New report outlines the challenges facing Latino and Hispanic workers
The Metropolitan Planning Council and the Latino Policy Forum offers a glimpse at some obstacles facing Latino workers and some solutions.
Natalie Moore
Reporter, Race, Class and Communities
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Want to redevelop a massive warehouse in McKinley Park? The city is asking for proposals.
The guidelines call for preserving the façade while including affordable housing, green infrastructure, open space and public art.
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R. Kelly’s crimes leave many grappling with the question about what to do with his music
For years, R. Kelly’s music has been a staple at Black family gatherings, graduations and weddings. Should he be erased from the R&B canon?
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A new DuSable Museum exhibit allows visitors to sashay down an invisible yellow brick road
“The Color Is” by brothers Nick and Jack Cave is a tribute to the Emerald City Sequence in the 1978 movie version of “The Wiz.”
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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.
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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.
