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UrduUniversity of Chicago Medicine is joining the Cook County’s Medical Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI), working with a national charity to abolish $240 million in medical debt for more than 123,000 patients, including more than 85,000 Cook County residents.
Tag: Cook County
Chicago’s racial wealth gap examined in new UIC report
Interviews by the University of Illinois Chicago’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy highlight the precarity of many Black and Latino families who have ‘made it’
Sweetened beverage sales bounced back quickly after Cook County tax repealed
Following the repeal of the short-lived Cook County, Illinois Sweetened Beverage Tax, sales of sweetened beverages went right back to where they were before the tax went into place, according to a new study.
Study finds nearly 16% of Illinois COVID-19 cases linked to spread from Chicago jail
Using data from Cook County Jail, researchers analyzed the relationship between jailing practices and COVID-19 community infections. They found that cycling through Cook County Jail—which accounts for the period of time from arrest to awaiting hearings and trials—is associated with 15.9% of all documented COVID-19 cases in Chicago and 15.7% of those in Illinois.
UIC study examines impact of Chicago River reversal on region’s aquatic environments, fauna
Prior to European settlement, wetlands, lakes and streams were the major landscape features of the Chicago region. Much of this has been altered or lost in the past 150 years, most notably by the reversal of the Chicago River in 1900 with the construction of the Sanitary and Ship Canal. Many animal species that lived in these habitats also disappeared.