Andrea Clinton
July 6, 2016
Challenge
Nearly three-fourths of the men and women in Cook County Jail are held accused, but not convicted, of non-violent crimes. Many could be safely released before trial, but they remain in detention because they cannot afford to post bond. The ...
July 6, 2016
Challenge
For many low-income Chicagoans, education and training is the path to a better life. But by the middle part of the last decade, the City’s community colleges had lost a step. Enrollment had fallen from 200,000 to 115,000 in less ...
July 6, 2014
ChallengeThe recession that began in 2008 devastated tourism everywhere. But where other cities began to see their numbers move upward as the economy rebounded, Chicago’s numbers had stagnated. What had been 46 million visitors to Chicago in 2007 had fallen ...