Rachel Aretakis
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state & solutions editor, @IllinoisAnswers | previously, @usatoday and @courierjournal | proud @kykernel alum
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https://www.usatoday.com 26-04-2011 02:14:44
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#journalismjob alert: Illinois Answers Project is hiring an investigative reporter to join our state team
💰 $75k-$90k
📍Remote for candidates already reporting in central or southern Illinois
Apply by March 27:
illinoisanswers.org/2024/02/29/sta…
The Chicago Housing Authority is supposed to provide affordable homes for those in need. But the agency has nearly 500 scattered-site units that are vacant — many causing problems for their neighbors.
From Illinois Answers Project and Block Club Chicago: illinoisanswers.org/2023/11/29/chi…
We're building a new state team at Illinois Answers Project and we have one more opening for an embedded investigative reporter. Details here: illinoisanswers.org/2023/10/12/emb…
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith tells staff in a town hall call that his last day will be Dec. 31st. Illinois Answers Project illinoisanswers.org/2023/10/04/dcf…
For years now, Better Government Association/Illinois Answers Project has been reporting how Chicago's slow, disorganized building regulation system misses safety issues.
So what does it look like when a city actually holds bad landlords accountable? We went to Denver to find out:
illinoisanswers.org/2023/09/18/chi…
.Jewél Jackson and Emeline Posner examined hundreds of pages of records (land appraisals, real estate agreements, internal emails between officials) to lay out the school’s development process. Take a look >>
.Nada Hassanein explains why a common heart defect is diagnosed late - or not at all - in Latino infants
usatoday.com/story/news/hea…
At least 226 convictions tied to former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and his team have been vacated – the largest series of exonerations in the city’s history.
No officer has faced charges in these cases.
Read Grace Hauck's report: usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
'We are not OK,' Comerío resident Maria de Jesus Medina, 83, told Kevin Crowe. 'It's difficult to keep it together, to try and get back up again.' usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
Prosecutors charged Robert Telles on Monday with a count of murder. He due to be formally arraigned today. Here's Trevor Hughes' story about Las Vegas investigative reporter Jeff German and his work usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
A fascinating read from Grace Hauck, who spoke to archeologists about why a missing foot has changed what we believe about prehistoric human life usatoday.com/story/news/nat…