Illinois Answers Project

Illinois Answers Project

The Illinois Answers Project is a nonpartisan news organization focused on investigative journalism and finding solutions in Illinois.

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  • 1 week ago | illinoisanswers.org | Binghui Huang

    COOK COUNTY — The day before Christmas eve in 2023, Andrew Ciaccio was up all night trying to soothe his stomach pains. When he woke, he could barely sit up. Something was wrong. “It was pretty intense,” he recalled. “I was vomiting and really sweating and really feverish and just really in rough shape. [I] couldn’t even put shoes on.”Panicked, his partner looked up the nearest hospital: Advocate Masonic Hospital. Once Ciaccio  got to the hospital, a new panic set in.

  • 1 week ago | illinoisanswers.org | Madison Hopkins |Meredith Newman

    CHICAGO — A single mother in Kenwood changed jobs in order to find child care – even though it meant possibly working fewer hours and less pay. A couple in Park Ridge has paid so much for care they haven’t been able to start a college fund for their toddler. A family in Lemont delayed buying a home and decided against having as many children as they once hoped for.

  • 1 week ago | illinoisanswers.org | Jim Daley

    CHICAGO — On a recent Tuesday, dozens of people lined the block waiting their turn at a food pantry that shares a building with the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago (INVC). The long line was a stark reminder of the connections between poverty and violence cited by researchers and advocates, and a major part of why INVC and similar organizations include workforce development in their programming.

  • 1 week ago | illinoisanswers.org | Laura Stewart

    CHICAGO — LaShon Minter Williams is waiting for a letter that could arrive any day now — one that may force her to leave the home her family has owned for generations. She can’t afford to pay off the mortgage on the West Side home all at once. But she shouldn’t have to. Twelve years ago, her grandmother, Louise Minter, was tricked into a reverse mortgage scheme on the premise of home repairs.

  • 1 week ago | illinoisanswers.org | Alex Nitkin

    CHICAGO — For most new parents, finding last-minute child care usually means an afternoon of frantic phone calls and around $100 dropped on a trusted babysitter. For Brian and Fiona Peterman, it means walking across their backyard.

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