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Will Chicago follow Civic Federation recommendation and cut mental health services entirely in 2014?

Will Chicago follow Civic Federation recommendation and cut mental health services entirely in 2014?
I had never seen the Civic Federation report until last week, but there it was in black and white: a recommendation to shut down Chicago’s mental health and primary care centers, put out months before Mayor Rahm Emanuel ever suggested privatizing or shuttering clinics. It was a therapist at one of Chicago’s mental health clinics... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
May 16, 2012 at 11:38 am
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Photo essay: Mental health clinic closures - the faces of austerity

For most of the 75 people holding a sit-in outside of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office Monday, the fight against the closing of half of the city’s mental health centers is only the visible part of their battle. The other battle is inside. As person after person spoke Monday, they said they would not be able... Read more »
By YanaKunichoff,
May 1, 2012 at 12:21 pm
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Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic is ground zero in fight against cutbacks

Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic is ground zero in fight against cutbacks
On April 30, the Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic will be one of six mental health centers that shuts its doors. But until then, the clinic has become the epicenter in the fight against government cutbacks in Chicago, say organizers. A group of protesters with the Mental Health Movement and Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP)... Read more »
By YanaKunichoff,
April 16, 2012 at 7:33 pm
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Employee Christmas present from Chicago Department of Public Health: 208 layoffs

Employee Christmas present from Chicago Department of Public Health: 208 layoffs
It’s lousy to get laid off at Christmas time. But even lousier to hear about it through a cryptic message faxed to your office. That’s how many Chicago Department of Public Health employees learned last week that they were going to be laid off. A faxed table of employee layoffs they’d never heard of went... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
December 13, 2011 at 11:09 am
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Chicago's next budget and its health services

Chicago's next budget and its health services
The future of the City of Chicago’s health services network may come into focus during the city’s upcoming budget season. The Chicago Department of Public Health operates facilities for mental health patients and neighborhood medical clinics that offer a range of programming, from pregnancy testing to adult care. Labor organizations that represent the city’s health... Read more »
By Micah Maidenberg,
September 6, 2011 at 3:36 pm
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Games of chance day at Chicago's city hall

Games of chance day at Chicago's city hall
This morning’s theme at Chicago’s City Hall seemed to be games of chance. A few minutes into the 11 a.m. hour, a handful of aldermen were holed up in a council hearing room, listening to representatives of Northstar, the private entity chosen to run the Illinois lottery, describe their plans for the lotto in the... Read more »
By Micah Maidenberg,
August 31, 2011 at 3:29 pm
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Council talks about limiting coal plant pollution, again

Council talks about limiting coal plant pollution, again
The last couple of years have been difficult ones for the Clean Power Ordinance, legislation that would set new limits on the tiny particulate matter the Fisk and Crawford coal-fired plants, the last of their kind in Chicago, are allowed to emit and establish a cap on the amount of carbon dioxide both facilities send... Read more »
By Micah Maidenberg,
August 1, 2011 at 1:00 pm
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