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.
Perspectives
South and West Side WIC food benefit recipients face restrictions North Side families do not
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The unusual and unfair way Chicago grants coupons for the Women, Infants, and Children program perpetuates an ugly racial sentiment that Black and Latinx families don’t know what’s best for their kids.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
What’s next for the Obama Center and South Shore golf course projects?
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Objections and proposed changes to the major South Side developments are an opportunity for Mayor Lori Lightfoot to demonstrate her promises of openness and accountability.
Chicago Election 2019
A changing political ‘machine’ bares itself in Englewood rematch
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The little-followed 16th Ward race highlights the shifting influence of ward committeemen, a position long known to drive patronage and corruption in Chicago politics.
Chicago Election 2019
High turnover of aldermen stymies development in Chicago’s 7th Ward
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Candidates for the South Side ward agree on community needs, but will the next alderman stick around long enough to see them through? History says no.
Economic Development
Target opens stores in younger, wealthier, white neighborhoods as it pulls out of South Side
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Protests are planned for Black Friday in response to retailer closing two South Side locations.
Perspectives
Food deserts persist in Chicago despite more supermarkets
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Most new grocery stores were built in areas with plentiful access in recent years, and those added to high-need areas were not enough to mitigate the effects of longstanding disinvestment and segregation, according to a new study.
Beyond 95th Street
Instead of extending the Red Line, some see promise in the Metra Electric
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Converting the Metra Electric District main line into rapid transit could be a quicker, cheaper way to improve transit on the South Side than building more Red Line stations, advocates say.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
Community benefits coalition wants to include all the players, not just Obama Foundation
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Organizers aim to avert gentrification brought on by the Obama library through an ordinance that would require the city and the University of Chicago to protect and support nearby residents.
Criminal Justice
U. of C. police shooting came at time of increased stops, continued disparities
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In the months before the off-campus shooting of student Charles Thomas, University of Chicago police sharply stepped-up proactive stops, overwhelmingly targeting people of color, our analysis shows.