From partly undoing cuts for branch library hours to extending the school day seven – not seven and a half – hours, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has scaled back major policy changes in response to public criticism. Thus far, this is not the case with the... »
From Christmas Carols calling Rahm Emanuel a Grinch to a proposal that the city pay for mental health care through raising the yacht mooring tax, the Mental Health Movement coalition has spent months energetically fighting the city’s plan to close six ... »
The occupation of the Woodlawn Mental Health clinic. »
On Monday, the first round of mental health center closures hit Rogers Park and Logan Square. Northwest MHC and Northtown Rogers Park MHC will be the first of six planned mental health center to shut over the next week. Under the city's budget passed i... »
This is where it happens. My desk.- Bill Morton__________________________________________Rogers Park updates »
March 6, Chicagoans across the city took to the streets to rally against the proposed closures of six of the city's twelve mental health clinics over the next month and a half. »
The Mental Health Movement coalition says that the Chicago Department of Public Health wrote a letter to each patient of the city’s mental health services clinics this weekend outlining when the city will close six of its 12 mental health facilities an... »
Mental health proponents are not backing down, and they say word that patients have been turned away from the services they need only add fuel to their fire. Demonstrators want Mayor Rahm Emanuel to keep all 12 of the city's mental health clinics open.... »
