The Metropolitan Planning Council unveils a strategic response to its own “cost of segregation” report
Tag: integration
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Looking back on the 1963 Loyola Ramblers, who changed NCAA basketball forever
Coach George Ireland’s team was the first to have more than two black starters.
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How northwest-siders are countering their NIMBY neighbors’ backlash against affordable housing
Galvanized by protests against an affordable housing proposal, Jefferson Park residents are looking to leverage their nascent organization for further community uplift.
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The CHA’s ‘supervoucher’ program: a desegregation strategy that never was
Politics killed this pro-integration program before it had a chance to succeed.
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The activist-doctor Quentin Young is still in
A new film project tries to capture the life of physician and activist Quentin Young.
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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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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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Fifty years ago: A basketball title and a school boycott for Chicago
In 1963, the Loyola Ramblers struck a blow for integration, while the Chicago Public Schools were preserving segregation.
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A model integrated community for Chicago to study
In Hope Meadows, a common purpose for residents—caring for each other—leads to real integration
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Racial integration is possible in Chicago
In a city with a sordid history of segregation, there are beacons of light and reasons to be thankful
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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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“Why are whites afraid of blacks?”
Eighty-six-year-old Geneva Banks talks about her life in the segregated south and the segregated north
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Chicago schools: even more segregated than they seem
There’s great potential for diverse schools in Cook County