The Chicago Reporter articles from November 2003

The Chicago Reporter archives from November 2003

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2003... Thanks for the story on Evanston's schools ["The Costs of Integration," October 2003]. As someone who grew up in Evanston and learned about inequality at an early age, I was glad to see this issue explored in such detail. What made me less...

A matter of trust: a Chicago playwright probes the complicated relationship of race, community and security.(New Voices)
November 1, 2003... In the opening scene of "Homeland Security," the new play by Chicago writer Stuart Flack, Raj, an Indian American doctor in his 30s, and Susan, his Jewish girlfriend, are seated in a small room at the airport. Besides the two of them, it...

Good cops, bad cops: a former public housing cop faces charges--six years after the alleged incident. Some say it's punishment for taking on corruption.(Keeping Current)
November 1, 2003... Ask LeRoy O'Shield about the state of corruption in Chicago's law enforcement community, and he quickly reaches his boiling point. Real corruption exists, says O'Shield, a former Chicago Housing Authority police chief and, before that, a...

No turning back: former inmates navigate a narrow road to stable jobs--the thing they need most to keep from going back to prison.
November 1, 2003... Garland Rutledge is a realist. A hard life and nearly 30 years of cycling in and out of prison have legit Rutledge, 44, with a thin frame and eyes shadowed by dark bags. Now all he wants is a job. But, in the two years since his most...

Staying on the path: an ex-offender struggles to make a new life in a community he once 'terrorized.'.
November 1, 2003... The warm, early spring day makes the dry heat in the dusty stairwell stifling. On the first landing, 10-year-old Kewone and 8-year-old Kendal stop at a door. Coming up behind them, their father, Keith Gatewood, calls out that the door across...

Parting shot.
November 1, 2003... October 14, 2003 Pennant fever infects most of Chicago--especially the streets just outside Wrigley Field, where fans cheer, wave sign, share drinks and dance in support of the Cubs' drive for their first World Series appearance in 58...