan research group.(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports on federal tax cuts)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... * Many low-income families with children will not benefit from new federal tax cuts, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington D.C.-based nonpartisan research group. The $1.35 trillion plan is aimed at reducing...

Roseland Taverns Keep Fighting.(vote to ban liquor sales in seven Chicago precincts is referred to the Illinois Supreme Court)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The grass roots campaign to close down liquor establishments in Chicago's 9th Ward ended more than two years ago. But some residents of Roseland, on the Far South Side, still await the fruits of their labors as the liquor industry fights to...

Nonprofit research group.(Child Trends reports sharp increase in births to unwed mothers)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... * A study released in March by Child Trends, a Washington D.C.-based, nonprofit research group that studies family issues, found that in 1998, births to unmarried white mothers nearly tripled, to about 37.5 per 1,000. But Latino mothers...

Boeing Co.(Boeing relocates to Chicago, Illinois, at least in part because of the city's cultural diversity)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... * When the Seattle-based Boeing Co. announced in March it would relocate, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and Illinois Gov. George H. Ryan put together a "blue ribbon committee" to woo the company. In an April 10 press statement with Ryan, Daley...