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- News & Politics, News Mar 30, 2021
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'A city within a city'
Ten years after the last Cabrini-Green high-rise came down, former residents look back at the community that shaped them.
- Columns & Opinion, Opinion Nov 13, 2019
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Winners and losers in the war on drugs
When it comes to marijuana, big-money political donors win while the rest of us keep losing.
- Arts & Culture, Architecture Sep 18, 2019
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Residents reflect on rehabbed Lathrop Homes
“I suffered too much to live here.”
- News & Politics, Politics Feb 18, 2019
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Five challengers take on 46th Ward alderman Cappleman from the left
Gentrifying Uptown may be ready for the return of Helen Shiller’s spirit.
- News & Politics, Feature Dec 18, 2018
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Mayoral forum recap: all the answers, none of the bullshit
At back-to-back forums last week 11 candidates fielded questions and even provided some answers.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 24, 2018
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Lathrop launches lottery for affordable housing at revamped CHA complex
One of Chicago's oldest public housing developments is getting ready to reopen starting this summer on the north side.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2017
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How Chicago’s Section 8 voucher voting bloc could sway local elections
Households in the rental assistance program are a significant (and significantly overlooked) constituency in Chicago.
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 18, 2017
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The Chicago Housing Authority’s sleeping giant
The CHA provides Section 8 vouchers to tens of thousands of low-income households. Is the agency trying to keep them from realizing their collective power?
- News & Politics, Feature Sep 19, 2017
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The Plan for Transformation has transformed Chicago’s built environment
Over the last decade, photographer David Schalliol has been diligently documenting the demolition and reconstruction of the city’s public housing. Selections from the series are now on display as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jul 19, 2017
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Something Rotten, The Project(s), and eight more new stage shows to see now
A touring Broadway hit and a youth revival from American Theater Company are among this week's best bets.
- News & Politics, Feature Jul 5, 2017
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The National Public Housing Museum’s long journey home
After 20 years of battling for its building, the nascent institution’s most significant challenges lie ahead.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2017
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Armed with new data, the Chicago Housing Authority plans to give ‘supervouchers’ another try
When the CHA scaled back supervouchers, people with disabilities were hurt the most, a new study finds.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 4, 2017
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What will a Ben Carson-led HUD mean for the CHA?
The Chicago Housing Authority has more autonomy than other local agencies, but that won’t totally protect it from major Congressional budget cuts.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2016
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Court forces CHA to replace public housing lost at Lathrop on the north side
But remaining residents still worry about how long replacement units will be kept affordable.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 7, 2016
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Should cops provide first aid to people they shoot?
A debate has emerged as more and more videos show victims bleeding to death before an ambulance arrives.
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 5, 2016
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The Goldberg variation: High-rise public housing that works
Bertrand Goldberg’s Hilliard Homes opened as a model community in 1966. It still is today.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2016
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HUD proposal to tie Section 8 rents to zip codes worries housing advocates and the CHA—for different reasons
The CHA worries about mass displacement, but advocates worry voucher holders will be stuck where they are.
- News & Politics, Feature Aug 4, 2016
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Former LeClaire Courts residents are still fighting to go home
The CHA promised right of return. But seven years later the land is still undeveloped.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2016
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Alderman Joe Moore to housing activists: Get off my lawn or ‘that ordinance is never going to come out of my committee’
Video obtained by the Reader shows Moore threatening legislative retribution against activists calling on him to bring a public housing accountability bill to a vote.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2016
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Mayor Emanuel tries to sink CHA accountability ordinance that would force him to share power
The “Keeping the Promise” ordinance would grant the City Council considerable authority over the city’s housing authority.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 1, 2016
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A look back at Chicago’s public housing
On the 50th anniversary of a landmark desegregation lawsuit, the Reader and Blvck Vrchives offer this visual sampler of the city’s segregated housing past.
- News & Politics, Feature Apr 28, 2016
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The CHA’s ‘supervoucher’ program: a desegregation strategy that never was
Politics killed this pro-integration program before it had a chance to succeed.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 8, 2016
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Alderman Proco Joe calls for 'slushless' TIF district at Lathrop Homes
A first for Chicago: Alderman Proco Joe Moreno proposes a slushless TIF for the Lathrop Homes development.
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 12, 2014
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The fight to preserve a model public housing project
Lathrop Homes, on the western edge of Lincoln Park, has long been one of the Chicago Housing Authority's most diverse and successful properties. But today it's a shell of its former self.
- Film, Movie Review Feb 26, 2014
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Legacy: Beyond the yellow tape
Tod Lending's documentary looks at a west-side murder and the lives it changed.
