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We are replacing our usual calendar with virtual events and recommendations from StreetWise vendors, readers and staff to keep you entertained at home!

What will happen with COVID-19 & future sporting events?

From the Streets

LGBTQ people are three times more likely than the general population to be put in jail. The LGBTQ Freedom Fund posts bail for incarcerated people, keeping them out of jail while they await trail, safe from the greater risk of abuse and violence they would face there.

A new report says 21,000 evictions that could have been filed in 2020 will be filed when the moratorium is lifted. Advocates note that the 2008 recession kindled the current affordable housing shortfall and discuss the need for a reformed Affordable Requirements Ordinance.

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Cover Story: Chien-shiung wu

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A Chinese-American woman, Chien-Shiung Wu performed experiments that tested the fundamental laws of physics. In a male-dominated field, she won many honors and awards, including the National Medal of Science (1975), the inaugural Wolf Prize in Physics (1978) and honorary degrees from universities around the world. The U.S. Postal Service will issue a new Forever stamp to honor Wu, one of the most historic nuclear physicists of the 20th century.

ON THE COVER: Chien-Shiung Wu’s experiments were instrumental in supporting some of the biggest 20th-century theories in physics (Bettmann via Getty Images).

THIS PAGE: The U.S. postage stamp featuring Wu issued Feb. 11 (U.S. Postal Service).

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ARTS & (HOME) ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS Since being stuck inside, which shows have you been watching? Which movies? Have you read any good books lately? Any new music releases have you dancing in your living room? StreetWise vendors, readers and staff are sharing what is occupying their attention during this unprecedented time.

To be featured in a future edition, send your recommendations of things to do at home and why you love them to: Creative Director / Publisher Dave Hamilton at dhamilton@streetwise.org

Art with a Cause!

'Ken Bortman Here' “Ken Bortman Here!” is a phrase familiar to those at Project Onward, a nonprofit art studio that supports artists living with mental and developmental disabilities, as it is the endearing and distinctive way Ken announces himself over the phone and whenever necessary. Bortman received his BFA with a focus on painting and printmaking from The School of the Art Institute in 1979, and later moved to New York City to be a part of the Greenwich Village art scene. In this celebratory retrospective of Ken’s work, Project Onward showcases a cohesive selection of his mixed media paintings and sculptures. His distinctive, almost child-like color palette, his keen eye for composition, playful ideas, and decades of expertise come through in every piece. This free virtual exhibit is available for viewing through March 19.

Find more info at www.projectonward.org/events-1/ken-bortman-here.

(HOME) ENTERTAINMENT

Black History in Modern Art!

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'Cuts and Beats: Cecil McDonald, Jr.' The exhibition at Kanter McCormick Gallery presents a collection of Cecil McDonald, Jr.’s most recent body of work birthed from his 2018 residency at the Hyde Park Art Center, which embodies photomontages to subvert the racist representation of Black artists from history. Through his art practice, McDonald explores the intersections of masculinity, kinship, and the artistic and intellectual pursuits of Black Americans, using multiple media. "Cuts and Beats" focuses on the controlled conditions under which Black artists performed and built careers during the Vaudeville and Minstrel era. Using photomontage technique, McDonald combined manipulated historical images of Black artists publicized by the entertainment industry—vintage sheet music covers, theater advertisements, and artist publicity photographs—with contemporary photographs taken by the artist himself in dance clubs around Chicago. By blending generations, locations, and authorship, McDonald wishes to subvert, not erase, the racist representations of Black musicians popularized in the late 1800s. This free exhibit runs through June 12. Visit www.hydeparkart.org/plan-your-visit/ to schedule a tour today!

Exploring Land Rights

Property Without Rights: Origins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap Major land reform programs have reallocated property in more than one-third of the world's countries in the last century and impacted over one billion people. But only rarely have these programs granted beneficiaries complete property rights. Why is this the case, and what are the consequences? Michael Albertus, an associate professor in the department of political science at the University of Chicago, will discuss “Property Without Rights: Origins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap.” He will be joined in conversation by Susan Stokes, the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor and director of the Chicago Center on Democracy. This free virtual event presented by Seminary Co-op bookstore will take place at 5:30-6:30 p.m March 10. Reserve your place at www.semcoop.com/event.

