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Home » redlining

Tag: redlining

Posted inArts & Culture

The myth of housing mobility

by Maya Dukmasova July 16, 2020August 18, 2021

The Voucher Promise chronicles the “illusions” of Section 8.

Posted inArts & Culture

Power, violence, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial

by Anjulie Rao September 18, 2019August 18, 2021

This year may end the unstoppable homage to dead white men and narratives that neglect how architecture has victimized communities of color.

Posted inFilm

The Windy City International Film Festival wants to introduce Chicago moviemakers to the world

by Marissa De La Cerda July 17, 2019August 18, 2021

When an actor and director couldn’t find a place to screen their movie here, they started their own festival.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago corruption for sightseers: Walking tours show seedy underbelly of the city’s politics

by Matt Harvey June 14, 2018August 18, 2021

“I lure them in with promises of wacky Blagojevich stories, and leave them with civics,” journalist Paul Dailing muses.

Posted inArts & Culture

Redlined tells story of one of the last white families in West Garfield Park

by Annie Howard April 10, 2018August 18, 2021

Linda Gartz’s memoir also offers some insight into the blindness of neighborhood residents to racial discrimination and disinvestment.

Posted inNews & Politics

The infamous practice of contract selling is back in Chicago

by Rebecca Burns March 1, 2017August 18, 2021

Wall Street-backed firms are duping would-be homebuyers, 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. and west-side activists fought against housing discrimination.

Posted inBlogs

It’s time, finally, to discuss reparations for African-Americans

by Steve Bogira May 28, 2014August 18, 2021

“We may find that the country can never fully repay African Americans,” Ta-Nehisi Coates writes. “But we stand to discover much about ourselves in such a discussion.”

Posted inBlogs

How Chicago should honor Mandela

by Steve Bogira December 6, 2013August 19, 2021

Apartheid wasn’t just a South African thing.

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