Officers Disrespected Englewood Residents Following Police Shooting, Activists Say
“You got police officers that I watched with my own eyes pull people toward them just to beat them,” said activist Joseph Williams.
“You got police officers that I watched with my own eyes pull people toward them just to beat them,” said activist Joseph Williams.
The winning proposal includes revitalizing a long-vacant office building and converting a brownfield into an urban farming campus.
Residents must now respond to the census by Sep. 30, but response rates in some parts of Chicago are less than half the national average.
Just under 55% of Chicagoans have responded to the census, compared to 62% nationally. In some areas, the response has been less than 30%.
“If this were a fire or flood or hurricane, buildings and whole communities will be evacuated,” says a leader in a group pressing the governor to take emergency action.
Illinois has witnessed the steepest decline in Black population of any state since 2010. White population has fallen in Illinois by 6%.
Nearly two-thirds of Illinois households have responded to the census. But the rates are much lower in Chicago’s immigrant communities.
“The church ain’t the church if you stay quiet,” said Pastor Chris Harris. “… You’ve got to come out of your four walls and get in the community.”
Groups unveiled a legislative agenda Thursday calling for translation services and an Asian American history curriculum in schools.
“We’re like sitting ducks,” said a North Side nursing home resident seeking more details about the COVID-19 outbreak there.