Architecture Explorations!

A Draftsman’s Dream by Kareem Davis Kareem Davis’ elegant graphite drawings focus on the simple and straightforward beauty of buildings, both real and imagined. Many depict Chicago housing developments, the majority of which have been torn down. Some are delightful wishful thinking, like his renderings of the new Obama International Hotel and Suites and The Chicago Sky Tower (pictured). Davis is a lifelong Chicago resident and is extremely knowledgeable about the Chicago Transit Authority. W hen he is not drawing skyscrapers, he is rendering images of CTA L-trains and buses while enthusiastically informing his viewer of the design and function. Davis has been a member of Project Onward for five years. The free exhibit is open for viewing now through April 10.

Visit westernexhibitions.com to book an in-person appointment at Western Exhibitions, 1709 W. Chicago Ave. .

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Easter Bunny Bingo: Jesus, Resurrection & Peeps!

Is it a sin to answer your cell phone during Mass? Can you text your confession to your priest? Is it a sin to eat meat on a Friday during Lent? You’ll learn the answers to these and more in Vicki Quade’s comedy, “Easter Bunny Bingo: Jesus, Resurrection, & Peeps!” It's just in time for the Easter season, through April 4. The streaming performance was recorded before a live audience on March 15, 2020, the last day before the Royal George Theatre was closed to the public due to the pandemic. Select a time and date and purchase your $15 tickets at hottix.org.

N Y T Bestseller Talk!

Virtual Author Conversation: 'Professional Troublemaker' by Luvvie Ajayi Jones From the New York Times bestselling author of “I'm Judging You,” a hilarious and transformational book about how to tackle fear--that everlasting hater--and audaciously step into lives, careers, and legacies that go beyond even our wildest dreams. Luvvie Ajayi Jones will be in conversation with Brittany Packnett Cunningham. This ticketed event will be held on March 9 at 7 p.m. and will be streamed via Women & Children First's Crowdcast Channel. Attendees must purchase the book to attend. Attendees will also receive a free "Judgey Pop" with their ticket purchase. Visit www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event for individual ticket pricing and more information.

A Legendary Author!

Celebrating Sandra Cisneros Presented by the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, author Sandra Cisneros is being awarded the Fuller Award for lifetime achievement at 7 p.m. March 13. A native Chicagoan, Cisneros started her illustrious career with the 1980 publication of the poetry chapbook “Bad Boys,” and soon rose to the top of the literary stratosphere with her 1984 young adult novel, “The House on Mango Street.” The coming-of-age story, which follows, in a series of vignettes, a year in the life of Esperanza Cordero, quickly became one of the most adored books of her generation, an almost must-read at schools throughout the country. Her literary outpouring continued with an incredible array of poems, stories, memoirs, and essays, including her most recent work, “A House of My Own: Stories from My Life.” The event is free but registration is required for attendance. Visit https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event for more information.

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Vendors Russ Adams, John Hagan and Donald Morris chat about the world of sports with Executive Assistant Patrick Edwards.

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is still a threat, what next?

John: Hello, everyone. And welcome to SportsWise! So, today we’re speaking about COVID-19 and how we feel primarily about the current sports environment. Fellas, I would like to kick this off. I believe that, since COVID-19 vaccines are now being rolled out to first responders, the elderly, and the most vulnerable of our society, it’s time to reopen sporting events, concerts, and, even, in-person SportsWise regularly. Why wait until the COVID-19 positivity rate is at 0 before we open everything back up?

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Donald: Well, for me, at the moment, I believe we’re still in a heckuva tough position.

I feel as if we’re not getting everything we need in regard to the information behind the vaccines or, even, information about all of the various coronavirus strains. There’s much we don’t know and understand, and that’s troubling to me.

Russ: I have heard a lil’ something about all of these different strains coming out and it is a bit scary.

Patrick: I know, right? Well, I think that, at the moment, I’m okay with things holding as-is. I mean, as much as I want to go to a White Sox or Cubs game, I’m not will-

ing to sacrifice my or anyone else’s health just to see a live fly-out…or a home run. It’s not that serious. I personally believe our local leadership has been doing a pretty good job in helping to bring our levels back down, and this is despite many still not believing in the whole wearing-amask thing.

