The Chicago Reporter articles from May 2002

The Chicago Reporter archives from May 2002

'The people are the church'. (New Voices).(Evanston deacon Mario Tamayo)(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 1, 2002... In 1996, 18-year-old Mario Ramos, a popular member of St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Evanston, shot and killed another teen-ager under orders from a street gang. The incident galvanized the church's Latino community, which makes up about 15...

Paperwork masks repeat offenders. (Absentee Landlords).(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... Ernestine Jackson thought at first that the January chill invading her Englewood apartment was temporary. She bought two electric heaters. She burned her stove for extra warmth, and boiled water for baths. She wore layers and layers of...

Some landlords called into court--again and again.(Chicago region)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Tax scavenger Tony Bryant tops a list of the owners and management companies with chronic building court violations, according to The Chicago Reporter's analysis of Cook County Circuit Court records. In the past five years, Bryant has been...

West Side residents battle drug war realities.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... For most, the stories of drug trafficking are documented in 30- and 60-second stories on the evening news. But for others, like Allie Pack, the drama unfolds 24 hours a day in front of her Humboldt Park home. Pack can see it all from her...

Schultz leaving the reporter. (Reporter News).(Susan J. Schultz )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Consulting Editor Susan J. Schultz left the Reporter May 1. Schultz, who held the post for one year, will be associate editor for Chicago Parent, an Oak Park-based magazine. She will also write a column on politics and children. Schultz was a...

The Chicago reporter: June 1989. (Reporter News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... More than 120,000 low-income minority families live in sub-standard housing in Chicago, and 95 percent occupy rental units, according to the Chicago Department of Housing. Many of the rental properties are owned by absentee landlords.

A Cherokee alphabet, a Muslim slave and a new national culture. (Keeping Current).(A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States)
May 1, 2002... In 1828, President John Quincy Adams wrote in his diary about meeting with a group of Cherokee Indians to negotiate a treaty. He was impressed with an elder member of the tribe named Sequoyah, who had created an alphabet for the Cherokees'...

Washington, D.C.-based Institute of Medicine, a nonprofit that advises Congress. (Keeping Current).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Minorities in the United States receive lower-quality health care than whites, even when their insurance and income are the same, according to a March 20 report by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute of Medicine, a nonprofit that advises...

The West Side residents and the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law charged that Richard B. Nelson and other Easy Life Real Estate Management. (Keeping Current).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The president of a mortgage company, found guilty of fraud for selling defective homes to low-income residents in the Austin community, was sentenced April 5 to 15 months in federal prison and fined $4,000. The West Side residents and the...

Kevin Bales. (Keeping Current).(report on slavery in Scientific American)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Contrary to common belief, slavery continues to be practiced around the world, reports Kevin Bales in the April issue of Scientific American. Bales, a sociology professor at the University of Surrey Roehampton in London, cites South Asia and...