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Hamilton House creates a new kind of family in Chicago’s South Shore community

September 17, 2018October 23, 2019 marthabayne foster care, Gerald Hamilton, South Shore

Since the mid-1970s, Gerald Hamilton, a retired homicide detective, has been a foster parent for over 100 kids and teenagers of different ethnicities and backgrounds, most of them young men. Some people assume that foster parents are in it for the money or don’t know how to deal with the often troubling behavior of the children they take in. Hamilton challenges these misconceptions by intentionally seeking out kids who need more support and treating them no differently than his biological children.

Environment Professional Partnerships

Can technology end environmental injustice? SJNN Fellow David Unger explores the “Array of Things”

January 26, 2018October 23, 2019 marthabayne Argonne National Laboratory, Array of Things, David J. Unger

SJNN Fellow David Unger writes for South Side Weekly about the Array of Things, a
partnership between the government, the city and Chicago universities.

Environment Professional Partnerships

In Chicago and Iowa, contrasting tales of building a clean energy economy

August 15, 2017October 23, 2019 marthabayne Chicago, clean energy, deindustrializtion, Green technologies, Iowa, Maytag, Newton, South Works

Chicago’s Southeast Side and Newton, Iowa both used to house thriving industries, keeping residents with a solid toe in the middle class through well-paid and steady factory work.