John: I feel we know more now than we did back in March 2020. Most important to me is that the recovery rate after contracting COVID-19 is 99.7%. Now, not saying it’s not still out there, but with the vaccines being distributed to those most at-risk of not recovering, and those who do come down with the illness being asymptomatic or experiencing very mild symptoms, why shouldn’t everything be reopened. I mean, at the very least, we could reopen 50% and move quickly toward 100% soon.

Russ: Like I’ve said a few times before, I’ve become used to the no-fans audience.

As much as I want to see a live game, I am perfectly happy chilling in the crib, watching the game on my widescreen TV with a cold one to my right, and my sociallydistanced fellas to the left. I, honestly, forget the “fans” aren’t even in the stands.

Patrick: I’m the same way.

Midway through the second half, the cameras will roll past a big-head dude on a video screen in one of the seats, and I’ll remember what’s going on.

Donald: What does scare me about all of this the most is all of these strains popping up. First, there was the UK version, and now, an African version is here, so let’s see what that’s going to do. But, in the meantime, perhaps it is best to keep things shut down to a point.

Patrick: No, exactly. Maybe our numbers don’t go down if the governor and the mayor don’t have us on restrictions.

Russ: True.

John: I disagree. I think what they’re doing—the mayor and the governor—isn’t working and is unhealthy.

Russ: I would agree with you, John, if the numbers weren’t slowing and the positivity rate was still near or over, say, 10.0, but because that’s not the case, I have to lean on what those two are doing, as well as those practicing safe measure, as helping us get out of this mess.

Donald: Right on.

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FREEdom Funding: Bringing justice to incarcerated lgbtq individuals

by Lukas Matuszewski

Scott Greenberg isn’t easily surprised. As the founder of Connecticut's first bail fund, he was familiar with injustice. But a 2017 study by the Williams Institute at UCLA about the incarceration rate of LGBTQ people shocked him. They were three times more likely than the general population to be put in jail.

"It was more than you would expect," he said. "It seemed like there was an overrepresentation.”

This study wasn’t an outlier. Another study by the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law quoted by Reuters news service found that incarceration rates of sexual minorities were 1,882 for every 100,000 -- again, three times as high as the average 612 per 100,000 for non-sexual minorities in the U.S.

In 2017, Greenberg founded the LGBTQ Freedom Fund, which posts bail for incarcerated people, keeping them out of jail while they await their trials (the money is refunded when they show up in court). Pretrial freedom is important for LGBTQ people, who are also at a greater risk of abuse and violence in jail.

According to the 2016 study, “Unjust: How The Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT People” by the Movement Advancement Project, 74% of LGBTQ people held in jail can’t afford bail or legal representation; 69% of LGBTQ people have experienced homelessness at some point, making it more likely that they will be arrested.

“I said, I am going to put this all together and build this direct intervention to get these LGBT folks out,” Greenberg said.

“From bailing folks out, to education, to research on all the different ways and complex facets of the criminal legal system and understanding how do LGBT people intersect with it in unique ways.”

The LGBTQ Freedom Fund began with just $500 and a strategy of working together with other bail funds in the National Bail Fund Network. “Sometimes we don’t have the resources and capacity to post bonds entirely on our own or under-

stand all the laws and procedures,” he said. The next year, its budget was closer to $150,000, and today it has several million dollars and a lot more ability to not only post bail, but to offer programs to help LGBTQ people avoid entanglement with the carceral system.

“I wrote a lot of grants and raised money that way, but mobilizing, tapping into social media, and seeing the power of connecting with people who are willing to support the cause -- that’s where the financial power has come from for us,” Greenberg said. “Most of the money that we have just comes from small dollar donations. It’s the people that want to support us and donate $20,$10, or even $5.”

Recent protests have increased donations. “A lot of donations came in the midst of the Black Lives Matter uprising because a lot of people were first made aware of what bail funds are,” said Briana Payton, policy fellow at the Chicago Community Bond Fund.

Since 2017, the Freedom Fund has helped post bail for people in 15 states, including California, Florida and Illinois. This includes LGBTQ people in jails as well as immigration detention centers. “How do you build a case that displays that you should be granted bond or asylum when you’re shackled behind bars?” said Greenberg. “When we bail folks out, it actually gives them that opportunity.” www.streetwise.org

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“People are in survival mode, with high risks of contracting HIV. They have harsher sentences. They have to deal with higher rates of sexual assault or harassment. Oftentimes they're being placed in a facility that does not affirm their gender,” Greenberg said.

