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CHICAGO MATTERS: Inside Housing
Thirty-Minute Documentaries
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Documentaries air Wednesdays and the following Tuesday
Wednesday at 6 pm CT and
Tuesdays at 10:25 am CT during Eight
Forty-Eight.
Audio On-Demand
is available following the broadcast.
| Residence
Elsewhere: Urban Nomads |
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Wednesday, April
24 @ 6 pm and Tuesday, April 30, 2002 @ 10:25 am
For some
of us, mobility eventually means…never settling down. This
documentary tells the stories of people who can't seem to stay in one
place very long and what home means to them.
Producer: Joan Schuman
Wednesday, May
1 @ 6 pm and Tuesday, May 7, 2002 @ 10:25 am
Women and
children are the fastest growing population in our city's homeless shelters.
By some estimates, 20,000 homeless children go to our public schools.
In this documentary we meet a family that left a homeless shelter in the
fall. We follow them as this mother and her children try to create stability
in their lives.
Producer: Tony
Sarabia
| The
Changing Face of Marquette Park |
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Wednesday, May 8
@ 6 pm and Tuesday, May 14, 2002 @ 10:25 am
Chicago is still one of the most segregated cities in the country. Yet,
in some neighborhoods, old patterns of segregation are giving way to new
ethnically and racially mixed communities. This documentary looks at the
changing face of one such community, Marquette Park.
Producer: Lex Gillespie
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Wednesday, May
15 @ 6 pm and Tuesday, May 21, 2002 @ 10:25 am
House of Pain is the street name for a Chicago Public Housing high-rise
building at Stateway Gardens. When residents learn their building is scheduled
for demolition, they must come to terms with their next move. Producer:
Dan Collison
and Elizabeth Meister
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Andre "Dre"
Williams, resident of "House of Pain," describes the demolition
of another building at Stateway Gardens.
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"House
of Pain" resident Gloria Dixon reads a letter she wrote to
CHA Chief Executive Officer Terry Peterson complaining about the
poor elevator service in her building.
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