• Newsletters
  • Donate now
  • CITY LIFE
    • Out Here
    • Public Service Announcement
    • Shop Local
    • Street View
    • The Sound Issue
    • Best of Chicago: City Life
    • Best of Chicago: Buy Local
    • Best of Chicago: Cannabis
    • Best of Chicago: Sports & Recreation
  • NEWS & POLITICS
    • News
    • Features
    • En español
    • Podcasts
      • The Ben Joravsky Show
      • Chicago Queer & Now
  • COLUMNS & OPINION
    • Anthony Ehlers: On Prisons
    • John Greenfield: On Transportation
    • Deanna Isaacs: On Culture
    • Ben Joravsky: On Politics
    • The Ben Joravsky Show
    • Dan Savage: Savage Love
    • Opinion
  • MUSIC
    • Music Features
    • Chicagoans of Note
    • Gossip Wolf
    • The Listener
    • The Secret History of Chicago Music
    • Music Reviews
    • Concert Previews
    • Early Warnings
    • Music listings community calendar
    • The Sound Issue
    • Best of Chicago: Music & Nightlife
    • Chicago in Tune guide
    • Bull Horn (paid sponsored content)
  • ARTS & CULTURE
    • Summer Theater & Arts Preview
    • Features
    • Theater
    • Dance
    • Visual arts
    • Book reviews
    • Ghost Light by Kerry Reid
    • The Sound Issue
    • Best of Chicago: Arts & Culture
    • Arts listings community calendar
  • FILM
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Small Screen
    • Archives
  • FOOD & DRINK
    • The Drinks Issue
    • Features
    • Reviews
    • Best of Chicago: Food & Drink
    • Sommelier Series (paid sponsored content)
  • READER
    • About
      • Contact
      • Staff
      • Careers
    • Newsletters
    • Find a print copy
      • Print subscriptions
    • Advertise
    • Donate
    • Become a member
    • Contests
    • Reader Store
    • Classifieds
      • Matches
    • Nonprofit Guide
    • Reader 50
    • Best of Chicago
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
Chicago Reader

Chicago Reader

Chicago’s alternative nonprofit newsroom

Donate now
  • »
  • Summer Theater & Arts Preview
  • The Pride Issue
  • Latest issue
  • Reader 50
  • Nonprofit Guide
  • En español
  • Contests
  • Reader Store
  • Advertise
Home » mental health clinics » Page 2

Tag: mental health clinics

Activist N’Dana Carter and fellow protester "Mo" at the Woodlawn mental health clinic. Mo turned out to be an undercover police officer named Mehmet Uygun.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

How the city cut funds for mental health patients—and spied on them instead

by Ben Joravsky August 5, 2014August 18, 2021

While closing clinics, the city found money for spying on protesters.

Activist N’Dana Carter says she still wants a hearing to discuss the impact of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s decision to shutter mental health clinics.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Rahm still hasn’t told the public why he closed mental health clinics

by Ben Joravsky July 29, 2014August 18, 2021

Rahm still hasn’t told the public why he closed mental health clinics.

Expect Mayor Rahm Emanuel to try attaching himself to the hip of Congressman Luis Gutierrez as he searches for support among Hispanic voters.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Rahm reels toward his reelection bid

by Ben Joravsky May 13, 2014August 18, 2021

A new poll is the latest sign that Mayor Emanuel could be in trouble.

Aldermen Scott Waguespack, Robert Fioretti, and Roderick Sawyer listen during the budget hearing hosted by the City Council's progressive caucus.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The people sound off on Mayor Emanuel’s budget—but he’s not listening

by Ben Joravsky November 5, 2013August 19, 2021

The City Council’s progressive caucus holds a budget hearing, because someone has to.

Keith Richardson, an activist who wants to renew the fight against crime and unemployment, plans to be part of the August 28 anniversary march in Washington.
Posted inNews & Politics

A new generation of activists fights injustice, from school cuts to Trayvon Martin

by Mick Dumke August 21, 2013August 19, 2021

March on Washington anniversary: A new generation of activists fights for change, from school cuts to Trayvon Martin.

Posted inBlogs

Looks like Governor Quinn will have to save us from Mayor Rahm—again!

by Ben Joravsky May 22, 2013August 19, 2021

Let’s add Governor Quinn’s name to the long list of people Mayor Rahm won’t talk to.

Posted inBlogs

How would Mayor Emanuel treat the Ricketts family if they were poor?

by Ben Joravsky April 17, 2013August 19, 2021

Let’s say as poor and powerless as the people whose schools and mental health clinics he’s closing

Activists protested the closing of the city's mental health clinic in Woodlawn last year, and they're vowing to continue the fight.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Before the schools, Mayor Emanuel closed the clinics

by Ben Joravsky March 26, 2013August 19, 2021

Before Mayor Emanuel proposed closing schools, he shuttered mental health clinics.

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2

Get the Reader's free daily newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday.

Latest Stories

The real Maenads of Monmouth

Theater Wit’s environmental comedic fable Hurricane Diane places Dionysus in New Jersey.
by Kerry Reid

An Antigone for our times

Redtwist presents Anne Carson’s contemporary translation of the Sophoclean tragedy.
by Albert Williams

Girl, interrupted

In the musical Life After, a teenager struggles to understand her father’s death.
by Kerry Reid

Metro hosts a joyful send-off for the late Cynthia Plaster Caster

Plus: A video celebration of footwork culture and the Bud Billiken Parade debuts on the side of the Merchandise Mart, and Chicago Film Archives pairs musicians and movie makers for its Media Mixer.
by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil

A flexible position on free speech

Looks like Elon Musk believes in free speech for everyone except his SpaceX employees.
by Ben Joravsky
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Best of Chicago 2021

About the Chicago Reader
Reader Staff
Reader Careers
Freelance Information
Contact Us
Become a member
Donate

Advertise

Find the Paper
Subscribe
Shop the Reader Store
Contests/Giveaways/Promotions

Reader Classifieds

Reader Matches

Chicago Reader Nonprofit Guide

Get our free newsletters

Privacy Policy | Terms of Use

© 2022 Chicago Reader. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic