- News & Features, Feature, Oct 31, 2012
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The link between lead poisoning and underperforming students
With mounting evidence that lead poisoning results in lower test scores, more children repeating grades, and worse, why has so little been done in Chicago to reverse the damage?
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 16, 2012
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The shot that brought the projects down, part five of five
How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part five of five
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 15, 2012
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The shot that brought the projects down, part four of five
How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part four of five
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 14, 2012
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The shot that brought the projects down, part three of five
How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part three of five
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 13, 2012
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The shot that brought the projects down, part two of five
How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part two of five
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 12, 2012
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The shot that brought the projects down, part one of five
How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide
- News & Features, Feature, Dec 22, 2011
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Jay Travis, the organizer
'The notion that you could use your own power to stand up for yourself—and that you could win—captured my imagination'
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 19, 2011
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CHA sitting on thousands of empty units?
Chicago Housing Initiative says Chicago Housing Authority, with a huge list of applicants, has a glut of vacant units.
- Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture, Jun 23, 2011
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Best film about Chicago
Public Housing
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 7, 2011
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It's so hot right now
- Blogs, Bleader, May 27, 2011
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Rod Blagojevich was not good in Little League
- Blogs, Bleader, May 4, 2011
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Up Is Down and Love Is Everywhere at Daley's Last City Council Meeting
Mayor Daley presided over his last City Council meeting pretty much the same way he presided over the others for 22 years.
- News & Features, Chicago Reader at Forty, Apr 28, 2011
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1987
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- News & Features, Politics, Apr 7, 2011
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Racial Migration in the Strangest Locations
U.S. Census data show historically black wards growing increasingly white.
- Galleries & Museums, Art Feature, Mar 24, 2011
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As the Walls Come Down
Artist Jan Tichy plans to memorialize Cabrini-Green as it falls.
- News & Features, Politics, Feb 10, 2011
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Separate, Unequal, and Ignored
Racial segregation remains Chicago's most fundamental problem. Why isn't it an issue in the mayor's race?
- News & Features, Politics, Jul 8, 2010
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Huberman’s Miracle
A sop to angry parents—and a slap at the teachers' union
- News & Features, Politics, Nov 19, 2009
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Transparency in Action
How a bill intended to expand the state Freedom of Information Act was bastardized to expand the mayor's shadow budget
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 6, 2009
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"The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing"
Roosevelt prof D. Bradford Hunt discusses his book on public housing today at the Harold Washington Library Center.
- News & Features, The Arts, Sep 24, 2009
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They Didn't Think of the Children
D. Bradford Hunt's new book on the Chicago Housing Authority attributes the failure of high-rise housing projects to a "concentration of people under 21 years old [that] was unprecedented in the urban experience."
