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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 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.

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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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Articles

Big Payback People’s Assembly calls for overdue reparations for Black Chicagoans

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By Corli Jay 
| Chicago Reader
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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Hyde Park Academy students sound alarm on removal of Peace Room from high school

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By Corli Jay 
| Chicago Reader
Students at Hyde Park Academy are speaking out after they said the principal removed organizers and a Peace Room from the Woodlawn high school. The move comes after a town hall that took place on Wednesday, May 13, where students voiced frustrations about the lack of resources and support at the school following the death of three Hyde Park Academy students within a month of each other.
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Online affordable housing pilot advances to City Council for a vote

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By Corli Jay 
| Chicago Reader
A tool to make finding affordable housing easier to locate may soon be a reality after the  Committee on Housing and Real Estate advanced an ordinance to pilot a centralized online affordable housing portal.
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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.

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