The Chicago Reporter articles from May 2003

The Chicago Reporter archives from May 2003

Speaking out about affirmative action.(Interview)
May 1, 2003... In high school, Donald Hubert, a poor kid from the South Side's Englewood neighborhood, was assigned to classes that prepared him to become a laborer, and few classmates assumed he'd do anything different. Even his mother encouraged him to join...

Whites struggle to adjust in newly latino neighborhood.(Belmont Cragin)
May 1, 2003... A drive down the 5700 block of West Belmont Avenue, the hub of the Northwest Side community of Belmont Cragin, is like a scene from another era. Stores such as Dom & Ksiazki Polish Bookstore, Gene's Old World Sausage Shop and Staropoiska's...

Expanding Chicago's public square.
May 1, 2003... "You don't have to be Kissinger to know that bombing people in Iraq is wrong," insisted Mary Rickard, drawing several groans of disagreement from the strangers she was addressing. Rickard, a 50-year-old public relations and marketing consultant...

Eliminating the competition.
May 1, 2003... First Ward Alderman Jesse Granato went into this year's election attempting to do what has become a common first step for incumbents in local aldermanic campaigns: eliminate the competition. Manuel "Manny" Flores, Howard L. Crawford Jr. and...

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2003... To the Editor: I saw your report ["Watchdog Criticizes CHA Plan," March 2003] and thought I could share my story with you. I was a teenage African-American mother at the age of 16. I grew up in a poor environment, dysfunctional family,...

National Unity Award in Media from Lincoln University of Missouri. (Reporter News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Senior Editor Alden K. Loury earned a national Unity Award in Media from Lincoln University of Missouri for investigative reporting in his three-part series on the War on Drugs (January; March, May 2002). This series is also a finalist in the...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
May 1, 2003... Raynard Hall's name was misspelled in the Reporter's April issue.

The Chicago Reporter: April 1998.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Wrightwood, a middle class community on Chicago's Southwest Side, experienced subtle tensions as blacks moved into the pre dominantly white area, the Reporter found. Though Wright wood's white population had fallen by more than half since 1980,...

Collateral damage. (Keeping Current).
May 1, 2003... Call it a Muslim American version of the government's duct tape advice: Consider reinforcing the doors of the mosque, develop an emergency contact list, don't open suspicious packages. Throughout the conflict in Iraq, some Muslim leaders...