Community areas of Chicago

have passes by and we finally look back at how things have develop. On page 4 in “Encountering God” by Eck Diana, she describes her community as an environment that is made up of pass generation, rivers and mountains. The rivers and mountains represent her borders, but within those borders there are invisible areas that have specific meaning towards her community. These locations may not have a specific name, but when you walk pass it; you a notices a change in the neighborhood. There is an emotion

The Primary Care Cliff is set to leave it’s biggest mark on Community Centers in October, that is when the funding for the Health Center Graduate Medical Education program runs out. The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) addresses the need for primary care doctors in rural and underprivileged areas. Physicians doing their residencies in a This is only one area of the ACA funding that was created to enhance primary care physicians in an already primary care shortage that

Gun Violence in Chicago The city of Chicago, Illinois is facing a crisis in regards to gun violence. This pervasive issue affects the city as whole, but ripples violently through Chicago’s neighborhoods with lower socioeconomic status. While this form of violence in Chicago has been a problem for decades, 2016 was a “devastatingly violent year” as 762 people were murdered in the city (Sweeney, Schmadeke, & Meisner, 2017, p. 1). The city of Chicago has a population of 2.7 million people, which is

prohibition effect proved everyone wrong. Police around the states especially in Chicago, which has one of the highest murder rates in the United States is finding it hard to combat the violence because of the low amount of officers, political interference or lack of persecution, and community resistance. Under hiring officers is the worst possible issue that is currently effecting the high amount of gun violence in Chicago. When there is a small amount of patrol officers with boots on the ground, being

RaSia Khepra In 2016, the homicide rates in Chicago were the highest in two decades. A teen activist named RaSia Khepra is working to try and help solve this problem. Rasia Khepra is standing up against gun violence in Chicago and all over the world. He and several of his friends started Project Orange Tree after the death of a close friend due to gang and gun violence in his area. Since then he has been giving interviews and speaking on gun violence and how it can be stopped. Before Life Even

Los Angeles and Chicago are two American cities that have a long history with gang violence. In the 1940’s the city of Los Angeles was experiencing a significant boom in the African American and Latino populations. During this time, there was also a massive influx of Caucasians into the Los Angeles area. The Caucasians wanted to keep African Americans and Latinos who they called ‘Zoot Suiters’ out of their neighborhoods, so they formed a white gang called the ‘Spook Hunters’. The formation of the

Majority of USA’s Chinatowns are going through gentrification, which leads to the loss of vibrant immigrant communities where people work, live, shop, and socialize. Many individuals say that Chinatown is losing its meaning of “Chinatown” because the percentages of Chinese inhabitants there are decreasing every year. Since there are many Chinatowns in USA, I had selected New York, Los Angeles, Chicago to use as examples of gentrification. There are 3 Chinatowns in New York State: Manhattan, Brooklyn, and

struggle and finding of identity and purpose. This is especially true when being presented the stories of a marginalized group. Majoritarian stories, while valuable, may distort and silence the experiences of minority communities, often resulting in unfair assumptions made towards said communities. Being presented with counter-stories not only allows people of various backgrounds to hear a response towards more wide-spread claims, but also prevents the majoritarian narrative from dominating the discourse

on the citizens and history of Chicago. With the growing recognition and notoriety of Chicago on a global scale, the desire for tourists to visit the public art instalments as well as flock to each of Chicago’s cultural neighborhoods has increased. Areas like Pilsen, Chinatown and Bridgeport are now seen as destinations for tourists to experience authentic microcosms of other cultures that make up the greater Chicago metropolitan area. For large metropolitan areas, the need to create revenue is always

in the 1920s, Black Wall Street, the name fittingly given to one of the most affluent all-Black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious Whites. This area was known for being one of the most successful and wealthiest black communities in the United States during the early 20th Century. Sadly, due to the area creating great wealth for the black community is was destroyed in a riot caused by the Ku Klux clan. The reason this quick introduction on “black