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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.
- News & Politics, News Apr 14, 2020
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Homeless during a pandemic
Chicagoans without shelter face the tough choice between the streets and shared air.
- Arts & Culture, Architecture Sep 18, 2019
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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.
- 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, 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.
- Music, Pitchfork Jul 17, 2018
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Open Mike Eagle teaches the Pitchfork crowd about Chicago public housing
The MC shares some of the research behind his album-length love letter to the Robert Taylor Homes.
- 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 Apr 14, 2018
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Donations pour in for Ida B. Wells monument in Chicago, but $180K still needed
The investigative journalist and civil rights activist could be one of the first women memorialized with a public monument in Chicago
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 21, 2018
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Low-income tenants say luxury developer is treating them like ‘bald-headed stepchildren’
Plans for redeveloping Atrium Village now call for segregating affordable housing into a separate, aging building
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Jan 30, 2018
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In High-Risers, Ben Austen delivers a long-overdue requiem for Cabrini-Green
A new history of the notorious project reminds us why public housing mattered to the people who lived there—and why it matters still.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2017
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National Public Housing Museum’s new show informs, memorializes, but doesn’t point fingers
The museum, slated to open on the west side in 2018, gives audiences a taste of its curatorial approach at Archeworks
- Film, Movie Review Oct 5, 2017
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In Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris, the public library is still a laboratory of democracy
The legendary documentary maker dives headfirst into the New York public library system.
- 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.
- Film, Movie Review May 11, 2017
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Boy, do we need Jane Jacobs now
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City profiles the author who battled urban expressways and high-rise housing.
- News & Politics, Feature May 3, 2017
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An East Chicago community dissolves in the fallout from a decades-long lead crisis
Residents are scattering across the region as they flee dangerously contaminated homes.
- 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.
- 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 29, 2016
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Donald Trump meets with the Polish-American community in surprise visit to Chicago, and other news
Also, Cubs playoff tickets are on track to be the most expensive in MLB history.
- 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.
- Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Aug 23, 2016
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A wish list for better walking and biking in the Black Metropolis
Transit advocate Ronnie Matthew Harris wants to eliminate barriers that physically divide Bronzeville.
- 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 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.
- Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Dec 16, 2015
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Altgeld Gardens residents campaign for better pedestrian facilities
Will a new plan finally bring a sidewalk to 130th Street?