In an effort to improve the availability of affordable, preventative health care in some of Chicago’s most at-risk communities, female leadership from the largest faith-based organizations across the city have come together to sponsor a city-wide health fair providing a wide variety of information, testing and consultation to the community for free.
In this episode we discuss several important challenges being addressed by the Chicago Department of Public Health including a recent spike in local cases of West Nile Virus disease, initiatives to reduce obesity rates in children and adults, improving the availability of fresh produce and healthy food choices in underserved communities, reorganization of Chicago’s mental healthcare resources to better serve patients lacking health insurance and addressing street violence as a public health concern instead of simply a law enforcement issue.
In this episode we get an overview of the ongoing economic and political crisis facing the European Union, the potential impact of an EU breakup on the United States’ economy and how these international challenges will play a role in the platforms presented by the Presidential candidates in this year’s coming national election.
In this episode, our select panel of Chicago journalists returns to discuss several issues making headlines locally including Chicago’s new food truck ordinance and its potential impact on local businesses and entrepreneurs, discrepancies between the amount of federal funding going towards local public housing and the actual number of occupied residences highlighting fiscal inefficiencies within the CHA, the new definition of “gentrification” in Chicago neighborhoods and how ethnically homogenous communities can benefit from an influx of more diverse residents and businesses, and Chicago’s implementation of 100 miles of bike lanes on city streets in an effort to make alternative modalities of transportation more attractive to city dwellers.
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