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Jobopoly the City Spent Nearly $1 Billion to Redevelop the Loop, and Still Chicago Residents Lost out on Jobs VOLUME 40 NUMBER 1 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 $5 Jobopoly The city spent nearly $1 billion to redevelop the Loop, and still Chicago residents lost out on jobs. page 8 ALSO INSIDE: The truth about minority voting. page 4 Brutal unemployment rates: 33 percent. Guess who? page 5 CHICAGOREPORTER.COM INSIDE January/February Founded in 1972, the Reporter is an investigative bimonthly that identifies, analyzes and reports on the social, eco- nomic and political issues of metropolitan Chicago with a focus on race and poverty. It is supported by grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, McCormick Foundation, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Challenge Fund for Journalism, Woods Fund of Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, Chicago Tribune Foundation, The Fund for Investigative Journalism, Inc., and by subscriptions and individual contributions. 332 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 500 Chicago, Illinois 60604 (312) 427-4830 Fax: (312) 427-6130 The number of jobs in the city is up, slightly. [email protected] But many Chicagoans continue to lose out and wonder if the city’s next mayor will use public www.chicagoreporter.com money to create more jobs. Photos by Joe Gallo. FOUNDER John A. McDermott PUBLISHER On the cover Alden K. Loury EDITOR 8 Loopholes Kimbriell Kelly Nearly $1 billion has been spent in MANAGING EDITOR the name of reversing blight in the Rui Kaneya Loop. But Chicagoans are still losing Departments their jobs. PRESENTATION EDITOR Editor’s Note/News........... 3 Christine Wachter 12 What did the Spinoffs................................ 4 REPORTERS candidates say? Angela Caputo Q&A...................................... 6 Jeff Kelly Lowenstein Mayoral candiates respond to a variety of issues from jobs to how to Parting Shot....................... 20 BLOGGER/REPORTER spend public money. Megan Cottrell COVER ILLUSTRATION BY DENNIS NISHI COPY EDITOR 14 Payton’s displace James Tehrani One woman’s journey to put her In the next issue INTERNS education to work. In its March/April issue, The Chicago Louis McGill Reporter will examine city contracts Nick Moroni 14 ‘That one job’ made during much of the tenure of EDITORS & PUBLISHERS EMERITI The struggle to get a job with skills outgoing Mayor Richard M. Daley, Alysia Tate suited for a vanishing industry. paying particular attention to the Laura S. Washington experience of minority- and women- Roy Larson 15 Call waiting owned businesses. THE REPORTER READERS BUREAU With 21 years of experience, she can’t Hiranmayi Bhatt get a call back. Kristen Cox Got a news tip? Matthew Hendrickson 15 ‘Everything’s dry’ Bob Honesty The Chicago Reporter brings injustice Terri Johnson Trying to stay a step ahead in a volatile to the forefront in the areas of job market, but falling behind. David Mussatt criminal justice, labor, housing, health, Bob Yovovich immigration and government. If you 17 Creating new jobs Published by the Community Renewal Society have a tip, call (312) 427-4830 x4040 Rev. Calvin S. Morris, executive director Residents rally together to secure jobs or e-mail [email protected]. ISSN 0300-6921. for their community. Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. 2 THE CHICAGO REPORTER | January/February 2011 EDITOR’S NOTE Reporter News Letter to A city not working the Editor The next mayor of Chicago the company’s history, wages I am a former resident of is going to have a big burden certainly won’t be top-notch. Cabrini-Green and I lived on his or her shoulders trying But, still, I’m certain there there from my birth in Au- to ensure that “the city that were many people wiping gust 1969 until March 1983. works” really works. the sweat from their brow Throughout the years, In this issue’s cover story, and looking at the plan as when I heard about Girl X, “Loopholes,” Reporter Angela an opportunity to finally get Dantrell Davis, Curtis Coo- Caputo gives us a glimpse of back into the job market, get per and the shop owner who the city’s job market. In recent health insurance, buy fresh was recently gunned down years, this story has been told produce—something many on Oak Street, my heart in Chicago from the lens of of us take for granted–and broke in two. I try not to ro- the number of people who are bust down boarded-up store- manticize Cabrini because unemployed. We all cringed fronts to make way for other when I lived there, I saw up when the unemployment rate economic development that close and personal the lives hit double digits last year. But Kimbriell Kelly, Editor would surely be spurred by that were taken and affected Caputo takes a different