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Latisha Bolden recently learned that she and her family are going to have to leave her Woodlawn apartment after the building was sold to a new owner, who intends to renovate. She's one of many residents facing displacement in recent years as investors have swooped into the area, which has turned hot with the construction of the nearby Obama Presidential Center. (Credit: Victor Hilitski/For Illinois Answers Project)

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Binghui Huang is an investigative reporter covering economic and equity issues in Chicago. She previously covered health and business at the Indianapolis Star. With more than a decade in local news, she has uncovered dangerous carcinogenic pollution by a medical device maker, investigated worker abuses in RV factories and revealed shoddy work by workplace safety inspectors due to decades of underfunding and cuts to the department. Her reporting has prompted changes in business practices, legislative reform and increased funding to critical programs.

Sidnee King Pineda joined the Illinois Answers Project (BGA) in late 2020 as an investigative reporter covering the impacts of Chicago, Cook County and Illinois government action on communities of color. Sidnee is a metro Detroit native who received her master's degree from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism just before joining the BGA. She is also a proud graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C. She joined The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship last year. You can find some of Sidnee's previous work published in outlets like The Washington Post, Vox.com, and the Michigan Chronicle.