The Chicago Reporter back issues from November 2008:
Cashing in contributions.(EDITOR'S NOTE: Reporter News)(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2008; ... I thought that the customer was always right. Maybe the motto doesn't apply if a customer's desire to remain healthy is outweighed by a company's desire to stay wealthy. For years, customers of the energy produced at Chicago's two coal-burning power plants have lobbied and ...
Reporter news.(EDITOR'S NOTE: Reporter News)
Nov 01, 2008 ... One Chicago Reporter investigation helped spur a legal victory aroundforeclosures, and another could be used to provide school funding equity throughout the state. In October, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced an $8.7 billion settlement with ...
Immigrants face delays.(SPINOFFS: Keeping Current)
Nov 01, 2008; ... The news: In October, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services began administering a revised naturalization test for citizenship applicants. Behind the news: The average processing time for citizenship applicants in the Chicago office of the U.S ....
City's worst polluter moving to South Side.(SPINOFFS: Keeping Current)(Finkl and Sons steel mill in Chicago)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The news: A. Finkl and Sons steel mill will be moving from the North Side of Chicago to the South Side in early 2010. Behind the news: According to A. Finkl and Sons, the company is committed to improving the environment ....
Minorities least likely to afford bailout.(SPINOFFS: Keeping Current)(bailout of the financial institutions )
Nov 01, 2008; ... The news: The bailout of the nation's financial institutions authorizes the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to spend up to $700 billion to purchase bad mortgage-related debt. Behind the news: Can the average taxpayer afford to foot the bill? The Chicago ...
Even now, women paid less for the same work.(SPINOFFS: Keeping Current)
Nov 01, 2008; ... The news: The National Organization for Women Political Action Committee endorses the Democratic presidential ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden in September. Behind the news: According to Illinois Department of Employment Security, the average income ...
Campus of care: one woman realizes dream to provide medical service, regardless of people's ability to pay.(Q&A: Carmen Velasquez)(Interview)
Nov 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On a cool afternoon in Pilsen, Carmen Velasquez looks out of her second floor office window in the Alivio Medical Center on 21st Street. Below, in what was a vacant lot, construction workers busily work on a new building. Velasquez smiles as she watches, ...
Fallen & forgotten: Congress approved the extension of immigration benefits to families of fallen U.S. service members four years ago, but the families say they never received them.(Missed Benefits)(Cover story)
Nov 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They were two very different families One was from Chandigarh in the northern reaches of India near Kashmir, halfway between the borders of Pakistan and China. The other, from Lagos, the burgeoning former capital of Nigeria on the African coast of the ...
Dying for the U.S.(Missed Benefits)(combat deaths)(List)
Nov 01, 2008 ... Between Sept. 11, 2001, and Aug. 15, 2008, 148 of the combat deaths were service members who enlisted in the military as permanent legal residents. They hailed from 41 countries--a third of them from Mexico. Most enlisted in the Army Reserves, and nearly half of the 148 people killed were ...
Deployed and deported.(Missed Benefits)(soldiers' spouse's immigration status)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Yolanda Guevara knows she could be called up at any moment. Guevara is a rear detachment commander for her Army Reserve unit, which has already been deployed to Kuwait. It's a matter of time before she would have to leave her husband and three children in North Carolina to join her unit ....
Fighting to belong: some immigrants choose military service before citizenship.(Best Practices)
Nov 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On a Friday evening in May, Bill Zhang joined 29 other U.S. soldiers for a solemn ceremony at the Pritzker Military Library in Chicago. Zhang, a construction and electrical worker for the Navy, was joined by members of the Army, Air Force, Coast Guard and ...
Toxic neighbor: health problems persist for Latinos living near coal plants in and around Chicago, despite the state's efforts to promote clean air.(CHICAGO MATTERS: Coal Emissions)
Nov 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From the friendly confines of Dvorak Park in Pilsen, Maria Chavez hopped on her bike and rode along the weedy sidewalks across busy Cermak Avenue just to marvel at the jet black piles of coal stacked outside the Fisk coal-burning power plant. The coal was ...
Creating energy from waste: how one company reduces emissions by recycling energy.(Best Practices)
Nov 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When businessman and environmentalist Tom Casten sees the Fisk and Crawford coal-burning plants spewing their emissions above Chicago, he gets angry. Not only because of the public health effects of the emissions, but because he knows there is a much ...
October 4, 2008.(PARTING SHOT: Paying Respects)
Nov 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At the Church of Good News, Autumn Rae Winston pays her respects at the ...