
July 16, 2025
2025 National Justice Convening
Chicago Beyond's National Justice Convening, a National Conversation on Holistic Safety in Corrections will be held on October 29-30, 2025 in Chicago. Thi
Read MoreBy Lisa Schencke
Jeanine Valrie Logan sat in traffic for nearly two hours while she was in labor with her third child.
Logan was determined to have her daughter at a birth center — a type of small facility focused on childbirth, often staffed by midwives. But there weren’t any birth centers near her home in the south suburbs, so she traveled nearly 30 miles to Berwyn.
“I’m not an anomaly,” Logan said, of the time it took her to get to the birth center. “People deserve to have that access in their own community.”
Now, six years later, Logan is working to make that belief a reality. Logan, who is a certified nurse midwife, worked with lawmakers in recent years to expand the number of birth centers allowed in Illinois, and she is seeking permission from a state board to open a new birth center on the South Side of Chicago.
July 16, 2025
Chicago Beyond's National Justice Convening, a National Conversation on Holistic Safety in Corrections will be held on October 29-30, 2025 in Chicago. Thi
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Soraya DosSantos received a three-year, unrestricted investment through Chicago Beyond’s Fellowship for Black Maternal Health, she can deepen her work, expand her vision, and continue raising awareness for the gaps in care many women and families are fa
Read MoreJune 17, 2025
Chicago Beyond, a national philanthropic organization that addresses systemic inequity by backing solutions led by those closest to the issues, hosted birth justice leaders as part of its Fellowship for Black Maternal Health in Chicago, IL.
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