SPOTLIGHTHere/Still/NowPoverty runs rampant on Chicago’s West Side, and yet its residents are largely ignored by the media—as well as those around them. A series that looks closely at the people that make up this community rather than considering them as a whole.Read More
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Here/Still/Now
Poverty runs rampant on Chicago’s West Side, and yet its residents are largely ignored by the media—as well as those around them. A series that looks closely at the people that make up this community rather than considering them as a whole.
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