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Chicago Reporter’S 15Th Anniversary in 1987 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 Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation, McCormick Foundation, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Challenge Fund for Journalism, Woods Fund of Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, The Field Foundation of Illinois, One Economy Corporation, Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, Chicago Tribune Foundation, The Fund for Investigative Journalism, and by subscriptions and individual contributions. 332 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 500 Chicago, Illinois 60604 (312) 427-4830 Fax: (312) 427-6130 [email protected] The Rev. Paul Sherry, executive director of the Community Renewal Society, Chicago Mayor Harold www.chicagoreporter.com Washington, Editor and Publisher Roy Larson, former Editor Lillian Calhoun and Founder John A. McDermott celebrate The Chicago Reporter’s 15th anniversary in 1987. Chicago Reporter file photo. FOUNDER John A. McDermott INTERIM PUBLISHER Laura S. Washington In perspective Departments INTERIM EDITOR Rui Kaneya Publisher’s Note ................... 3 6 Swallowed by the system PRESENTATION EDITOR Former chief public defender reflects on the From the archives................30 Christine Wachter clogged criminal courts. Parting Shot.......................... 36 REPORTERS Angela Caputo 8 Immigrants’ voice COVER ILLUSTRATION BY DENNIS NISHI María Inés Zamudio Gutiérrez brings Chicago to the forefront of WEB EDITOR the immigration debate. Melanie Coffee Celebrating 40 years BLOGGER/REPORTERS 11 Getting re-organized Megan Cottrell The Chicago Reporter is Yana Kunichoff Activist pushes to renew ‘prosperity’ to the celebrating its 40th anniversary Alden K. Loury average American worker. this year. The Reporter will be COPY EDITOR hosting several social events James Tehrani 14 Legal shelter and forums to commemorate PHOTOGRAPHY FELLOWS Housing lawyer takes up the mantle for the occasion. Make sure to Jonathan Gibby tenants’ rights. subscribe to our weekly e-blast Lucio Villa at www.chicagoreporter.com to INTERNS 18 Then and now ensure that you’re up-to-date on Erin Hale Safiya Merchant Our city has undergone many changes in all the ways we’re celebrating. Allison James Nicole NeSmith the past four decades. But how far have we EDITORS & PUBLISHERS EMERITI come in raising wages and cutting poverty? Kimbriell Kelly Alden K. Loury Got a news tip? Alysia Tate Publishers emeriti Laura S. Washington The Chicago Reporter brings 19 Remembering John McDermott Roy Larson injustice to the forefront in the THE REPORTER READERS BUREAU 20 A look at Larson’s legacy areas of criminal justice, labor, Hiranmayi Bhatt Terri Johnson 22 Back home again housing, health, immigration and Barbara Bolsen Keith Kelleher government. If you have a tip, Kristen Cox David Mussatt Matthew Nicol Turner-Lee 24 At the helm post-9/11 call (312) 427-4830 ext. 4040 Hendrickson Bob Yovovich 26 A 21st century Reporter or send an email to editor@ Bob Honesty chicagoreporter.com. ISSN 0300-6921. 28 A ‘muckraker’ bids adieu © 2013 Community Renewal Society. 2 THE CHICAGO REPORTER | January/February 2013 PUBLISHER’S NOTE Reporter News Decades of dedication In 1972, veteran civil rights will launch shortly, ramp- the Reporter has covered a activist John McDermott ing up our capacity to report vast array of vital topics that imagined a monthly publica- through blogs, social media, intersect with race and pov- tion that would investigate video and more. erty: education, politics and and analyze racial issues. Mc- Fundamentally, it always government, legal affairs, Dermott and co-editor Lillian comes back to race. Mc- health care, corporate gover- Calhoun met to plot the first Dermott was hopeful about nance, the economy, commu- issue, Calhoun recalled years America’s most intractable nity violence, and more. later. “To save money, we de- challenge. So hopeful, I sus- The Reporter is much cided on a newsletter, printed pect, that he imagined that more than a publication. It in good, clean Helvetica,” she someday, there would be no is a community. Without said. “We chose extra-thin need for the Reporter. that community, we would paper for inexpensive post- He probably also never not thrive and survive to- age. Folded to letter size, it imagined that the nation’s day. Our deep gratitude goes could fit in a busy executive’s first black president would to the Community Renewal pocket or purse.” hail from Hyde Park, just Society. When McDermott That little newsletter be- Laura S. Washington, blocks away from McDer- asked CRS Executive Director came The Chicago Reporter. Interim Publisher mott’s own home. He could Don Benedict to help launch “The Reporter will try to Opinions expressed by the not have anticipated the vast a hard-hitting investigative be dispassionate, accurate and interim publisher are her own. reach and influence of the In- publication