look. Opinions expressed by the the big-box development. by senseless violence. But I Her sobering report focuses editor are her own. But the good news was also saw programs that were on the number of jobs avail- short-lived. The store was geared toward helping resi- able in the city—particularly We welcome letters. Send them going up in the Lakeview dents. I saw my mother, who held by Chicagoans—and to [email protected] neighborhood. Of all the volunteered at St. Mathews compares that number with or 332 S. Michigan Ave., Suite communities that need eco- Head Start, being referred the cost the city has spent on 500, Chicago, IL, 60604. Please nomic development, jobs and by the head of the program economic development in the include name, address and a day- a grocer, Lakeview isn’t the to the principal of Richard Loop through Tax Increment time phone number. Letters may first one that comes to mind. E. Byrd Elementary School. Financing Districts. be edited for space and clarity. People on the South Side She then went down to the Caputo’s basic question: need jobs. They need eco- Board of Education, where “Did Chicagoans get their unemployment in the nation, nomic development. Under she worked for 37 years, en- money’s worth?” If you live and Illinois has horrific un- the current administration, abling us to eventually move south of 43rd Street, the an- employment numbers when South Siders didn’t reap the out of Cabrini. swer is: “No way.” it comes to young black men, full benefit of the nearly $1 Each time that I speak Residents in these areas— as noted in a story on page 5. billion the city spent to make with people, I try to convey especially those who are And now Caputo’s report has the Loop fancy. the message of hope. As a black and living on the South confirmed what many have The wedge between dis- resident of Cabrini, I never Side—are the ones suffering long suspected—that Chica- advantaged communities and felt hopeless. I always looked from the loss of most down- goans who need the Loop jobs advantaged ones appears to at Cabrini as a stepping town jobs. The city has spent the most aren’t getting them be widening when it comes stone, as I know thousands nearly a billion dollars to or able to hang onto them. to economic development. If of others have. make the Loop look good. But On the heels of these Chicago is truly a world-class Long after the last brick have we become a world-class abysmal statistics, I heard the city, leaders must figure out is pummeled into a million city at the expense of these news that Wal-Mart Stores how everyone can benefit. pieces, Cabrini will live on in residents? Chicago neighbor- Inc. was going to build a new Can the next mayor get the my heart. hoods have the worst chronic store in the city. Based on city that works working? n —Doreen Ambrose-Van Lee College Center on Media, Crime The Reporter is a partner in the We Reporter News and Justice for original investigative Are Not Alone campaign, an effort The Chicago Reporter has passed the reporting on gun violence. The Reporter of black and Latino news outlets and halfway point. From Jan. 1 through Nov. is among seven Midwest news outlets community organizations to docu- 17, the Reporter generated $41,618.45 to receive the grants. ment efforts to stem the flow of youth toward its $75,000 challenge grant The Fund for Investigative Journal- violence in Chicago’s African-American goal as part of the Challenge Fund for ism has awarded the Reporter a $3,000 and Latino neighborhoods. For more in- Journalism VI, an effort of the Ford, grant for an investigative project on formation visit www.chicagoistheworld. McCormick and Ethics and Excellence government contracts. Last year, the Re- org/blogs/ethnic-media-project. in Journalism foundations. Any revenue porter was awarded one of these grants, The Reporter will publicly release from new sources or any increased which helped the magazine produce its January/February 2011 issue from revenue from existing donors and sub- “Seventeen.” The investigation, featured 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27, at scribers will be matched by the founda- in the September/October 2010 issue, M Lounge, 1520 S. Wabash Ave. in tions. The deadline is Nov. 30, 2011. showed that thousands of Cook County Chicago. Join us to meet Reporter staff The Reporter has been awarded teens are being sentenced to adult time and supporters; enjoy free appetizers a $5,000 grant from the John Jay in prison mostly for nonviolent offenses. and compete for raffle prizes. WWW.CHICAGOREPORTER.COM | THE CHICAGO REPORTER 3 SPINOFFS Digging Deeper City litigation racks up fees No easy votes The news: Chicago is expected to face its largest budget deficit ever from community with a shortfall of more than $650 million.
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