Chicago

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  1/11/2023
  

  50 Years at Cook County Hospital Prove Abortion is Healthcare

  by Amy Zanoni

  Abortion rights activists have focused on horror stories of the pre-Roe era as cautionary tales, but the history of public hospitals since Roe shows that real reproductive freedom requires expanded access to care and a robust social safety net. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/23/2022
  

  Taking a Longer View, the Crime Spike Isn't a Mystery, but Solutions aren't Easy Enough for Politicians

  by Patrick Sharkey

  Crime is a whole-society problem that is experienced locally; solutions require deep reforms and can't be subjected to the shifting attention of politicians in an election year. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/20/2022
  

  Evanston, Illinois Passed a Reparations Program. Can its Liberal Present Confront the Segregated Past?

  by Kari Lydersen

  The Chicago suburb has focused on progams to rectify the harms caused by discrete city actions, specifically generations of housing discrimination that limited Black wealth gains from real estate. Can it make a difference? Will local taxpayers support it? 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/8/2022
  

  Michael Hines Recovers the Legacy of Black Educator Madeline Morgan

  The pioneering educator recognized that Black students needed a curriculum that transmitted knowledge but also countered the prevailing ideology of racial hierarchy. A new biography shows how progress in education is never fully secure. 

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• 5/1/2022
  

  High Crimes and Lingering Consequences: How Land Sale Contracts Looted Black Wealth and Gutted Chicago Communities

  by Tiff Beatty

  Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson is creating public installations documenting properties where Black residents were subjected to predatory contract home sales, and connecting the past to the present struggles of the city's south and west sides.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  3/23/2022
  

  Planning For The People Y Qué? From Advocacy Planners To Hardcore Punks

  by Mike Amezcua

  "Punk fliers are planning documents. Not the official kind produced by city planning departments, of course, nor the grassroots plans by neighborhood activists resisting investment capital and gentrification. But these fliers contain a planning schema all the same."

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• SOURCE: Fox 32
  3/14/2022
  

  Chicago's Ukrainian Community Includes Many Who Escaped WWII; They See a Repeated Nightmare

  The Ukrainian community in Chicago includes many who fled either Nazi or Stalinist forces as children 80 years ago. 

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• SOURCE: Hyde Park Herald
  3/3/2022
  

  Chicago Landmarks Commission Authorizes $250,000 for Rehab of Muddy Waters's House

  The grant advances the renovation of the house on Chicago's south side for use as a museum and educational space. 

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• SOURCE: WTTW
  2/26/2022
  

  Historian Mike Amezcua on "Making Mexican Chicago"

  Both industry and local realtors were key players in the development of La Villita in southwest Chicago. 

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• SOURCE: Union of Concerned Scientists
  2/15/2022
  

  For Black History Month, Honor the Environmental Justice Activism of Hazel Johnson

  Hazel Johnson was pushed to environmental justice activism when her husband's cancer death made her aware of the toll of industrial pollution on her Chicago neighborhood. Today, it remains important to connect environmental protection and social justice.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  1/3/2021
  

  A Blueprint for Leadership from 1980s Chicago

  by Brentin Mock

  Harold Washington faced stiff resistance from his own party when he became Chicago's first Black mayor in 1983; his response stressing public infrastructure and voting rights foreshadowed the Biden administration's efforts to overcome intransigence and obstructionism. 

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  12/15/2021
  

  Puerto Rican History Deserves More than a Mural

  by Jacqueline Lazú

  Instead of rehashing "West Side Story," Hollywood should tell the story of Chicago's Young Lords Organization. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/17/2021
  

  Timuel Black, 102: Historian and Organizer of Black Chicago

  Timuel Black mobilized the political power of the predominantly Black South Side of Chicago, taught others — including a young Barack Obama — how to do the same, and in his final decades compiled oral histories giving voice to his community’s Black working class.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
  10/13/2021
  

  Timuel Black, Historian and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 102

  Among those expressing sadness at Mr. Black’s death was Barack Obama, who said “the city of Chicago and the world lost an icon with the passing of Timuel Black."

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• SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
  10/8/2021
  

  How the Chicago Fire Changed the City's Architecture

  Chicago-based historians D. Bradford Hunt and Dominic Pacyga argue that the Great Fire of 1871 did impact the city by inaugurating an age of big renewal plans, as well as through the city's prized architecture and parks. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/6/2021
  

  "We All Know Where We Came From": 2021 White Sox Carry on History of Latino Baseball

  The Chicago White Sox have returned to the baseball postseason in part because of their core of players from Latin America, which has long been a trademark of the club. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  9/9/2021
  

  In Slasher Film ‘Candyman,’ the Horror Is U.S. Housing Policy

  by Brentin Mock

  “Candyman isn't the only ghost in this show,” says Stanford Carpenter, a cultural anthropologist based in Chicago. “The other ghost is Cabrini-Green. In both cases, the thing that makes them scary is that they were made that way by white systemic racism.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/6/2021
  

  Dawn Turner Looks Back on Her ’70s Girlhood, and Those Who Got Left Behind

  "In episodic chapters that read like self-contained short stories woven together into a whole, Turner seeks to understand how three Black girls with very similar aspirations ended up with wildly divergent fates."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/7/2021
  

  Chicago Versus Lake Michigan

  The history of Chicago is defined by efforts to tame water for navigation, sanitation, and drinking. Climate change is raising the stakes of that battle. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  6/8/2021
  

  When Monuments Go Bad

  Chicago is engaging in a broad and unprecedented study of the city's monuments and the political and cultural implications of memorialization in public space. Will this help avoid the bitter controversies and protests that have erupted in other cities?