Perspectives: The Powers That Be
What it’ll take to root out discriminatory property taxes in Cook County
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Fritz Kaegi is challenging Assessor Joe Berrios over an opaque system found to overtax low-income neighborhoods.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
What’s at stake for Chicago and Illinois under President Trump
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Here’s a roundup of how the Trump administration’s stated policy goals would interact with local laws on immigrant and religious protections, healthcare, housing, education and law enforcement.
Beyond 95th Street
Far South Side homeowners question Red Line extension’s impact on property values
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The Chicago Transit Authority plans to acquire some homes to extend the “L” and affected residents want to ensure they’re fairly compensated in neighborhoods that have been especially slow to recover from the housing crash.
Government and Politics
To remove lead pipes, Chicago can learn from Madison’s example
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Chicago has more lead water service lines than any other U.S. municipality, and replacing them would be a complicated and costly project. But years ago, the city of Madison, Wis., removed all of its lead pipes and found a way to pay for it.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Mayor’s comments reveal hypocrisy of his administration’s housing policies
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By both holding back vouchers and planning to cut public housing units from Lathrop Homes, CHA is failing to expand opportunities for poor families.
Chicago Freedom Movement 50
Inside the Contract Buyers League’s fight against housing discrimination
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An excerpt from an upcoming book details the alliances that bolstered the campaign against predatory real estate practices in Chicago during the 1960s.
Chicago Freedom Movement 50
The Chicago Freedom Movement and the fight for fair lending
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The co-editor of an upcoming book recounts the outset of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Union to End Slums campaign in Chicago.
Gallery
A community out in the cold
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Even during the winter, home for some Chicagoans is a viaduct or a park bench.
Chicago Freedom Movement 50
The roots of the Chicago Freedom Movement
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An upcoming book assesses the impact of Martin Luther King Jr.’s efforts to bring the civil rights movement to Chicago through a campaign for open housing.
Employment and Labor
At $10 an hour, Chicago’s minimum wage is not enough to live on
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A bump in Chicago’s minimum wage to $10 per hour on July 1 still won’t be enough to support a family, according to a living wage calculator that measures the cost of living in cities across the nation.