JESSICA REAVES
Jessica Reaves has worked as a reporter and writer for nearly 15 years. Before contributing to the Chicago News Cooperative, she was with the Chicago Tribune, where she reviewed books and movies, wrote award-winning profiles for the Tribune Sunday Magazine and covered national news. In 2007, she traveled on an international reporting fellowship to Senegal and was named a Livingston Award finalist for her reporting on activists’ efforts to end female circumcision in West Africa.
Before joining the Tribune, Jessica wrote for Time.com in New York, covering the 2000 presidential campaign and its extended aftermath, the Amadou Diallo murder trial, the 9/11 attacks, and the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Early in her career, she reported for Ms. Magazine and wrote freelance articles about international adoption law and euthanasia, the latter for Bill Moyers of PBS. She has appeared frequently on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and NPR.
Recent Contributions
by JESSICA REAVES | Aug 1, 2011
Alex Kotlowitz stood at the edge of a red carpet outside the Chatham I.C.E. movie theater on Wednesday evening, sweating slightly in the heat. It was an hour before a special “friends and family” premiere of his documentary, “The Interrupters,” and he was greeting new arrivals with back-slapping, one-armed hugs. “Come over here for a
by JESSICA REAVES | Jul 11, 2011
Katrina Barge, an artist who was among the 1,000 public schoolteachers laid off last summer, sat up a bit straighter as she described a recent painting. “It’s called ‘Though I’m Broken and Bruised, There’s Hope in This Pain,’ ” she said. Barge, 28, and other former Chicago art teachers have returned to creating art as
by JESSICA REAVES | Jun 12, 2011
When Lonnie Griffin was released from prison in December, he had a goal: to find a job. But with a criminal record and no work experience, Griffin, 23 and the father of two, had two strikes against him, in a tough job market. So his job counselor recommended the 12-week job-training course at Blue Sky
by JESSICA REAVES | Feb 26, 2011
When Elizabeth Mhangami was 15, she helped administer polio vaccinations to children in rural Zimbabwe. The villages were not far from her hometown, Bulawayo, but today Ms. Mhangami can see that the short journey altered her perception.
by JESSICA REAVES | Feb 10, 2011
An hour before the start of Tuesday night’s penultimate dress rehearsal, half the cast of Sideshow Theatre Company’s “Heddatron” was making a lot of noise — lunging and stretching, their voices swooping through a range of warm-up exercises.
by JESSICA REAVES | Jan 29, 2011
The small group that gathered at lunchtime inside a strip-mall storefront in Skokie had not come to eat. They had come to Smokes & Such to admire the new $30,000 machine that spits out a carton of custom-made cigarettes in eight minutes flat — at $27 a carton. That’s $2.70 a pack, or about a
by JESSICA REAVES | Jan 20, 2011
When Martha Bayne started bartending at the Hideout, she quickly realized she had to do something to combat the boredom and bad tips associated with her midweek shifts.
by JESSICA REAVES | Jan 1, 2011
Last week, it was perfectly legal to walk into a Chicago smoke shop and buy any variety of K2 incense, a synthetic marijuana product. At 12:01 a.m. Jan. 1, it became a felony offense to buy, sell or possess the drug. But the authorities worry the ban will not be effective for long.
by JESSICA REAVES | Dec 16, 2010
Howard Brown Health Center, a longtime pillar of Chicago’s gay and lesbian community, faces its most daunting crisis: reclaiming its reputation as one of the nation’s premier advocacy institutions in the wake of a financial scandal earlier this year that left its supporters shaken and led to the ouster of top executives.
by JESSICA REAVES | Dec 16, 2010
The fur is flying at the Brookfield Zoo, where officials have denounced an amusement tax approved Monday by the president and board of trustees of the Village of Brookfield, saying it is illegal and unnecessary.
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