Mina Bloom
Investigative Reporter at Block Club Chicago
Investigative reporter for @BlockClubCHI. Previously covered Logan Square, Humboldt & Avondale. Tips: [email protected]; (847) 370-9735. RTs ≠ endorsements.
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3 weeks ago |
chalkbeat.org | Reema Amin |Mina Bloom |Kae Petrin
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. This story was reported and published in collaboration with Block Club Chicago. Sign up for their newsletters here. A few years ago, Nash Elementary was thrown into disarray when dozens of English language learners — largely migrant kids from South and Central America — began enrolling at the West Side school. Teachers had to scramble to find ways to help the new arrivals.
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1 month ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Mina Bloom
Content warning: This story contains descriptions of domestic violence and abuse. If you or someone you know needs help, contact the Illinois Domestic Violence Hotline at 877-863-6338. CHICAGO — Born exactly a year apart, sisters DeMya and DeMarie’ Williams were inseparable. Even though they had their own bedrooms as teenagers, they chose to stay in a room together, binge watching TV shows, listening to music and sharing their innermost thoughts. “I think we were soulmates,” DeMya Williams said.
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Mar 19, 2025 |
blockclubchicago.org | Mina Bloom
HERMOSA — Thirteen-year-old Bakary Demble can’t believe the Hermosa Neighborhood Organization might have to shut its doors for good, eliminating programs that he relies on every week. “If they do close, then I won’t have anything to do after school,” said Bakary, a seventh-grader at nearby Marine Leadership Academy.
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Feb 11, 2025 |
blockclubchicago.org | Mina Bloom |Alex Hernandez
CHICAGO — Yuritzi left her home in Michoacán, Mexico, three years ago. Planning to expand her family, she worried about sending her children to struggling schools in her Mexican hometown, where teachers were leaving in droves and kids couldn’t play outside because of gunfire, she said. Not long after arriving in Chicago, Yuritzi and her husband had a baby, their third child. And for a while, she said, the city felt safer and more secure than their home country — just what they hoped for.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
illinoisanswers.org | Mina Bloom
By the time the city sued her, absentee owner Suzie B. Wilson had let hundreds of properties on Chicago’s South and West sides become so infested with rats and filled with trash and weeds that she owed more than $15 million in fines. Now, as a result of that case, a Chicago real estate company is selling off more than 800 properties in the South and West side neighborhoods, the largest mass land sale in the city in years.
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