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Author Archives: Kari Lydersen

Posted inNews & Politics

Coronavirus leaves immigrants trapped in a byzantine court system

by Stephen Franklin, Catherine Kim, Areeba Shah, Shreya Bansal, LaTesha Harris, Wanying Zhao and Kari Lydersen April 22, 2020August 18, 2021

Many are without lawyers and more frightened and confused than ever.

Posted inNews & Politics

Why Chicago’s not buying Rahm’s new liberal hero persona

by Kari Lydersen December 21, 2017August 18, 2021

Critics say Mayor 1 Percent’s rhetoric doesn’t line up with the policies he’s enacting.

Posted inNews & Politics

Home sweet home for the homeless

by Lloyd DeGrane and Kari Lydersen May 10, 2017August 18, 2021

For thousands of Chicagoans “living outside,” for better or worse, home is still where they make it.

Posted inBlogs

Residents of a Bridgeport SRO are told they have until the end of the day to get out

by Kari Lydersen September 12, 2016August 18, 2021

The self-described “black sheep of Bridgeport” are struggling to hold on to housing.

Posted inNews & Politics

The residents of Rezkoville’s tent city battle the elements—and personal demons

by Kari Lydersen and Lloyd DeGrane June 29, 2016August 18, 2021

The vacant, 62-acre site in the shadow of downtown Chicago is the closest thing some have to home.

Posted inNews & Politics

Illinois coal’s last stand

by Kari Lydersen June 15, 2016August 18, 2021

Even as people bemoan its environmental and health effects, the prospect of its demise sparks fear and nostalgia.

Posted inNews & Politics

The last days of the Lugo Hotel?

by Kari Lydersen March 4, 2016August 18, 2021

The for-sale Pilsen SRO sees time running out under a city ordinance meant to preserve affordable housing.

Posted inNews & Politics

It Isn’t Easy Voting Green

by Kari Lydersen February 17, 2011August 19, 2021

Pro-environment talk is cheap. Which mayoral candidates will back it up?

Coal-fired power plant, originally designed as a nuclear plant, A cooling tower looms over a home in Michigan City.
Posted inNews & Politics

Toxic Tour of Northwest Indiana

by Kari Lydersen February 3, 2011August 19, 2021

Photography by Lloyd DeGrane. Text by Kari Lydersen.

Green Party candidates, from left: Simon Ribeiro, George Milkowski, Paloma Andrade, Alberto Bocanegra (in back), Rich Whitney, LeAlan Jones, Scott Summers, Jeremy Karpen, Bob Mueller, Rob Burns
Posted inNews & Politics

The Silver Lining Party

by Kari Lydersen November 18, 2010August 19, 2021

Despite costly losses at the polls, the Illinois Greens insist they aren’t blue.

Fisk Generating Station, 1111 W. Cermak
Posted inNews & Politics

Chicago Without Coal

by Kari Lydersen October 14, 2010August 19, 2021

What would it take for the Fisk, Crawford, and State Line coal-fired power plants to close up shop? And what would happen if they did?

Lindsay Chadderton taking water samples in the Chicago River
Posted inNews & Politics

What the Cells Tell

by Kari Lydersen March 25, 2010August 19, 2021

The scientist who developed the new eDNA test says there are already Asian carp in Lake Michigan.

Bighead carp at the Shedd Aquarium
Posted inNews & Politics

The Carp Issue

by Ryan Chew, Kari Lydersen and Mike Sula March 25, 2010August 19, 2021

The threat, the science, the culinary solution

Jeff Biggers
Posted inNews & Politics

Closer Than Matewan

by Kari Lydersen January 28, 2010August 19, 2021

Jeff Biggers explores the devastation coal has wrought on southern Illinois—and his own family.

Posted inNews & Politics

Is It Too Easy to Clobber a Cabbie?

by Kari Lydersen October 15, 2009August 19, 2021

Walid Ziada’s fellow cabbies say his attackers are getting off lightly—despite a new state law intended to protect taxi drivers

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