Leaving LeClaire Courts for the last time
WBEZ senior editor Alden Loury reflects on the history of the LeClaire Courts public housing development, his childhood home.
Race, Class & Communities
The Race, Class & Communities Desk seeks to provide enterprise reporting on broad themes and trends related to race and income in the Chicago metropolitan area and to provide beat coverage of topical issues including housing, immigration, work/opportunity and demographics.
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Chicago’s LeClaire Courts will be redeveloped, but few former residents are eligible to return
Just 28 out of 402 former residents of the demolished public housing development remain eligible to return to the new LeClaire.
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The legacy of high school football coaching legend and education trailblazer J.W. Smith
Chicago football coaching legend J.W. Smith passed away at age 84.
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Food Friday: Black-owned coffee company sets up shop at Garfield Park Conservatory
Monday Coffee Company is pouring coffee, kombucha and more three days a week in the conservatory’s Horticulture Hall room.
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‘I wanted to slow it down’: Behind ABC’s retelling of the story of Emmett and Mamie Till
“Women of the Movement” creator and showrunner Marissa Jo Cerar discusses portraying Mamie Till Mobley’s quest for justice after her son was murdered.
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Little Calumet River makes the New York Times’ list of ‘Places for a Changed World’
One of the Chicago area’s best-kept secrets has made it out into the world thanks to the New York Times’ list of 52 “Places for a Changed World.”
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Black neighborhoods in Chicago have water debt 10 times higher than white areas
The report found that 20% of customers with delinquent water bills owe more in debt than a year’s worth of water bills.
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MLK’s memory is honored by demonstrators calling for the passage of voting rights bill
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would. have turned 93 on Jan. 15. He was just 39 when he was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.
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President Joe Biden says Americans must commit to MLK’s work
And Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said “our economy has never worked fairly for Black Americans — or really for any American of color.“
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Chicago requires nannies, caregivers and employers to have contracts
Here are the top things to know about Chicago’s new domestic workers ordinance.
