Medill Reports: Chicago
Story by: Abby Sewell
Video production: Jessica Krinke
It’s dusk on West Lawrence Avenue, and Wafeeqa Saadeh is preparing to close up shop for the night.
Saadeh, a Palestinian immigrant who settled in the neighborhood in 1978, runs the El-Jeeb Hijab and Gifts with a handful of relatives, including her sister, niece and nephew. Her small, family-owned store in Albany Park is crowded with embroidered robes and head scarves imported from Jordan. It’s one of a handful of spots in Chicago that specialize in Muslim women’s clothing. The family has also owned a grocery store in the neighborhood for 25 years.
Two storefronts down, behind an unobtrusive façade bearing the legend “Admiral Theatre,” in a high-ceilinged lobby done up in blue and gold, cashiers are setting up for the night. Scantily clad Egyptian sirens watch them from the paintings on the walls. In a little while, tourists, businessmen, sailors and college boys heading out for a night on the town will begin lining up for another show at Chicago’s oldest strip club.
Chicago's changing face of HIV
(Please view the companion video by Camille on Medill Reports!)
Cited in: Chicago Now
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| Yvette Williams, courtesy her facebook page. |
Williams said that feeling sorry for herself was never an option and her diagnosis was an opportunity to learn. "It's not a death sentence. You can live with it or die from it. You only stop living when you choose to." The 42-year-old ministry assistant embraces a healthy lifestyle with exercise and a well-balanced diet.
Williams represents the changing face of HIV. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, almost 2,500 black women in Illinois are living with the virus – and the numbers continue to climb as the leading cause of death for African-American women between the ages of 25 and 34.
Windy City Horrors
For my second quarter interactive class, my main project was designing a website based on a long, in-depth profile. I chose the culture in Chicago around horror movies and horror-themed social events and clubs. The website doesn't quite exist anymore since it was designed around the URL's of the class's website (that disappears at the end of every semester) so I have to rebuild it someday. However, I don't want all the reporting and work to go to waste so here's the parts of it I can share here.
Giving voice to the silent 'T' in LGBT
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| Christina Kahrl is the Transgender liaison for Center on Halsted. She is a sports writer and a transgender woman. |
Republished in: The Primrose
Transgender individuals still face many hurdles, even within the LGBT world. And the photo identification policy at northwest suburban Hunters Nightclub has come to represent some of them.
Hunters is a popular gay bar in an unincorporated area near Elk Grove Village that has come under criticism recently for tightened ID policies that some in the transgender community say is discriminatory.
Claiming that their liquor license was in danger, the establishment no longer admits patrons who don’t look enough like the photo on their IDs. The policy has come to be known as the “Two Faces, Two ID’s” rule and makes it necessary for gender variant people to obtain a second valid photo ID.
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