1/ 70 of Chicago’s first 100 recorded victims of COVID-19 were black. They were nurses, teachers and veterans. Businesses owners, church deacons, musicians. Their deaths cannot be dismissed as inevitable.

These are some of their stories... [thread] 2/ First, a quote: “... every natural disaster will peel back the day-to-day covers over society and reveal the social fault lines that decide in some ways who gets to live and who gets to die.”
—Dr. David Ansell, Rush University Medical Center

1/ Our reporting with @ProPublica on the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy was named a @PulitzerPrizes finalist this week. Here’s the entire series: propub.li/2GppaEJ ⬇️ And here’s a thread about our work on immigrant shelters in Illinois: 2/ Last summer, we learned that dozens of immigrant children and teens separated from their parents at the southern U.S. border had been held in a secretive network of shelters in the Chicago area. propublica.org/article/illino…

1/ A 12-year-old Guatemalan boy named Erik went home this week after four months inside an Illinois shelter for immigrant children. We wrote about him and other kids separated from their parents. Here’s what happened when he was reunited with his family. propublica.org/article/trump-… 2/ Erik’s mother, father, aunt and grandmother were waiting at the airport in Guatemala City. “I thought I’d never see my mother and father again,” he told @latimes reporter @thecindycarcamo, who documented the reunion. (Photo by Cindy Carcamo)

1/ We now have thousands of records that reveal what life is like inside the nine Chicago-area @HeartlandHelps shelters that house immigrant children and teens. One pattern is clear: The longer children are detained, the more they struggle. propublica.org/article/chicag… 2/ Many of the children are already reeling from the trauma of rape, violence or other abuse suffered in their home countries or during their treks to the U.S.

1/ In less than 90 minutes one afternoon, Chicago police officers slapped three $200 tickets on a South Side woman’s car because she didn’t have a city vehicle sticker. This is duplicate ticketing—which many officials say is not allowed. propublica.org/article/chicag… 2/ With @WBEZ, we analyzed data on all tickets issued since January 2007 and found nearly *20,000 incidents* in which the same vehicle received at least two city sticker tickets on the same day. Why so many duplicate tickets? Well …

1/ Oct. 3, 2006: A Chicago cop calls 911. So does the teen the cop's gun is pointed at. Here are their calls. Story: propub.li/2zwaL4J 2/ At 11:51 p.m. is the first call:

1/ Here’s a story on how illegal gun trafficking works in Chicago. 2/ Many of Chicago’s guns come from out of state. But how they get onto the streets rarely involves cartel-like scenarios you see in movies.

1/ Chicago police officer John Catanzara posted this photo of himself on Facebook. Today it went viral—and now he’s being reprimanded. 2/ This photo came just days after a photograph of 2 other cops taking a knee went viral. CPD reprimanded them, too. chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-c…