Stories tagged Chicago

Teaching Youth to Tell Their Stories

Chicago’s New Housing Commissioner Brings a Racial Equity Lens to Planning and Policy

New Clothing Manufacturing Co-Op Provides Opportunity, Not Charity, to Immigrant and Refugee Women

Chicago’s Land Bank Growing Up to Larger, Mixed-Use Projects

How the Creative Placemaking Tide Lifts All Community Boats

Economics in Brief: How Land Contracts Stole $4 Billion in Wealth from Black Chicagoans

In Chicago, Mission-Based Investments Don’t Offset Uneven Flow of Private Money

Chicago Opens New Libraries and Affordable Housing Projects After Design Competition

Economics in Brief: Where the Money Goes in Chicago

How Chicago’s South Side Is Creating the ‘Un’ High Line

This Lawsuit Is Putting a Racial Equity Lens on Economic Development Incentives

New Law Prevents Housing Discrimination for Returning Citizens in Cook County

Chicago’s Resiliency Plan Aims for Equity

What’s Making Development Work for Chicago’s 9th Ward

How More Black Commercial Developers Could Change Chicago

Will Obama’s Presidential Center Invigorate or Gentrify Chicago’s South Side?