Also, Dick Durbin says he isn’t interested in running for governor.
Tag: racial segregation
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Rahm Emanuel’s plan for a healthy, segregated Chicago
A report by the mayor’s public health department offers 200 “actionable strategies” to diminish health inequities. Reducing segregation isn’t one of them.
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Fifty years after LBJ challenged the nation, the rights of African-Americans remain unfulfilled
“We’ve got to find a way to let Negroes get what most white folks already have,” Lyndon Johnson told his speechwriter in 1965.
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The mayoral race and the color of inequality in Chicago
If the city’s white unemployment rate were nearly triple the black rate, would the Tribune say fiscal policy was the only issue that mattered?
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Emanuel and Garcia offered weak responses on segregation at Monday’s debate
A college student asks the mayoral candidates about segregation, and is disappointed by their answers.
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Rahm Emanuel finds the sunny side of racial segregation
The mayor gives a curious answer during last night’s debate.
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Mayoral candidates still have a chance to speak up about racial segregation—will they?
There are two Chicagos, Emanuel’s challengers agree. But so far, only one of the challengers has pinpointed the underlying problem.
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The most important issue no one’s talking about in the mayoral race
Racial segregation continues to inflict wounds on the south and west sides. And once again it’s ignored on the campaign trail.
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Mayoral candidates speak up about Chicago’s segregation
Well, at least four of the five did.
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The deeper issue for Chicago schools
CPS doesn’t have too few kids, but too many kids who are poor.
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Segregation and Obama’s second term
It’s never politically expedient for a president to fight segregation
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Best Reminder of How Chicago Got So Segregated
Former home of the Hansberry family
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The end of segregation?
Things look rosier in a new study than they do at 55th and Ashland