Mayor Lightfoot is trying to rejuvenate Chicago’s mental health care system. But is it enough?
By Maura Turcotte Medill Reports It began with a 15-year-old boy shooting a 7-year-old girl on Halloween. Then, over the course of a month, seven more residents of Chicago’s Little Village were hit by gunfire. One incident proved fatal — a 32-year-old nurse walking home from his shift, shot by an unknown assailant. The string […]
Little Village sprouts food, health and community in gardens
By Maura Turcotte Medill Reports As a student at Little Village Lawndale High School, Sergio Ruiz, 18, rarely had the option of fresh, healthy food. So much so that students would crack jokes about the junk food and the school’s notorious neighbor, Cook County Jail. “They would always compare it to the jail food,” Ruiz […]
