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Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2017
How Chicago’s Section 8 voucher voting bloc could sway local elections

Households in the rental assistance program are a significant (and significantly overlooked) constituency in Chicago.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Housing, Politics, Poverty, Chicago Housing Authority, CHA, Section 8, Housing Choice Vouchers, community organizing, electoral politics, 42nd Ward, Cabrini-Green, Dick Simpson, 7th Ward, Greg Mitchell, 16th Ward, Toni Foulkes. Raymond K. Fried, John Stevens

News & Politics, Feature Oct 18, 2017
The Chicago Housing Authority’s sleeping giant

The CHA provides Section 8 vouchers to tens of thousands of low-income households. Is the agency trying to keep them from realizing their collective power?
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Chicago Housing Authority, CHA, Section 8, Housing Choice Vouchers, community organizing, Eugene Jones, Jackie Paige, Valeria Harris, Kim Curtis, Jesse Ruiz, James Bebley, Francine Washington, Central Advisory Council, Robert Whitfield, Noah Moskowitz, Metropolitan Tenants Organization, Helen Finner. Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD, Alicia Avila, Michelle Joiner, Patrick Barberousse, Marion Stamps, Harold Washington, elections, National Housing Residents Association, HCV Participant Council, Participant Advisory Board, Molly Sullivan, Kathryn Ludwig

Arts & Culture, Feature Nov 20, 2013
How to survive a shooting

Nortasha Stingley's 19-year-old daughter, Marissa, was shot dead just blocks from her home. How do you get over a thing like that?
- By Darryl Holliday and E.N. Rodriguez
- Tags: Feature, Nortasha Stingley, Marissa Boyd-Stingley, violence, shootings, gun violence, murder, neighborhoods, Grand Crossing, marches, activism, community organizing, gangs, grief, death

Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2012
Obama's (former) vow to attack poverty

Back when the president was just a candidate, poverty was on his agenda
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Election 2012, Neighborhoods, Poverty, Media, Politics, News, Barack Obama, poverty, Anacostia, Robert F. Kennedy, community organizing, Paul Tough, New York Times, Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada, Bob Herbert, The Grio, Peter Edelman, So Rich So Poor, Valerie Jarrett, Georgetown law

Blogs, Bleader Mar 28, 2012
Thanks for fighting, Robert Lucas

Honoring the legacy of a legendary Chicago civil rights activist
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Politics, Clout City, News, Robert Lucas, Bob Lucas, CORE, Cicero, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard J. Daley, civil rights, civil rights movement, James Ralph, Northern Protest, Otto Kerner, racism, Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, KOCO, Jay Travis, Tim Evans, Toni Preckwinkle, Fourth Ward, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, community organizing

Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2012
Video
Alinsky and Terkel, talking

Saul Alinsky talks with Studs Terkel
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Politics, News Bites, Clout City, Saul Alinsky, community organizing, Studs Terkel, First Unitarian Church of Chicago, Video

News & Politics, Feature Dec 22, 2011
Jay Travis, the organizer

'The notion that you could use your own power to stand up for yourself—and that you could win—captured my imagination'
- Tags: Feature, People Issue 2011, Jay Travis, Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, Kenwood, Kenwood-Oakland, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Robert Lucas, segregation, public housing, Chicago Housing Authority, Robert Taylor homes, community organizing

Blogs, Bleader Aug 27, 2009
Video
Street Gospel
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Michael Pfleger, Rev. Pfleger, Father Pfleger, St. Sabina, Archdiocese of Chicago, priest, pastor, Bob Hercules, Barack Obama, Eva Kor, Saul Alinsky, Senator Obama Goes to Africa, Forgiving Dr. Menegele, Holocaust, Josef Mengele, Mengele Twins, community organizer, community organizing, Black Harvest, Gene Siskel, Film Center, Bob Hercules, Radical Disciple, Video

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How Chicago’s Section 8 voucher voting bloc could sway local elections

Households in the rental assistance program are a significant (and significantly overlooked) constituency in Chicago.

The Chicago Housing Authority’s sleeping giant

The CHA provides Section 8 vouchers to tens of thousands of low-income households. Is the agency trying to keep them from realizing their collective power?

How to survive a shooting

Nortasha Stingley's 19-year-old daughter, Marissa, was shot dead just blocks from her home. How do you get over a thing like that?

Obama's (former) vow to attack poverty

Back when the president was just a candidate, poverty was on his agenda

Thanks for fighting, Robert Lucas

Honoring the legacy of a legendary Chicago civil rights activist

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Alinsky and Terkel, talking

Saul Alinsky talks with Studs Terkel

Jay Travis, the organizer

'The notion that you could use your own power to stand up for yourself—and that you could win—captured my imagination'

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Street Gospel

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Households in the rental assistance program are a significant (and significantly overlooked) constituency in Chicago.

The CHA provides Section 8 vouchers to tens of thousands of low-income households. Is the agency trying to keep them from realizing their collective power?

Nortasha Stingley's 19-year-old daughter, Marissa, was shot dead just blocks from her home. How do you get over a thing like that?

Back when the president was just a candidate, poverty was on his agenda

Honoring the legacy of a legendary Chicago civil rights activist

Saul Alinsky talks with Studs Terkel

'The notion that you could use your own power to stand up for yourself—and that you could win—captured my imagination'

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