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. »
Alicia Ivy is fed up with the foreclosure blight dragging down her block in West Humboldt Park and was only too happy, on the sunny first Friday of 2012, to give Mayor Rahm Emanuel a walking tour of the lowlights. Activist Alicia Ivy is proud of her ni... »
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... »
Health advocates and workers held a candlelight vigil in front of city hall last night in the hopes of staving off proposed cuts in the city budget to clinics and the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) and Department of Family Support Services ... »
About two dozen workers, patients and supporters protesting the closure of a South Side mental health clinic were arrested early Friday. The group barricaded themselves Thursday behind steel gates and cement inside the Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic at ... »
