A proposal to swap CHA land for a new South Loop high school is part of an old trend
For more than a decade, CHA has transferred land on former public housing sites for a CVS pharmacy, Mariano’s, Target and XS Tennis.
Natalie Moore
Reporter, Race, Class and Communities
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Freedom Rides bring reproductive rights activists to Chicago
Activists from Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana took the train this week to Chicago to highlight abortion bans in the South.
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Avondale residents weigh in as city officials seek development plans for the Belmont Triangle
According to organizers, Avondale residents say affordable housing is their top priority for the vacant, triangular-shaped lot.
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Author Margo Jefferson turns the lens on herself in new memoir
“Constructing A Nervous System” is a memoir and cultural criticism all wrapped into one.
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Chicago’s first citywide plan in half a century seeks to address structural inequality
We Will Chicago is a draft 10-year framework with goals and objectives designed to address inequities while creating thriving communities.
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New proposal seeks to attract jobs and housing around CTA bus stops and L stations
The proposed ordinance aims to draw investment near transit on Chicago’s South and West sides and stave off gentrification on the North Side.
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From police raids to reproductive justice, abortion history in Illinois is long and bumpy
Illinois now has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the country, but that hasn’t always been the case.
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A new food pantry is helping show the many ways a food desert can bloom
Windowless church basements often host food pantries. A Little Village group flipped the script and opened a beautiful one in a redone corner store.
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Private fundraising in Chicago Public Schools — who wins and who loses?
WBEZ found that fundraising by CPS schools has skyrocketed since 2010. And the big fundraising is by schools where most kids aren’t low income.
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Reproductive justice seeks to expand conversations beyond choice and abortion rights
Grounded in Black feminism and human rights, reproductive justice is about movement-building and centering people pushed to the margins.
