
Esther Yoon-Ji Kang
Reporter at WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL)
Reporter @WBEZ, Chicago’s @NPR station. I cover race, class, work, housing, Asian American issues. Twitter noob. Email: ekang at wbez dot org
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1 month ago |
wbez.org | Esther Yoon-Ji Kang
WBEZ News Chicago Housing Authority has new team to tackle lead, mold and other issues The Chicago Housing Authority has a brand new Healthy Homes Division. The team will help address environmental issues like lead, mold and air quality for more than 30,000 public housing residents. WBEZ’s Esther Yoon-Ji Kang sat down with the group’s new leader, Elizabeth Poole, to discuss what this new department means for CHA.
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1 month ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Esther Yoon-Ji Kang
A new report out Tuesday tackles the yawning wealth gap between Black and white Chicagoans, laying out a set of potential solutions for bridging it, including increased homeownership, enhanced workforce and business development and universal financial literacy training. “The State of Black Chicago 2025: A Laddered Path to Wealth Building” focuses heavily on a key data point from a report by The New School’s Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy.
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2 months ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Esther Yoon-Ji Kang
Shaq Wilson is a 30-year-old father of two living on the West Side. He works for the Maersk shipping and logistics company and just bought a new car. “I feel like I’m in a good place,” he said. “I feel like the place that I’m in, I could grow, and that’s a wonderful thing.”But as a teenager about 14 years ago, he was in a more vulnerable spot.
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2 months ago |
wbez.org | Esther Yoon-Ji Kang
Shaq Wilson is a 30-year-old father of two living on Chicago’s West Side. He works for the Maersk shipping and logistics company and just bought a new car. “I feel like I’m in a good place,” he said. “I feel like the place that I’m in, I could grow, and that’s a wonderful thing.”But as a teenager about 14 years ago, he was in a more vulnerable spot.
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2 months ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Esther Yoon-Ji Kang
El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. | The place for coverage of Latino news and culture in Chicago. En Mad Mike’s Barber Shop, en el vecindario de La Villita en Chicago, Ismael Acuña Jaimez da los últimos retoques al cabello de un cliente mientras una pantalla de televisión reproduce “Ford vs. Ferrari” doblada al español. Acuña Jaimez ha dirigido esta barbería con sus padres durante unos 12 años en este vecindario predominantemente mexicano e inmigrante.
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