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(She/Her/Foe Nem) Chicago journo 📝| formerly @crainschicago | 20/21 City Bureau Reporting Fellow. corli@thetriibe.com

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Corli Jay’s Biography

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Corli Jay is a community-focused journalist who has covered economic inequality, housing and local business with a lens on Black communities in Chicago. Corli's work also includes working Chicago's media beat, labor and unionization in various sectors.

Her work has been featured in various Chicago-based publications, including Chicago Magazine, the Chicago Reader and South Side Weekly.

Corli Jay’s Journalist Portfolio

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The $9 billion gamble: South Chicago's high-tech future vs. its industrial past * The TRiiBE

The $9 billion gamble: South Chicago's high-tech future vs. its industrial past * The TRiiBE

Some want to kill the quantum project entirely; others want to be shielded from displacement and environmenta…

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Alternate alder bloc propose selling unpaid debts, critics warn Chicago's working people will pay...

Alternate alder bloc propose selling unpaid debts, critics warn Chicago's working people will pay...

"It can be the reason why people just sell their homes," Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez said.

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South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black...

South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black...

Federal agent activity on Chicago's South and West sides put Black people in the crosshairs.

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What is participatory budgeting and why aren't many Black wards doing it? * The TRiiBE

What is participatory budgeting and why aren't many Black wards doing it? * The TRiiBE

Answers tie to geographical makeup of wards and limited flexibility of how to use menu money.

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Before his last broadcast, Tom Skilling looks back on four decades as 'Chicago's Very Own'

Before his last broadcast, Tom Skilling looks back on four decades as 'Chicago's Very Own'

After nearly half a century of telling the weather at WGN, Skilling never anticipated the outpouring of love …

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Streetwear Brand Pillars Celebrates Chicago's High School Culture with Themed Merchandise

Streetwear Brand Pillars Celebrates Chicago's High School Culture with Themed Merchandise

"It started off with just our schools, and everybody just started requesting it," one co-founder of Pillars s…

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South Shore and Washington Park community members’ fight against displacement near the Obama Center is ongoing

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Days after the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, residents of nearby South Shore and Washington Park are still fighting to stay in their communities. “I don’t stay in South Shore anymore because, last year, I was displaced,” said Mashawnda Price from the pulpit at Bryn Mawr Community Church.
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Chicago youth fight for a better future through the summer Environmental Justice Freedom School

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Traveling to Black Oaks Center, a Black-owned farm located in Pembroke, Illinois, roughly 80 miles south of Chicago, Derion Melton looked out at the farmland as he ate his lunch, taking it all in. “The fact that I’m far from home is already a big thing in itself,” Melton said.
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Big Payback People’s Assembly calls for overdue reparations for Black Chicagoans

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For some, reparations for the centuries of harm done to Black Americans can look like affordable housing, investing in disinvested communities, and direct payments to the descendants of chattel slavery. These were some of the ideas presented during the Big Payback People’s Assembly on Saturday, May 30, in Alt Space’s Austin location.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My first job was at Chicago's oldest neighborhood newspaper, the Hyde Park Herald

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No

How is social media changing news?

With short news bites and clips, which make it harder for print to stand out and be read.