that would speak constructive in its approach,” ternet. Or the lasting scourge truth to power, Benedict nev- McDermott wrote in its July We welcome letters. Send them of 9/11. Or that the United er flinched. CRS has been the 1972 inaugural issue. It would to [email protected] States will turn minority Reporter’s home ever since. be aimed at the city’s influ- or 332 S. Michigan Ave., Suite majority in 2042, as the U.S. We are forever indebted entials and “seek to enlighten 500, Chicago, IL, 60604. Please Census Bureau projects. to the unstinting support of readers, not browbeat them.” include name, address and a day- In 40 years, Chicago and foundations, corporations, And, he added, “it will focus time phone number. Letters may the nation have grappled with individual donors, policy- on the terrain where black be edited for space and clarity. exponential change. Through makers, activists and our and white intersect.” it all, the Reporter has moni- readers. And we pay special The Reporter’s staff soon ers, editors and interns have tored and analyzed pivotal tribute to the Reporter’s realized that the challenges toiled at the Reporter, and questions of race and poverty heart and soul: its singularly of race and poverty are deeply the magazine has won dozens with integrity and excellence. talented staff who have toiled intertwined. Since 1972, black of national and local journal- Many of our core beats re- tirelessly, producing the fin- and white has turned to mul- ism awards. Now bimonthly, main. In this issue, our first- est journalism anywhere. tiple hues as Latinos, Asians, it reaches hundreds of thou- rate reporting staff chronicles In 2013, there are new Native Americans, Muslims, sands of readers, viewers and the history of four key areas: questions and complexities gays and lesbians, and myriad listeners through partner- criminal justice, immigration, to confront. Race still mat- other groups emerged on the ships with other media orga- labor and housing. ters. The Chicago Reporter will Reporter’s terrain. nizations and a robust Web But social justice knows no always be there to tell you More than 700 report- network. Our new website boundaries. During 40 years, how—and why. n also a Chicago Sun-Times columnist and The Reporter has also received Reporter News political analyst for ABC 7-Chicago. a $5,000 grant from the Chicago Kimbriell Kelly, publisher of The Managing Editor Rui Kaneya has Community Trust’s Community Chicago Reporter, has left the publica- been named interim editor, and he News Matters initiative. The program tion after eight years to join the investi- will manage day-to-day operations. supports 14 projects reporting on gative team at The Washington Post. Kaneya, who came to the Reporter in issues affecting the city’s South and “I’m very sad to leave the Reporter, 1997 as a research assistant, was a West sides. The Reporter’s work will where I started at the ground floor as recipient of the Robert R. McCormick assess the effectiveness of the city’s a [McCormick Tribune] fellow and Tribune Minority Fellowship in Urban public housing programs. worked my way all the way up to the Journalism in 1998. As it continues its anniversary top. So it’s a little bittersweet,” she said. The Open Society Foundations in commemoration, the Reporter has Kelly began her new job at the New York City has approved a two- convened a 40th Anniversary Host Post’s D.C. office in mid-November. year, $300,000 grant to the Reporter, Committee, which will plan and sup- Laura S. Washington has returned one of the largest grants in the publica- port upcoming celebrations. Bill Kurtis, to the Reporter to serve as interim tion’s 40-year history. The grant will the longtime Chicago TV anchor, and publisher. Washington, a former editor support the Reporter’s Digital Plan. The Donna LaPietra, the civic leader and and publisher at the Reporter, will over- plan’s centerpiece is a newly config- executive producer of Kurtis Produc- see the publication and lead the search ured website that will be unveiled in tions, have graciously agreed to serve for Kelly’s replacement. Washington is early 2013. as the committee’s honorary co-chairs. WWW.CHICAGOREPORTER.COM | THE CHICAGO REPORTER 3 LOOKING BACK 40 years in perspective 4 THE CHICAGO REPORTER | January/February 2013 o celebrate four decades of muckraking on issues of race and poverty, we kick off this 40th anniversary edition with a focus on four of The Chicago Reporter’s key beats— Tcriminal justice, immigration, labor and housing. The history behind each issue has had its own trajectory since the Reporter’s founding in 1972. To illustrate that, we sat down with prominent figures whose activism has made its mark in their respective fields and asked them to reflect on their experiences. We are confident these retrospective articles provide a unique insight into what it’s been like to work “in the trenches” of the nation’s toughest social justice issues.
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