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News & Politics, Feature Feb 3, 2021
Losing count

For nearly 20 years, the United States was on the verge of adjusting the census and eliminating the Black undercount.
- By Emeline Posner
- Tags: Feature, Census, adjustment, undercount, racism, segregation, history, civil rights

News & Politics, Feature Dec 2, 2020
Corporate culture at Chicago’s top evictor is ‘an absolute caste system’

Current and former employees of Pangea describe racism, segregation, and a "toxic" workplace.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Pangea, Pangea Real Estate, Pangea Ventures, Pangea Properties, and Pangea Equity Partners, evictions, eviction court, racism, office culture, toxic workplace, segregation

Arts & Culture, Feature Sep 15, 2020
The Folded Map Project shows a segregated city

Tonika Johnson’s multimedia project expands with a new film.
- By S. Nicole Lane
- Tags: Feature, The Folded Map Project, Tonika Johnson, Englewood, segregation, map twins, address pairs, City Bureau, Lane Tech, New York Times, Alec Soth, Housing Issue

Film, Small Screen Sep 14, 2020
‘Pioneering is dangerous’

Housing and the haunting of segregation in Lovecraft Country
- By Arionne Nettles
- Tags: Small Screen, Lovecraft Country, HBO, segregation, housing, Jurnee Smollett, Trumbull Park Homes, Betty Howard, Martin Luther King Jr, Chicago Freedom Movement

Arts & Culture, Book Review Jul 16, 2020
Recommended
The myth of housing mobility

The Voucher Promise chronicles the “illusions” of Section 8.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Book Review, Section 8, Section 8 vouchers, Housing Choice Vouchers, housing segregation, segregation, mobility, Eva Rosen, The Voucher Promise, Baltimore, racism, redlining, blockbusting, landlords, tenants, housing policy, sociology, urban sociology, classism, Recommended

Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 24, 2020
Good news week

Look on the bright side, Chicago: Burke, Lipinski, and Conway lost!
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Bill Conway, Ed Burke, Dan Lipinski, Aaron Ortiz, Marie Newman, Rahm Emanuel, segregation, Evanston Township High School

News & Politics, News Nov 7, 2019
New data portal documents developers’ compliance with affordable housing rules

Chicago’s Department of Housing takes a major step toward transparency.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Affordable Requirements Ordinance, ARO, inclusionary zoning, affordable housing, affordable housing development, Department of Housing, Marisa Novara, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Lori Lightfoot, segregation, desegregation, zoning, real estate, real estate development, affordable housing data, Leah Levinger, Chicago Housing Initiative, DePaul Institute for Housing Studies, Low-Income Housing Trust Fund

News & Politics, News Oct 17, 2019
Slideshow
Striking teachers say paychecks are the least of their problems

At an Englewood elementary school, teachers and staff describe working conditions that hurt kids most.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Chicago teacher strike, Chicago Teachers Union, teacher strike, teachers strike, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Lori Lightfoot, Chicago Public Schools, Carrie Jacobs Bond Elementary School, Bond Elementary School, Englewood, neighborhood schools, school funding, school funding equity, poverty, segregation, Slideshow

Arts & Culture, Architecture Sep 18, 2019
Power, violence, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial

This year may end the unstoppable homage to dead white men and narratives that neglect how architecture has victimized communities of color.
- By Anjulie Rao
- Tags: Architecture, Chicago Architecture Biennial, segregation, redlining, public housing, skyscrapers, environment, gun violence, violence, colonization, gentrification, displacement

Arts & Culture, Architecture Sep 18, 2019
Residents reflect on rehabbed Lathrop Homes

“I suffered too much to live here.”
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Architecture, Lathrop Homes, public housing, Chicago Housing Authority, CHA, Lathrop redevelopment, J.L. Gross, Cindy Scott, Cynthia Scott, Joseph Burrell, Related Midwest, mixed-income housing, Plan for Transformation, gentrification, Lincoln Park, Chicago River, segregation