Scott Greenberg (lgbtqfund.org).

One reason for this disparity is LBGTQ bigotry. “What gets you there is widespread discrimination, family rejection, discrimination in employment and all of these factors feeding people into places in life where they are more likely to be caught up in criminalization,” Greenberg said. “The reality is that there’s not really many services for LGBTQ folks.”

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Some LGBTQ people were detained while seeking asylum after fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation or identity. “The immigration bail work that we are doing is nationwide. And we’ve bailed out a lot of LGBT folks from a lot of different corners of the globe who are just fleeing really awful, awful anti-LGBT violence,” Greenberg said.

Following the bail-out process, the LGBTQ Freedom Fund provides additional services. Those might be offered directly, or through partner organizations. “We have our own case management program here at the LGBTQ Freedom Fund where we're able to connect people to resources and also follow up,” said Tremaine Jones, project director for the LGBTQ Freedom Fund. HIV -- a major concern in the LBGTQ community -- is also covered.

According to “Unjust,” some of the highest rates of new HIV infections occur in prisons and maximum correctional facilities among LGBTQ inmates.

“We do a lot of education around HIV. It's about making sure that people get resources for HIV testing, STI testing, or even getting trans people to get on HRT. We also connect them to resources in the community where they can get tested or get connected to better care,” Jones said. “Not only are we getting our people out of jail because we want to get them out of jail, but it's also about making sure that people have the resources so that they're able to less likely get caught up in getting arrested again.”

Jones said seeing these people get the help they need and to be able to rejoin society is a rewarding experience. “I've been fortunate enough to witness people develop the understanding and knowledge of what their rights are and create the tools to be able to advocate for themselves.”

tantly target the LGBTQ community with over-policing in areas notorious for casual homosexual encounters. The war on drugs punishes the LGBTQ community at a higher rate due to the group’s vulnerability with drug use and drug dealing as a coping mechanism and a financial means for survival.

Jones would like to take it even further. “I would like to create an outreach program that is composed of LGBTQ folks who share this history and are able to engage with others. A program where we're compensating people for their time, like an internship, where it also gives them opportunity to get over the hurdle of job insecurity,” said Jones.

The Chicago Community Bond Fund helps bring awareness to the underlying issue of money bonds by emphasizing equality and fair chance. “Our criteria for posting bail is not based on a particular set of charges,” Payton said. “Our system just penalizes people for the sake of penalizing them. Not because someone was hurt, not because someone is at risk of being hurt, but literally just to punish because they can.”

Certain people within the community are more impacted than others. According to “Unjust,” Black LGBTQ individuals are five times more likely to be incarcerated than any other ethnicity. Additionally, of the 3.2 million LGBTQ youth in the United States, nearly half are at risk of being arrested.

The study also outlines discriminatory enforcement of laws that impact LGBTQ people disproportionately: criminalization of HIV and consensual sex; and enforcement of drug laws.

People living with HIV are at a constant risk of being charged even when prevention measures are taken and transmission proves unintentional. Laws criminalizing consensual sex bla-

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Understanding these circumstances and giving these people a means of defense is important, said Payton. “There are unique challenges that are faced by different marginalized groups. It's just about people getting back to their lives and doing what they were all meant to be doing.”

On February 22, Gov. J. B. Pritzker signed the Pretrial Fairness Act passed by the Illinois General Assembly in January.

The new law makes Illinois the first state to end the use of money bonds, ensuring no one will end up incarcerated due to the inability to afford bond.

LEFT: LGBTQ Freedom Fund posted bond for people detained in states highlighted magenta (lgbtqfund.org). RIGHT: How the broken criminal justice system fails LGBT people of color.

Sharlyn Grace, executive director of the Chicago Community Bond Fund and active member of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice, described situations this new legislation is intended to prevent. “When people are arrested and given a money bond they can’t afford to pay, they end up in jail… that increases the chance of someone losing their job, their housing and their access to the resources they need.”

According to the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice's Coalition to End Money Bond, this new legislation will also ensure faster release, require courts to provide common sense pretrial services, increase government transparency and accountability and, most importantly, warrant reform.

