By Hale Briner, age 12 On August 4, 41 people in Chicago were shot in from Saturday through Sunday morning, five fatally. The cause of the gun violence was mostly gang involved, according to the Chicago Police Department. There are many organizations trying to...
BY AMZAD ALI, age 12, and IndyKids staff Demonstrators held a sit-in at Chicago City Hall in support of the 12 hunger strikers fighting to save Dyett High School. September 2015. PHOTO: Bob Simpson/Flickr In 2013, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced that it would...
By HASSAN DOOSTDAR, age 10 9-year-old activist and student, Asean Johnson, speaks at a Chicago Teachers Union rally against school closures. PHOTO: Charles Miller Earlier this year, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system voted to close 49 elementary schools in the...
By GEORGIA REED-STAMM, age 9 PHOTO: Flickr/Chicago Teachers Union September 15 rally. PHOTO: Flickr/Chicago Teachers Union Children and parents march with teachers in Chicago on September 15. PHOTO: Flickr/Chicago Teachers Union Children returning to public schools in...
By INDYKIDS STAFF Photo: CHICAGO INDYMEDIA A group of 250 laid-off workers occupied the Republic Windows & Doors factory in Chicago in early December to protest a decision to shut down the factory without adequate warning. The workers were given three days’...
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