Community areas of Chicago

crime in Chicago. According to Grabinsky & Reeves, “Chicago is one of the most segregated major metropolitan areas” (Grabinsky & Reeves, 2015). Chicago’s isolation index and dissimilarity index illustrates “the extent to which minority members are exposed only to one another” (Massey & Denton, 2018, p. 288). Dissimilarity index is commonly used to measure segregation in neighborhoods. According to Brown University, the index of dissimilarity in Chicago shows highly segregated communities. Additionally

candidate-for-accreditation-status to The Chicago School, with accreditation first awarded in 1984. The Clinical Psy.D. Department in Chicago was awarded Provisional Accreditation by APA in 1987, and Full Accreditation in 1992, a status that it retains. During the summer of 1979, the school became an affiliate member of the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology (NCSPP). In 1980, the school’s status was raised to associate membership; in 1985, The Chicago School was made a Full Member

affordable for the people living in these areas. Food deserts affect many people across the United States, especially those that are on the lower end of the social economic spectrum and live in rural areas. Many of these low-income families do not have the means to get to the supermarket and get the right products they need so they settle for lower quality but more cost efficient foods. A great example for a food desert would be the great city of Chicago who is ranked in the top two worst food deserts

public health system in the community and how does the LPHS provide the ten essential public health services to the community. The National Public Health Performance Standards is the assessment instrument for the local public health system (NACCHO, 2016). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Office of State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support are providing funds for LPHSA. The LPHSA sub-committee members are Chicago Public Health Department staff, Chicago governing entity, other governmental

After the deadly shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonalds occurred on October 20, 2015 in Chicago, IL, the police department was in question of its police brutality, biased ways and its inequality when approaching people that live in low income areas, especially those of color. Laquan McDonalds was shot 16 times and killed by officer Jason Van Dyke that night. The department tried to cover up the whole scene as well as the facts of what had happened that night. It was said that Laquan McDonald was

with a Chicago drug kingpin nick named J.T. During his time spent with this kingpin, Venkatesh explores the troubled projects of Chicago such as the Robert Taylor complex and begins to learn the inner operations of the kingpins business. He learned that J.T ran the central operations of these miniature complexes and ran his illicit business like a legitimate corporation with an established hierarchy. He also learned that these apartment complexes were often united through the community being so

Contributions of the Chicago School of Sociology In this essay I will describe and evaluate the contributions, made by the Chicago School of Sociology, which refers to a group of sociologists from the University of Chicago, who produced the first significant body of work in the area of urban sociology, in the first half of this century. The members include such sociologists as Robert Park, Ernest Burgess and Louis Wirth, whose work has contributed hugely to sociology and is recognized widely

In recent years and over the course of the past fifty year history dating back to the civil rights movement of the 1960’s, the city of Chicago has been a center stage for violence, protest, racial clash, and inevitably segregation. Since the days that Martin Luther King Jr. led marches in some of Chicago’s most historic moments, the city’s sizable black population has hardly witnessed an upturn in their quest for equality. In fact, many studies have identified a pattern of poverty, violence, bias

Blackness by producing counter-geographies in new and existing areas, demonstrating their sociospatial agency as well as the linkages to space and place that reflect their “a-where-ness” as the geographical other.

The community that I would like to bring my focus upon would be the West Garfield Community and the poverty that goes on within that community. The cause of the gang relate homicide violence within that community would be the lack of resources, joblessness, poverty, and the destruction of the black families. The violence that goes on inside that community that hinders the community from growing and I would say the funding for different programs will do some justice. However, West Garfield is a predominately