Grace added that this warranted reform will help minorities who are more criminalized due to rampant discrimination.

“It’s designed to try to bring more equity in the opportunities that people have.”

Payton said it was essentially the Chicago Community Bond Fund’s advocacy that “really wrote” the bill. However, there is still work to be done. “Legislation is not necessarily final. The same way a law can be passed, a law can be passed to repeal that law.

“We’re going to continue doing a lot of advocacy, awarenessbuilding and meeting with legislators... making sure to hold those accountable to get the legislation implemented properly.”

The advocacy and awareness-building resonates with donors.

“Our success was very lucky. We don’t have a PR firm. I don’t have a doctorate, I’m not a lawyer. I’m just telling them something they haven’t heard before,” said Greenberg. “We got a lot of celebrities to come and support us, a lot of big tech companies and other organizations that finally started to pay attention to this intersectional issue about sexual orientation and gender identity when you're talking about mass incarceration.”

None of this would have been possible, he noted, if not for the greater acceptance of LGBTQ people in recent years. “We are advocating on an issue that people were finally willing to hear,” he said. “It’s amazing to see people using our organization as a springboard to giving a voice to all of this. Now we can start having these conversations… it’s not an alien concept anymore.”

Lukas Matuszewski is a graduating senior finishing his last semester at Columbia College Chicago, where he double-majors in multimedia journalism and public relations. Written in his Solutions Journalism class, Lukas feels strongly about this subject matter and its potential to reach wide audiences and inform those who were once uninformed.

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Avalanche of Evictions Could Leave Chicago Renters with Nowhere to Go

by Wendy Rosen

Thousands of Chicago renters facing eviction when the pandemic eviction moratorium ends may find it tough to find an affordable place to live.

Roughly 21,000 evictions that would have otherwise been filed in 2020 are predicted to be filed when the moratorium expires. Prior to the pandemic, Chicago’s average monthly eviction rate was 1,500.

This dire prediction from the report, “Eviction Filings, Unemployment and the Impact of COVID-19,” was presented by Peter Rosenblatt, associate professor, Loyola University Chicago, Department of Sociology, at a Dec. 17, 2020 virtual town hall held by Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing (LCBH).

Based on actual data and predictive modeling for 2020, researchers found a statistically significant relationship between unemployment one month and the number of evictions the next month.

“Renters may find themselves owing a significant amount of back rent over several months and at this point landlords may well file an eviction,” Rosenblatt said. “So, the question we’re looking at -- will there be this huge wave or tsunami of eviction filings once the moratorium lifts?”

LCBH recommends immediate relief for those facing eviction, including increasing rental assistance, extending the eviction moratorium, and sealing COVID-19-related eviction court records.

Though the COVID-19 eviction moratorium keeps cashstrapped tenants housed for now, they’ll still owe back rent when the moratorium ends. How tens of thousands of renters who have suffered job loss will pay their debts remains a question.

Prior to the pandemic, the Chicago Department of Housing’s (DOH) Inclusionary Housing Task Force identified a “longstanding affordable housing crisis with a citywide

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shortage of nearly 120,000 affordable homes,” according to the Task Force report. The 2008 housing crisis kindled the current affordable housing shortfall as a surge of foreclosures prompted developers to purchase bargain properties and convert them into luxury residences.

“What we learned is scary. We learned that we lost hundreds of thousands of [affordable] homes and rental units since the last housing crisis,” said Noah Moskowitz, senior community organizer, housing, ONE Northside. “And now we have hundreds of thousands of tenants in Illinois at risk of eviction. Small and medium-sized landlords won’t be able to hold on.”

Moskowitz joined community members, landlords, advocates, attorneys, and Alds. Maria Hadden, (49th), Andre Vasquez, (40th), Byron Sigcho-Lopez, (25th), and Matt Martin, (47th), at the livestream event, “We Won’t Get Fooled Again: Tenants Rights, the last housing crisis and what we can do about this.” Participants at the Feb. 6 event, organized by the Chicago Housing Initiative, seek to strengthen housing ordinances to protect Chicago’s vulnerable residents.

Advocates are concerned that Chicago could lose more affordable units as large entities snap up properties from small landlords who may face foreclosure or bankruptcy when tenants can’t pay rent.

