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Lower standards: a Chicago reporter analysis shows that the quality of black seniors' nursing home care is drastically behind that of white seniors.	Cover story	Jul 1, 2009	3681
Big money, few results: Illinois has spent millions to fight HIV and AIDS, but African Americans still struggle to receive the treatment they need.	Cover story	Jan 1, 2009	3723
Struggling in the suburbs: HIV's rapid rise presents distinct challenges for providers, community.		Jan 1, 2009	2267
Squabbles delay bills to help kids.		Sep 1, 2008	1027
Bringing families together: a county jail in Pittsburgh works to alleviate trauma for children.		Sep 1, 2008	1521
Car sick: organizations work to find transit alternatives for the entire region to ease congestion, spending.		May 1, 2008	2727
To serve and protect? Some say fatal shootings could have been prevented if the Chicago Police Department kept better watch over its officers.	Cover story	Nov 1, 2007	3751
Broken workers broken promises: many undocumented Latino immigrants injured on the job qualify for workers' compensation benefits, but employers often make them hard to access.	Cover story	Jul 1, 2007	3472
Freedom's fall: family, lawsuit help injured worker rebuild his life after accident.		Jul 1, 2007	835
Olympics in 2016: all that glitters ...		May 1, 2007	263
Uncounted and unseen: tens of thousands of children have parents in prison. Many people call these children 'crime's invisible victims.' Institutions trying to help are often disconnected from these families and each other.	Cover story	Mar 1, 2007	4207
Keeping connected: church-based agency helps female inmates maintain ties with families.		Mar 1, 2007	1310
Adjusting to home: the effects of a mother's incarceration last well beyond her release date.		Mar 1, 2007	1556
MLK Day: a working holiday?		Jan 1, 2007	257
Never-ending cycle: Illinois' reliance on property taxes as the major source of school funding has major consequences for communities throughout the state.		Nov 1, 2006	1521
Cash, no cure all growing needs strain flush district.		Nov 1, 2006	454
Bells and whistles: money might not guarantee academic success, but it can certainly buy some of the things that may help students get there.		Nov 1, 2006	680
A recipe for success: even while experiencing demographic changes, Edison Primary School has registered big test score gains without a lot of money.		Nov 1, 2006	717
The fight about funding: for many, school funding reform boils down to one question: does more money equal better scores?		Nov 1, 2006	1414
Passing the torch: others have picked up where the Civil Rights Movement left off, but where have the black voices gone?		Jul 1, 2006	2217
Tracing history: taking cues from civil rights leaders, the immigration and disability rights movements are making great strides.		Jul 1, 2006	1426
Resisting the dream: while violence has all but ended, barriers to racial integration, like discrimination, stereotypes and intolerance, remain.		May 1, 2006	2308
Block buster: the arrival of one block's first black family stirs tensions in one of the Southwest Side's few remaining white neighborhoods.		May 1, 2006	948
Carbon copies: today's Chicago resembles the deeply segregated city Martin Luther King Jr. encountered 40 years ago.		Mar 1, 2006	1863
Marching on: if Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he'd find many black Chicagoans living in conditions similar to those he witnessed here 40 years ago.		Jan 1, 2006	1805