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Three Chicago teens, one pandemic year: How COVID-19 widened education gaps for boys of colour
As the promise of spring hung over Chicago, three teenage boys tussled with insomnia, sifting through the fallout of a pandemic year’s interlocking crises. Read more![Chalkbeat_1](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Photo-Alan-Petersime-128x128.jpg)
Chicago helped 55,000 pupils get free internet. Much work remains.
Chicago Connected — the city’s ambitious initiative to help low-income students get online — has provided tens of thousands of families with free internet since it launched last summer and has become a national model...Read more![Screenshot 2020-08-21 at 09.18.40](https://www.childinthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screenshot-2020-08-21-at-09.18.40-128x128.png)