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Author: Kari Lydersen

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Chronicling the past, writing the future on Chicago’s West Side

March 14, 2016May 18, 2016 Kari Lydersen Chicago, garfield park, guyon hotel, West Side

“The now-decrepit Guyon Hotel at 4000 W. Washington Street is a staple of West Garfield Park’s landscape, with a rich

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Housing, Homelessness & Segregation NEWS 

Former SJNN Fellow at Univision explores displacement of Latinos

February 18, 2016July 28, 2016 Kari Lydersen

Logan Square, Pilsen and other Chicago neighborhoods home to many Latino residents are among the city’s most quickly gentrifying. Rents

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NEWS Policing & the Prison System 

Covering Police Reform in Chicago

February 15, 2016August 2, 2016 Kari Lydersen

Police accountability and violence is the “number one story” in Chicago, according to Steve Franklin, ethnic and community project manager

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Cook County Judge Jackie Portman talks about her unique style, second chances

January 8, 2016August 1, 2016 Kari Lydersen

SJNN Fellow Maya Dukmasova has spent many hours in Cook County bond court, where people charged with crimes shuffle in

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NEWS 

Young Fugitives performance probes a killing and ‘the stories that don’t get told’

September 22, 2015August 2, 2016 Kari Lydersen

By Kari Lydersen Deonta Mackey had a gun. That differentiates him from Michael Brown in Ferguson and various other Black

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NEWS 

Ondelee Perteet’s drive to survive

February 16, 2015August 2, 2016 Kari Lydersen

On September 5, 2009, 14-year-old Ondelee Perteet was shot in the face during a birthday party at his older sister’s West Side home. In a split second he went from being a cheerful energetic teenager to a quadriplegic, a bullet lodged in his spine.

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Mental Health & Criminal Justice NEWS 

Where’s Our psychiatrists?

November 18, 2014August 2, 2016 Kari Lydersen

SJNN Fellows Adrienne Hurst and Rachel White document the North River Consumer Council’s quest for answers about the lack of

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