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Home » Mary Pattillo

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Posted inBlogs

Ta-Nehisi Coates didn’t come here to give you any answers

by Maya Dukmasova February 2, 2017August 18, 2021

The writer and public intellectual fielded questions from a packed audience in Evanston Tuesday night, but said he had few answers to offer about journalism in the age of Trump.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Mary Pattillo’s charter school research shows south-side students don’t really have a choice

by Ben Joravsky October 21, 2015August 18, 2021

Charter school parents in the sociologist’s study still had more money and resources than their public school peers.

Lathrop Homes, one of the country's first public housing developments and the second in Chicago, was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
Posted inNews & Politics

The fight to preserve a model public housing project

by Maya Dukmasova June 12, 2014August 18, 2021

Lathrop Homes has long been one of CHA’s most diverse and successful properties. But today it’s a shell of its former self.

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