Léalo en español ittle Village residents are sharing what they experienced when the April 11 demolition of a smokestack at the former Crawford coal plant at 35th and Pulaski released a thick cloud of dust—which the city and U.S. EPA concluded caused “no apparent health risks”—over their neighborhood. This was a South Side Weekly collaboration […]
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What’s Happening in the Wards? Aldermanic Response to COVID-19
Léalo en español City Council meetings have moved online; ward offices are (generally) closed. The April 24 vote to grant Mayor Lightfoot emergency spending powers sparked bitter debate. So what exactly are South Side aldermen up to right now? How are they responding to the COVID-19 crisis in their wards? We did a little research. […]
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Op-Ed: A Just Cause for Chicago Tenants
Léalo en español hicago law currently allows landlords to evict any month-to-month tenant they want for any reason they want, as long as they give the tenant thirty days’ notice. According to an analysis by the Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing, every year from 2010 to 2017, one in every twenty-five Chicago renters faced eviction. […]
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Op-Ed: Small neighborhood businesses need you now more than ever
n April 16, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that the $350 billion in forgivable, low-interest loans made available through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) had been exhausted in just two weeks. From the beginning, the federal program was marred by problems, from some banks’ refusal to participate to special guidelines favoring mid-sized and large […]
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Illinois expande el programa de estampillas de alimentos durante COVID-19
Originally published on April 23, 2020, in English Traducido por Gisela Orozco n abril, Illinois aumentó al máximo la asignación mensual destinada para los beneficiarios del Programa Asistencial de Nutrición Suplementaria (SNAP por sus siglas en inglés) y comenzó a proporcionar estampillas de alimentos a los hogares con niños. El estado también comenzó a procesar […]
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Illinois Temporarily Expands Food Stamps During COVID-19
Léalo en español n April, Illinois raised the monthly allotment for SNAP recipients to the maximum amount, began providing food stamps to households with children, started screening applicants regardless of social security, and revised the guidelines for able-bodied single adults. These changes were made possible by federal COVID-19 legislation known as the Families First Coronavirus […]
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El riesgo está en el aire
Originally published on April 14, 2020, in English Traducido por Gisela Orozco nmortalizadas en “The Jungle”, una novela de Upton Sinclair publicada en 1906, las fábricas de carne que convirtieron a Chicago en “el carnicero de cerdo para el mundo”, también le dieron nombre a el barrio de Las Empacadoras. Y aunque dejaron la ciudad […]
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Remedios caseros: La curación tradicional significa plantas, rezos y manos para sanar
Originally published on April 14, 2020, in English Traducido por Gisela Orozco as prácticas de curación tradicional mexicana son medicina de supervivencia. Los primeros migrantes mexicanos que llegaron al área de Chicago sobrevivieron la vida en los vagones de carga durante inviernos duros con remedios caseros como tés, masajes y ungüentos. En ese entonces, muchas […]
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¿Sacrificios esenciales?
Originally published on April 13, 2020, in English Traducido por Gisela Orozco ás de 40 empleados de Amazon en Chicago que estaban supuestos a trabajar la primera semana de abril, decidieron no presentarse. Esto al enterarse de al menos cuatro casos de COVID-19 en los centros de distribución de Chicago y el suburbio de Skokie. […]
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Not Getting No Treatment
t the time of publication, Cook County Jail reports that three detainees have died from COVID-19: Jeffrey Pendleton, Leslie Pieroni, and Nicholas Lee were exposed to the novel coronavirus, along with at least 306 other detainees who have tested positive for the virus. This number is likely a low estimate; due to the conditions in […]