Descriptions of the how authorities responded to the covid-19 pandemic by correctional officers, health care staff, and inmates at Cook County Jail.

Article from the Chicago Sun Times in which people, who work in or near Chicago, give insight on how the pandemic has affected them financially.

This is a press release from the Mayor of Chicago which comments on RERT, Rapid Equity Rapid Response Team, which aims to address the disproportionate impact of covid-19 on African-American communities and how it plans to do this in Chicago.

Map of School Outbreaks By County. Darker Blue areas indicates greater numbers of outbreaks in comparison to other counties. Of the 13 outbreaks in Illinois, on data from December 4 2020, 5 are from Cook County.

This is part of a five-part polling series which took place from July to August 2020. It was conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and examines the most serious problems in four major…

This article discusses the BLM Movement in Chicago. The director of the Chicago chapter, Amika Tendaji, talks about how the pandemic has hit black communities in Chicago hard, and mentions that these communities are in need of resources.

This is an interview with Dr. Monica Peek, an associate professor of the University of Chicago Medicine that was studying racial health disparities even before the covid-19 outbreak. In the interview Dr. Peek states that racial minorities in Chicago…