Welcome to Chicago Health magazine’s Neighborhood Health Project!
This data-driven approach dives into Chicago’s health landscape and includes data from the Chicago Health Atlas, a comprehensive data portal that includes city, state, and federal data sets about Chicago on a neighborhood level. The goal: to look at the health of Chicago residents holistically to better understand the unique strengths and challenges of the city’s neighborhoods. With ever-changing health policies, including cuts to Medicaid, we hope this will be a helpful tool for readers to see relevant data and hear from providers, community leaders, and residents about the health of their neighborhoods.
For an overview of how Chicago stacks up as a blue zone (regions worldwide where people live exceptionally long, healthy lives), check out this story from our latest print issue.
Rachel Duckett is a freelance health and science writer. A lifelong Midwesterner, she previously hosted All Things Considered at WVIK, Quad Cities NPR in Rock Island, Illinois. She has also worked at an environmental initiative out of Detroit Public Television called Great Lakes Now, covering environmental stories in the Great Lakes Basin, and as a copy editor for the Spartan Medical Research Journal in East Lansing, Michigan. She hopes to demystify research and medicine for a general audience with her writing.
A health journalist and attorney who lives in Chicago, Kimberly covers science, health and the environment as a graduate student at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. She hopes to use her knowledge of public health and law to communicate complex issues to the general public.