City Life, Staycation Jul 10, 2019
From a landmark White Castle to a model town to a collection of giant sculptures—see it all on the Metra Electric District line

Adventure aboard the commuter train
- By Max Grinnell
- Tags: Staycation, Metra Electric District Line, Pullman, South Shore, McCormick Place, McCormick Bird Sanctuary, White Castle #16, Chef Luciano Chicken & Kitchen, South Shore Cultural Center, Blues Brothers, Parrot Cage Restaurant, Rainbow Beach Park, David Woodhouse, segregation, George Pullman, Arcade Park, Hotel Florence, Market Hall, Historic Pullman Foundation, Pullman National Monument Office, National Park Service, Kathy Schneider, Clock Tower, Argus Brewery, Ed Paschke, University Park, Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Governors State University, Mark di Suvero, Jeff Stevenson, Yes! For Lady Day, Mary Miss, Martin Puryear, Tony Tasset, Paul

Arts & Culture, Architecture Mar 22, 2019
Survival of the starter home

Could a design contest help replenish Chicago’s affordable housing stock?
- By Lauren Styx
- Tags: Architecture, News, Architecture, affordable housing, bungalow, Chicago, segregation, Bronzeville, West Humboldt Park

News & Politics, Feature Jan 24, 2019
Is Chicago’s legacy of segregation causing a reverse Great Migration?

Black Chicagoans are leaving the city, and an unexamined history of racial discrimination may be to blame.
- By Pete Saunders
- Tags: Feature, Great Migration, African-Americans, Chicago segregation, segregation

Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2018
Chicago corruption for sightseers: Walking tours show seedy underbelly of the city’s politics

"I lure them in with promises of wacky Blagojevich stories, and leave them with civics," journalist Paul Dailing muses.
- By Matt Harvey
- Tags: Arts, History, News, Politics, The Trump Era, Paul, Dailing, Paul Dailing, corruption, Chicago, Chicago corruption, walking tour, tours, tour, Sun-Times, Brehon Pub, 1001 Chicago Afternoons, Kane County, Aurora Beacon, Aurora, the Triibe, Triibe, redlining, housing, segregation, Chicago Lawyer, Chicago Lawyer magazine, Mirage Tavern, Big Bill Thompson, Willie Cochran, Ed Burke, Tinley Park, riverboat, Shoreline tours

Blogs, Bleader May 15, 2018
Chicago's civic and business elite put on epic display of wokeness, roll out racial equity plan

The Metropolitan Planning Council unveils a strategic response to its own "cost of segregation" report
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Segregation, Segregation, racial justice, integration, Metropolitan Planning Council, Marisa Novara, Toni Preckwinkle, Chicago Department of Public Health, Julie Morita, Joe Neri, IFF, community development financial institution, racial equity, inequality, money bail, Cook County Land Bank

Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2018
Why renters should care about the Cook County assessor's race

Dramatic changes in property tax assessment have a deep impact on renters, assessor candidate Fritz Kaegi says.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Politics, TAGS: Fritz Kaegi, Joseph Berrios, Cook County Assessor, politics, elections, Democratic primary, property taxes, social justice, Robert Caro, Robert Moses, The Power Broker, inequality, segregation, race, poverty, machine politics, corruption, Russia

Blogs, Bleader Jan 16, 2018
Two gubernatorial candidates support repealing Illinois’s rent control ban

J.B. Pritzker and Daniel Biss both say the 1997 law needs to go.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Politics, Housing, Rent control, rent regulation, J.B. Pritzker, Daniel Biss, eviction, Rent Control Preemption Act, Lift the Ban coalition, Will Guzzardi, Bronzeville, Pilsen, gentrification, Albany Park, Uptown. Jawanza Malone, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Realtors, inequality, affordable housing, segregation

Blogs, Bleader Jan 5, 2018
How’s Chicago supposed to desegregate when developments with affordable housing can be blocked by aldermen on a whim?

