The Chicago Reporter articles from November 2007

The Chicago Reporter archives from November 2007

The accountability search.(EDITOR'S NOTE: Reporter News)
November 1, 2007... We're still running, and with good reason. Three years ago, the Reporter found that more Chicagoans are shot by police than New Yorkers. African Americans--a large number of the victims--also often fled, and shot at, the officers who...

Subprime mortgages.(REPORTER IMPACT)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... The Reporter's online exclusive drew widespread media attention and praise from Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus cited findings from our work, which showed the Chicago region led the nation in...

National award.(REPORTER IMPACT)(51 cents an hour Ricardo Veisaga)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... The Association for Women in Communications selected Kelly's story, "51 cents an hour" [May/June 2006] for its Clarion Award in the magazine features category. The competition, which drew over 600 entries, symbolizes "excellence in clear,...

Community reacts.(REPORTER IMPACT)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Workers of all races must have open dialogue to preserve their rights, according to Ari Glazer of the San Lucas Workers Center, which assists some of the region's 300,000 African-American and Latino day laborers. The comments were part of an...

'No match' means no job?(SPINOFFS: Keeping Current)(social security numbers )(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... The news: Elvira Arellano, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who spent much of the last year holed up in a Northwest Side church, was deported in August. Arellano had been given a deportation order after she was found to have used a fake...

Ethnic toys aimed at diverse consumers.(SPINOFFS: Keeping Current)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The news: Discount retail store Kmart expanded its toy collection in August to include multiethnic dolls that reflect diverse backgrounds of the children who play with them. Behind the news: The...

Black babies die at higher rates.
November 1, 2007... The news: According to the National Vital Statistics Reports released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in August, the infant mortality rate was 6.79 deaths per 1,000 "live births" in the country. Behind the news:...

Hate crimes decline, but some are skeptical.
November 1, 2007... The news: In September, a 62-year-old Vietnamese man drowned after being pushed into Lake Michigan, allegedly by a group of five people. The main perpetrator, John J. Haley, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder but not with a...

Caught in the crossfire: retired police officer fights for fair treatment of black officers and fair policing of black communities.(Q&A Patricia Hill)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For six years, women scarcely walked the streets of 75th and Dorchester, intimidated by neighborhood crime and the area's poor lighting at night. During the day, the sound of soda cans crackled under pedestrians'...

To serve and protect? Some say fatal shootings could have been prevented if the Chicago Police Department kept better watch over its officers.(Police Shootings)(Cover story)
November 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The accents of both sides converged only at the end: the death of Dantwan Betts, who was shot and killed by Chicago Police Officer Richard Doroniuk. Before that point, much differed. The story told m the...

Black, Latino suburbs have most shooting.(Police Shootings)(Cover story)
November 1, 2007... In Chicago suburbs, more police shootings have occurred in communities with large black or Latino populations, The Chicago Reporter found. Using news articles and court records, the Reporter gathered information on police shootings...

Race as a trigger.(Police Shootings)(Cover story)
November 1, 2007... Would an unarmed black man be spared a barrage of 41 bullets fired by police officers if he were white? It is a question that's been consuming Joshua Correll ever since Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old Guinean immigrant, was killed by New York...

D.C. turns the tide: accountability and training help cut the number of shootings drastically.(Best Practices)
November 1, 2007... In 1998, an eight-month Washington Post investigation found that the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department had shot and killed more people per resident in the 1990s than any other large municipal police force in the country....

True North Festival.(PARTING SHOT)
November 1, 2007... August 18, 2007 Storyteller Marlene B. Rivero re-enacts Harriet Tubman for attendees of the True North Festival, put on by the Chicago/Calumet Underground Railroad Effort near Altgeld Gardens public housing development.