Chicago’s Department of Housing takes a major step toward transparency.
Tag: desegregation
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A look back at Chicago’s public housing
On the 50th anniversary of a landmark desegregation lawsuit, the Reader and Blvck Vrchives offer this visual sampler of the city’s segregated housing past.
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Chicago’s entire school desegregation strategy needs a turnaround
Merely tweaking the selective enrollment school formula won’t help the vast majority of African-American and Hispanic CPS students.
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The trials of a neighborhood high school
Wells Community Academy in West Town has many problems—and some rare successes. Can it survive?
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A better goal for CPS
A better goal for CPS: reduce the staggering proportion of low-income students
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Fifty years later, participants in the March on Washington still hoping for justice
Organizers of the Chicago contingent in the 1963 March on Washington say it’s time for another movement.
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A dream unrealized for African-Americans in Chicago
When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, most blacks here were living in poor, segregated neighborhoods. They still are.
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Trying to make separate equal
“By one means or another, our schools will be integrated,” federal judge Julius Hoffman said of Chicago schools in 1962. It was wishful thinking.
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Parodies lost: why satire must be banned from the Internet
A modest proposal for a serious problem
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Segregation and Obama’s second term
It’s never politically expedient for a president to fight segregation
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The tenacity of school segregation
The roots of our racially separate schools are deep
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The root cause of Chicago’s glut of murders
Until the city confronts its defining problem, the blood will keep flowing in its poor neighborhoods.
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Black Like Him
Fifty years ago John Howard Griffin traveled the south disguised as an African-American man.