OPPOSITE PAGE: Source: Eviction Filings, Unemployment, and the Impact of COVID-19, Dec. 2020 report prepared by Loyola University Chicago Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) and Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing (LCBH).

THIS PAGE: The 18th St. Station on the CTA Pink Line in Pilsen, decorated by local artists. Gentrification has raised rents here to among the highest in the city, so that a proposed ordinance would require 30% set asides of affordable housing (Suzanne Hanney photo).

ing units, completed 444 affordable units and started construction on 682. They’ve promised another 3,148 units, which includes the ARO mandate for the megadevelopments Lincoln Yards and The 78, Moskowitz said.

The proposed Chicago Inclusive Housing Ordinance (CIHO) would reform the ARO. Ald. Sigcho-Lopez is a co-chair of the Inclusionary Housing Task Force that identified two major problems with the current ARO. First, its units are targeted to people making at least 60 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI). Second, 75 percent of ARO units are studios and one-bedrooms that don’t accommodate families.

“We have a recipe for Mayor Lightfoot,” Ald. SigchoLopez said. “We’ve got to make sure we have a strong ARO, where developers and realtors are not drafting our laws, but we are drafting them based on best practices based on what we have seen in other cities working where developers are held accountable and aren’t drafting legislation.”

The CIHO would require: • Developers to build affordable units on site, and would end “in lieu of ” fees

“These conglomerates will be acquiring apartment buildings and 2- and 3- flats across neighborhoods where landlords have struggled with rent collection, said Ali Bahramirad, underwriter, National Equity Fund and Affordable Requirements Ordinance Task Force member.

“That would allow large investors to buy a lot of this housing – do some updates to the housing and increase the rents, making affordability in a lot of neighborhoods in Chicago even a bigger issue.”

Ald. Vasquez said the threat of eviction is personal. He suffered multiple displacements as a child. “I understood that one missed bill payment, one accident that leads to hospital bills, or one hurdle could just derail our path forward and leave us unhoused.

“And that’s all prior to the global pandemic and economic depression we’re all living in now,” Ald. Vasquez said. “That’s why it’s incumbent on us to find solutions to protect those who are most vulnerable in this moment and to push against the status quo solutions that have nailed us in the past.”

For nearly 15 years developers have opted to pay fees in lieu of producing the number of affordable units specified by the City of Chicago’s Affordable Requirements Ordinance (ARO).

Since the ARO’s inception in 2007, developers have built or planned 30,000 to 40,000 new high-rent hous-

• Half the units affordable to people earning 50 percent of the AMI ($31,850), which is the median Latinx income; another quarter of the units targeted to people at 20 percent of AMI ($12,740) the annual income for a majority of disability recipients; the final quarter priced at 30 percent of AMI ($19,150), the median Black household income • Affordable housing set-asides of 10 percent in low-cost zones, 20 percent in moderate-cost zones, and 30 percent in high-cost and high-displacement areas • Sixty percent of affordable units to be 2-bedrooms, and 30 percent to be 3-bedroom or larger • Wheelchair-accessibility • Commercial developers to pay a per-square-foot density fee to help fund existing affordable housing programs “This is a matter of making sure that we have a social fabric of the city that is a city for everyone. Not just for rich developers and corporations,” said Ald. Sigcho-Lopez. “We cannot allow this to be the norm and see thousands of people being evicted in the middle of a pandemic.

This is our time.”

Wendy Rosen is a multimedia reporter covering a range of issues from immigration to housing to education. She is a winner of the National Federation of Press Women 2019 National Communications Contest for her photo story in StreetWise on Chicago’s Rohinga refugee community.

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COVER STORY

by Xuejian Wu

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From LEFT: The new U.S. postage stamp featuring Wu (U.S. Postal Service). Wu received many accolades, including an honorary doctorate at Harvard in 1974 (Bettmann via Getty Images). Beta decay describes the process when a fast-moving electron or positron leaves an atom’s nucleus, leaving behind a different kind of atom (ttsz/iStock via Getty Images Plus).

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To empower the entrepreneurial spirit through the dignity of self-employment by providing Chicagoans facing homelessness with a combination of supportive social services, workforce development resources and immediate access to gainful employment.

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