This article from the Red Line Project gives statistics which indicate that minority groups make up a majority of covid cases in Chicago, states that there is a relationship between high cases of covid-19 and lower income communities, and discusses…

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…

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 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.

These are a number of screenshots of tweets from the Chicago chapter's BLM twitter account. The tweets criticize Mayor Lori Lightfoot, list demands for the city of Chicago, and talk about the disproportionate impact of covid-19 in prison.

This is an article from the Chicago Tribune that illustrates the way household finances in the Chicago Area and Illinois have been affected by the pandemic. The article does this by using five charts which illustrate such aspects as what percentage…

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 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…

Article that studies the correlation between the incarcerated and people cycling through jails and the potential for spreading the coronavirus. It uses Cook County Jail as an example.

A map of covid-19 cases by zip code in Illinois. Darker blue areas means a higher number of cases in comparison to other areas in Illinois. As seen in the map, the Chicago area has higher proportions of covid cases in comparison to other areas of…