Yet another planned development with affordable units is killed on the northwest side.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Segregation, Housing, Anthony Napolitano, 41st Ward, affordable housing, GlenStar, O’Hare, Rand Diamond, Larry Debb, Jack George, Danny Solis, 45th Ward, John Arena, zoning, Jefferson Park, housing, development, gentrification, Neighbors for Affordable Housing, Department of Planning and Development, Kate Walz, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Northwest Side Unite, Jefferson Park Neighborhood Association, Tom Tunney, 44th Ward, segregation, Affordable Requirements Ordinance, Plan Commission, zoning committee, Sara Gronkiewicz-Doran, Chicago Public Schools, Dirksen Elementary

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Oct 9, 2017
Recommended
Gentrifier is a positive step forward in the gentrification debate

A new book succeeds by avoiding simple solutions to complicated problems.
- By Tanner Howard
- Tags: Lit Feature, Gentrifier, University of Toronto Press, gentrification, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, Marc Lamont Hill, urban planning, poverty, segregation, books, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Aug 15, 2017
How northwest-siders are countering their NIMBY neighbors’ backlash against affordable housing

Galvanized by protests against an affordable housing proposal, Jefferson Park residents are looking to leverage their nascent organization for further community uplift.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Politics, Jefferson Park, affordable housing, Neighbors for Affordable Housing in Jefferson Park, segregation, integration, Metropolitan Area Housing Alliance, Gale Cincotta, John Arena, Edwin Fifielski, northwest side, Northwest Side GOP, Jefferson Park Neighborhood Association, Chicago Housing Initiative, Disability Rights Action Coalition for Housing

Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2017
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.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Housing, CHA, Chicago Housing Authority, Supervouchers, Rachael Tovar, segregation, Housing Choice Vouchers, Section 8, disability, disability accessibility, Policy Research Team, Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance, affordable housing, Jefferson Park, Molly Sullivan, University of Chicago

Blogs, Bleader May 17, 2017
Video
Alderman Carrie Austin slams Rauner for Chicago Public Schools’ financial crisis, and other news

Also, tickets to the June 3 U2 concert at Soldier Field are the most in-demand in the nation on Stubhub.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Chicago Public Schools, Illinois, Bruce Rauner, Rahm Emanuel, racial inequality, segregation, racism, race issues, University of Illinois at Chicago, Barbara Flynn Currie, budget impasse, state budget, Mike Madigan, Arthur Turner, Lou Lang, Jay Hoffman, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois House of Representatives, restaurant openings, Nutella Cafe, Eataly, Millennium Park, Travis Scott, Lollapalooza, Arkansas, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2017
Video
Report: The demand for legal guns is on the rise, and other Chicago news

Also, a study has linked high blood pressure to segregated neighborhoods.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, gun violence, concealed carry, gun laws, Illinois State Rifle Association, Union League Club of Chicago, Northwestern University, public health, segregation, Obama Foundation, George Lucas, Barack Obama, Jordan Howard, Anna Valencia, Oriole, Noah Sandoval, Lisa Madigan, Mike Madigan, Kuma's Corner, restaurant openings, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2017
The ironies and contradictions of the New York Times event on Chicago gun violence

Journalists, philanthropists, top cops, and academics spend a luxurious evening discussing what to do about young men shooting each other.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Criminal Justice, Gun violence, poverty, segregation, New York Times, crime, Chicago Police Department, CPD, Kim Foxx, Cook County state’s attorney, Kenneth Johnson, Arne Duncan, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, school closures, Emerson Collective, University of Chicago Crime Lab, Jens Ludwig, Laquan McDonald, Jason Van Dyke

Blogs, Bleader Apr 28, 2017
Video
Kim Foxx drafts legislation allowing a second review of fatal police shootings, and other Chicago news

Also, the Chicago Teachers Union is planning a May Day rally.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Kim Foxx, Cook County State's Attorney's Office, police issues, police-involved shootings, Rahm Emanuel, Donald Trump, taxes, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Public Schools, May Day, United Airlines, O'Hare International Airport, David Dao, Oscar Munoz, nightlife, racism, segregation, Giant, Ace Hotel, restaurant openings, Video

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