https://billhealymedia.com Bill Healy Media Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:55:28 +0000 https://billhealymedia.com en https://billhealymedia.com/HOME Sun, 07 Aug 2022 23:28:57 +0000 Bill Healy Media https://billhealymedia.com/HOME BILL HEALYJOURNALIST https://billhealymedia.com/Lenard-Clark Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:45:27 +0000 Bill Healy Media https://billhealymedia.com/Lenard-Clark YOU DIDN’T SEE NOTHIN2023Twenty-five years ago in Chicago, a little boy was beaten into a coma, just for being Black. Almost overnight, the news stories turned to racial reconciliation and forgiveness. <img width="888" height="888" width_o="888" height_o="888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6843fb025ebf38213a32b30309dd30c967d0e17d6e26ba815b003a9386db78c4/01---YDSN-Slideshow-2.JPEG" data-mid="217832916" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/888/i/6843fb025ebf38213a32b30309dd30c967d0e17d6e26ba815b003a9386db78c4/01---YDSN-Slideshow-2.JPEG" /> https://billhealymedia.com/SOMEBODY-2 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:55:28 +0000 Bill Healy Media https://billhealymedia.com/SOMEBODY-2 SOMEBODY2020 When Shapearl Wells’s son Courtney is found outside a Chicago police station with a fatal bullet wound, Shapearl launches an investigation into her son’s murder. <img width="1303" height="1302" width_o="1303" height_o="1302" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1dd6b60b4a4e083fef7133faea3d2234d0a5802d50d88563c6fac78aba1710ac/somebody_art_1000x1000.jpg" data-mid="153388293" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1dd6b60b4a4e083fef7133faea3d2234d0a5802d50d88563c6fac78aba1710ac/somebody_art_1000x1000.jpg" /> https://billhealymedia.com/Hamilton-House Tue, 23 Aug 2022 04:28:50 +0000 Bill Healy Media https://billhealymedia.com/Hamilton-House HAMILTON HOUSE 2018Over the past 40 years, retired Chicago homicide detective Gerald Hamilton has taken in more than 70 foster kids at his South Shore home. <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63bb9f91a82d22d8996b518a06860c2ca0b9fa2a2ca8f1f1e6b10a88ebddc97f/Landing-Page-1_0000s_0031_HAMILTON-HOUSE-02---Bill-Healy.jpg" data-mid="167663633" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/63bb9f91a82d22d8996b518a06860c2ca0b9fa2a2ca8f1f1e6b10a88ebddc97f/Landing-Page-1_0000s_0031_HAMILTON-HOUSE-02---Bill-Healy.jpg" /> https://billhealymedia.com/16-Recovering Tue, 23 Aug 2022 03:59:09 +0000 Bill Healy Media https://billhealymedia.com/16-Recovering 16 &amp; RECOVERING 2021A 4-part MTV documentary series about the lives of students attending Northshore Recovery High School, a place where teenagers get help dealing with substance use as they work toward their degrees. <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/465e0daae1b010e377da894c77827690bffc7aa3b20d875058dceb5dca9171ee/Landing-Page-1_0000s_0004_mgid_arc_imageassetref_mtv.jpg" data-mid="167663512" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/465e0daae1b010e377da894c77827690bffc7aa3b20d875058dceb5dca9171ee/Landing-Page-1_0000s_0004_mgid_arc_imageassetref_mtv.jpg" /> https://billhealymedia.com/Closed-Schools Sun, 07 Aug 2022 23:29:01 +0000 Bill Healy Media https://billhealymedia.com/Closed-Schools CLOSED SCHOOLS2013 In 2013, the Chicago Board of Education permanently closed 50 public schools, the largest single round of school closings in recent American history. Nearly 12,000 students were displaced, mostly on the city’s South and West Sides. I visited all of the closed school buildings for a documentary photo project. The photos appeared on WBEZ, were featured in the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, were exhibited in a solo show at the IPaintMyMind Gallery, and used as part of two documentaries from Kartemquin Films. <img width="719" height="719" width_o="719" height_o="719" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c989a128b783cf14aca76d9557decd4c43552868bdd6646de2ff375b5b123cd/Lafayette-Students-square-By-Bill-Healy.jpg" data-mid="217832991" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/719/i/7c989a128b783cf14aca76d9557decd4c43552868bdd6646de2ff375b5b123cd/Lafayette-Students-square-By-Bill-Healy.jpg" /> https://billhealymedia.com/Closed-Schools-Background Tue, 23 Aug 2022 04:20:58 +0000 Bill Healy Media https://billhealymedia.com/Closed-Schools-Background https://billhealymedia.com/Harper-High-School Sun, 07 Aug 2022 23:29:01 +0000 Bill Healy Media https://billhealymedia.com/Harper-High-School HARPER HIGH SCHOOL201216-year-old Shakaki Asphy&nbsp; was one of 27 students from Harper High School shot in a single year. At her funeral, Harper Principal Leonetta Sanders talked about what went through her head when she heard this young woman’s life had been cut short. Several months later, This American Life sent Alex Kotlowitz, Ben Calhoun, and Linda Lutton to spend several months at Harper High School in Englewood. This American Life devoted two episodes to the school, examining how students and staff are impacted daily by gun violence. I photographed Harper for This American Life. <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6034d2f6f241f7e6713acd8d1aaf087ebf35694a0a14ff50a783606a500d7ad3/Landing-Page-1_0000s_0030_Haper-High-15---By-Bill-Healy.jpg" data-mid="167663660" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/6034d2f6f241f7e6713acd8d1aaf087ebf35694a0a14ff50a783606a500d7ad3/Landing-Page-1_0000s_0030_Haper-High-15---By-Bill-Healy.jpg" /> https://billhealymedia.com/Homeless-LGBT-Youth Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:55:20 +0000 Bill Healy Media https://billhealymedia.com/Homeless-LGBT-Youth HOMELESS LGBT YOUTH2012In 2012 I reported for four months on homeless and marginalized gay and transgender young people with Erica Demarest and Kate Sosin. The eight-week series ran in Chicago’s largest gay newspaper, The Windy City Times, under the direction of Tracy Baim, and won a Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club for Feature Writing. It was also nominated for an award for Outstanding Newspaper Series from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c01d3f2e8174ddf0fc5eef746608090b75baf659268fa5002d37c74b1c957588/Landing-Page-1_0000s_0007_HEADER-IMAGE.jpg" data-mid="167663701" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/c01d3f2e8174ddf0fc5eef746608090b75baf659268fa5002d37c74b1c957588/Landing-Page-1_0000s_0007_HEADER-IMAGE.jpg" /> https://billhealymedia.com/Steel-City-Academy Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:39:35 +0000 Bill Healy Media https://billhealymedia.com/Steel-City-Academy STEEL CITY2019Gary, Indiana is the home to Erin Addison, Evan Addison and Emma Arevalo. I worked with them on a podcast about a dump that was going to be built next to their school. <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/691bb404dd2f3eae0b8d20591ec5c077a0683dfa406fb7119f08e89cdc07c0f3/Landing-Page-1_0000s_0033_Erin-graduation-day.jpg" data-mid="167663870" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/691bb404dd2f3eae0b8d20591ec5c077a0683dfa406fb7119f08e89cdc07c0f3/Landing-Page-1_0000s_0033_Erin-graduation-day.jpg" />