Economic Development
Obama Center Watch: A federal review, a push for a community benefits agreement, and a lawsuit appeal
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Here’s everything you need to know about the latest developments and challenges to the Obama Presidential Center.
affordable housing
What you need to know about Pilsen’s proposed historic landmark district
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Will creating a landmark designation help or hurt longtime residents’ ability to stay in the neighborhood?
Perspectives
Getting poorer while working harder: The ‘cliff effect’
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Stressing out about potentially losing benefits can prolong financial instability. Solving this problem will help low-paid workers and everyone else.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
In 232-page report, Lightfoot’s transition tees up housing initiatives, TIF reform
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All of the proposals are important, but addressing the affordable housing shortfall will require that the Chicago Housing Authority return to its original mission of directly providing housing.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Where will the jobs go? Next chapter in Lincoln Yards saga offers few answers
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With a new mayor and a lawsuit challenging the Lincoln Yards TIF, basic questions about the future of the industrial corridor may be open again.
Chicago Election 2019
What do we do with all those campaign signs? Young Chicago artists have an answer
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The city normally removes campaign signs from public property, but otherwise they become eye sores that residents have to clean up themselves.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
In final act, Emanuel cements legacy of tolerating corruption, promoting segregation
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The outgoing mayor’s agenda to advance Lincoln Yards, the 78, and a new police academy shows no break with his record of ignoring community and ethical concerns to subsidize gentrification.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Ald. Joe Moore backs developer over displaced tenants in Rogers Park
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The City Council housing committee chairman went above and beyond his record of siding with landlords by filing an affidavit supporting a building owner who has donated thousands to his campaign.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
To preserve SRO’s as affordable housing, Chicago needs to step it up
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Recent efforts to preserve three single-room occupancy hotels in Uptown reveal the city’s lukewarm commitment to maintaining them as a safety net for low-income tenants.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
The mayoral housing forum that almost wasn’t
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The conversation on affordable housing in Chicago is changing, especially among mayoral candidates, but the realtors lobby still holds great sway.