The Chicago Reporter articles from October 2004

The Chicago Reporter archives from October 2004

Letter to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
October 1, 2004... In a recent group of articles [July/August 2004], your publication wrote about crime in public housing communities and also in communities where public housing residents have relocated as a part of the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for...

Correction.(Correction notice)
October 1, 2004... Correction: The September article on how lead abatement and mitigation money is spent incorrectly characterized lead poisoning among Chicago children. The city has the highest number, not the highest percentage, of lead-poisoned children in the...

Our country: as the area's Muslim population grows, community members hope to spread the truth about Islam.(New Voices)
October 1, 2004... Like many residents of southwest suburban Orland Park, Robert Barlog grew concerned about the proposed construction of a mosque after an anonymous group put a flier in his mailbox. The flier not only warned that the mosque would cause...

Standing in line: in Chicago, blacks are out of work at higher rates and for longer periods of time than whites.(Keeping Current)
October 1, 2004... The lines circled Soldier Field and extended over some of the small grassy hills that surround it. Organizers for the Chicago Tribune's CareerBuilder Career Fair 2004 expected at least 7,500, but 11,000 people showed up, most in suits and ties,...

Abitrary lines: the movement to treat teens as adults when they commit crimes loses steam.(INVESTIGATION)
October 1, 2004... A series of heinous crimes committed by young people in the early 1980s spawned the idea of the super-predator. Seeing them as ruthless and unredeemable, politicians declared these young people would get adult time for adult crime. Over...

Successful steps: a strategy shift means fewer teens get sent to juvenile jail.(INVESTIGATION)
October 1, 2004... Each teenager was told to write a short essay: If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be? Pencils scratched away at notebook paper. The writing of a skinny 15-year-old with deep-set eyes spilled over a page-and-a-half....

A challenging election: Chicagoans may be ready to cast their votes in the November election, but in some neighborhoods they will face hurdles at the polls.(INVESTIGATION)
October 1, 2004... Mary Russell Gardner and her family have lived in the same west Austin house, in the 47th precinct of the 29th Ward, since 1985. Bounded by Ohio and Lake streets, the precinct stretches across nine blocks where kids play amid tall trees and...

Failure to report: police officials refuse to provide key details about alleged unreasonable force.(INVESTIGATION)
October 1, 2004... The Chicago Police Department has omitted the most vital part of a state-mandated report that could help reveal if it has any rogue cops. After more than a decade of breaking the state law requiring the port, the department last month...

October 14, 2004.(Parting Shot)
October 1, 2004... Laura Thompson of Oak Park stocks up on garden supplies at Gethsemane Garden Center in Edgewater on Chicago's North Side. Photo by Jason Reblando. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]