Leer en español mazon is among Chicago’s biggest employers—and unlike many industries, its Chicago footprint grew rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, scouting new sites in Pullman, McKinley Park, Gage Park, West Humboldt Park, and other neighborhoods. By the same token, worker organizing at local Amazon sites took off in 2019, and as the corporation built […]
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Omicron and Testing FAQ: When to Test, How Accurate are Home Tests and More
This article was originally published by University of Chicago Medicine and has been republished with permission. As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 surges around the country, we’re seeing increases in infections, even among people who’ve been fully vaccinated and have what are called breakthrough infections. As case counts surge, so does demand for testing. As […]
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Reframing the Conversation Around Gun Violence
e should be talking about gun violence as a public health issue—but not treat it like we’ve done with COVID-19,” said Kam Buckner, Illinois State Representative for the 26th District, referring to the Trump administration’s early, bungled handling of the pandemic. In a clean, well-lit room in the University of Chicago’s Center for Identity + […]
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Chicago Powwow Returns, Reflecting Native Community’s Resilience
undreds of people in the Chicago area gathered on the weekend of October 8 in the Schiller Woods Forest Preserve about an hour west of Chicago for the 68th Annual Chicago Powwow. The event was cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected Native communities across the country despite them having […]
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Empleados de El Milagro dicen que los trabajan como máquinas
Read in English a semana pasada, decenas de empleados se salieron del trabajo en dos de las plantas de Tortillería El Milagro, citando sueldos bajos, una pérdida constante de empleados y una cultura laboral tóxica que ha contribuido a una escasez de la popular tortilla en todo el país. Rumores de malas condiciones laborales comenzaron […]
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El Milagro Employees Say They’re Worked Like Machines
Leer en español ast week, dozens of employees walked off the job in two of El Milagro’s tortilla plants, citing low wages, high turnover, and a toxic work culture that has contributed to a nationwide shortage of the popular tortilla. Rumors of poor working conditions began circulating in early 2020 when, at the height of […]
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Social Security Backlogs Leave Unhoused Populations Vulnerable
or the past six months, Michelle Thomas, a youth case manager at The Night Ministry has been trying to get a new Social Security card for her twenty-two-year-old houseless client. After months of contacting different offices and scheduling an emergency visit to a Social Security Administration (SSA) office that was initially denied, Thomas’s client is […]
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Q&A: The COVID-19 Delta Variant
Dr. Alana Biggers, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor of medicine and internist at the University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital. Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Biggers earned a master’s in public health with a focus in chronic disease epidemiology from Tulane University, attended medical school at UIC, then completed a residency in the greater Milwaukee […]
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Best of Hegewisch 2021
Best Startup Best Local Activist Best Community Pushback he rest of Chicago seems light years away whenever I’m in Hegewisch, visiting my brother or crossing the state border while passing through to visit family in Hammond, Indiana. Living on the Southwest Side for ten years, I’ve grown accustomed to walking a few minutes to a […]
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Mutual Aid Projects May Soon Run up Against Bureaucratic Barriers
lthough the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 shutdown on Chicagoans are still unfolding, one thing has been clear to many from the start: the government wasn’t going to save them. In 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act distributed stimulus checks of $1,200, on average, to Americans to last from April to […]