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Posted inEconomic Mobility

Cook County Medical Debt Help Comes Too Late

by Binghui Huang and Illinois Answers Project May 27, 2025May 30, 2025

This story was originally published by the Illinois Answers Project as part of their series Making it in Chicago: Detours and Dead Ends on the Path to Opportunity. he day before Christmas eve in 2023, Andrew Ciaccio was up all night trying to soothe his stomach pains.  When he woke, he could barely sit up. Something […]

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Posted inEn español

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