The Chicago Reporter articles from October 2002

The Chicago Reporter archives from October 2002

Walking away from civil war.(Sudanese refugees)
October 1, 2002... When Peter Magai Bul and other Sudanese boys came to the attention of aid workers in the early 1990s, they presented a grim image: a river of thousands of children, uprooted from their homes amid the chaos of Sudan's civil war, rail-thin and...

The poor play more.(lotteries)
October 1, 2002... Contributing: Rupa Shenoy. Shawn Allee, Dominick Basta, Jocelyn Prince and Julia Steinberger helped research this article. It's just minutes before the televised noon lottery drawing, and hurried, last-minute players are lining up inside...

Lottery payoff uncertain for schools.
October 1, 2002... In 1972, Illinois legislators proposed a lottery with the promise of bringing in more revenue for the state's public schools. But this year, the Education Funding Advisory Board of the cash-strapped Illinois State Board of Education...

One year later, CHA program a work in progress.(Chicago Housing Authority)
October 1, 2002... A year after its launch, city officials are still struggling to define and implement an ambitious program to help public housing tenants get jobs and social services. More than 1,200 residents were placed in jobs by Aug. 31, but many were...

Campaigns vie for suburban Latinos.
October 1, 2002... If this is the year Democrats break an almost three-decade-long losing streak and win the Illinois governor's mansion, the changing political and racial landscape in the five counties that surround Chicago and Cook County might be the key. ...

The Chicago Reporter: August 1981.(Reprint)
October 1, 2002... Chicago community areas that were at least 50 percent African American or Latino had a higher concentration of vendors for the state lottery's Daily Game than white areas, the Reporter found. Black areas had one Daily Game agent for every 6,587...

Keeping current: race and power in a preschool.
October 1, 2002... Renee, Christie and Amy, all 4-year-olds in preschool, began discussing the color of their arms. Renee, who was white, told a teacher's aide that the other girls--one white, the other biracial--"are the same color." The aide said she was right,...