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The shot that brought the projects down, part five of five

by Mick Dumke October 16, 2012October 15, 2021

How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part five of five

Posted inBlogs

The shot that brought the projects down, part four of five

by Mick Dumke October 15, 2012October 15, 2021

How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part four of five

Posted inBlogs

The shot that brought the projects down, part three of five

by Mick Dumke October 14, 2012October 15, 2021

How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part three of five

Posted inBlogs

The shot that brought the projects down, part two of five

by Mick Dumke October 13, 2012October 15, 2021

How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part two of five

Posted inBlogs

The shot that brought the projects down, part one of five

by Mick Dumke October 12, 2012October 14, 2021

How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide

Posted inBlogs

CHA sitting on thousands of empty units?

by Deanna Isaacs September 19, 2011August 19, 2021

Chicago Housing Initiative says Chicago Housing Authority, with a huge list of applicants, has a glut of vacant units.

Posted inNews & Politics

Huberman’s Miracle

by Ben Joravsky July 8, 2010August 19, 2021

A sop to angry parents—and a slap at the teachers’ union

Posted inBlogs

“The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing”

by Jerome Ludwig October 6, 2009August 19, 2021

Roosevelt prof D. Bradford Hunt discusses his book on public housing today at the Harold Washington Library Center.

Mothers manning the elevators at the Henry Horner Homes
Posted inColumns & Opinion

They Didn’t Think of the Children

by Deanna Isaacs September 24, 2009August 19, 2021

D. Bradford Hunt’s study of the Chicago Housing Authority, Blueprint for Disaster, argues that public housing projects like Cabrini-Green failed because they put too many children in hard-to-access towers.

Posted inBlogs

For all those lies that you told, boy

by Whet Moser July 8, 2008August 19, 2021

So that’s why the CHA’s Plan for Transformation is taking so long.

Posted inBlogs

Beyond The Wire

by Whet Moser February 1, 2008August 19, 2021

Why Long Haul Productions belongs in any list of Chicago’s finest journalistic institutions.

Posted inNews & Politics

State Representatives: Wheeler-Dealers for Change

by Mick Dumke January 31, 2008August 19, 2021

In a key lakefront district, the candidates for state rep are promising to change the game by playing the game.

Posted inBlogs

The decline of the decline of public housing

by Whet Moser July 5, 2007August 19, 2021

Is the city breaking its promise to relocate displaced public housing residents?

Posted inBlogs

Steve Rhodes peels the Tribune’s editorial onion on Daley II and finds no center there, only tears

by Harold Henderson July 9, 2006August 19, 2021

Best local political analysis not published in the Reader.

Posted inNews & Politics

The Plot to Destroy North Kenwood

by Robert McClory October 14, 1993August 20, 2021

That’s probably an overstatement. But Mary Bordelon isn’t taking any chances.

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