As Vice Chair of the Chicago Housing Authority, Rahm Emanuel helped develop the CHA's Plan for Transformation, which made centrally located real estate available for high-end developers, while pushing large numbers of poor people into already stressed neighborhoods. Demolition of public housing units has vastly outpaced the promised construction of new ones; former high-rise housing residents are left to fend for themselves, scattered to the suburbs—far from jobs—or resegregated into predominantly low-income and minority neighborhoods.
This is the beginning of a blog about Chicago, urban policy, and culture.
- CHA Drive By Project now underway
- Chicago Bakery Workers Laid Off Without Notice
- Wants and Needs Auction Preview!
- Where is the front line?
- 5 questions about Occupy Chicago
- Study: O’Hare, Midway “Living Wage Loophole” costing Chicago
- AREA Chicago’s “Drive By” project
- Move the Money
- Toward a City-Wide Movement-Making Center
- Take Back Chicago Today
- Garden on Rails
- Video from Occupy Chicago
- What is this G8 thing people are talking about, and why should I care?
- Illinois Federation of Teachers: A More Just DREAM Act
- Conversations with Khaled M. Part 3
- Conversations with Khaled M. Part 2
- Conversations with Khaled M. Part 1
- Food and migration
- Creating Crime Waves
- Chicago Fair Food taking on Trader Joes
- Warehouse workers to address retaliation for filing EEOC charges
- Reports from Whittier
- Eviction Halted at CHA Senior Building
- The Butch Bois Chronicles
- Slutwalk Chicago
- A Good Crowd On a Good Day
- “How can you ignore, we’re dying at your door?”
- Tuition hikes and student debt in Chicago
- Collective working to save Radio Arte
- Fighting for the City Colleges
- Introducing: Sage Community Health
- What is the Prison Industrial Complex?
- May Day: On Peacekeeping and the Cops
- Images from May Day
- Warehouse workers to file charges over discrimination
- notes to a movement: wisconsin’s lost strike moment
- Catch More Flies with Honey: Toward Visionary Organizing
- Family Farm Defenders in Chicago
- An open letter from Madison
- Chicago, We’ve Only Just Begun
- Rahm Won, But who has the vision we need?
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 30, 31, and 32
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 29
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 28
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 27
- Wage Gaps Aren’t too Sweet
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 26
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 25
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 24
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 23
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 22
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 21
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 20
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 19
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 18
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 17
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 16
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 15
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 14
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 13
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 12
- The (Clean) Power of the People Don’t Stop
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 11
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 10
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 9
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Day 8
- Rahm Emanuel Notebook, Week 1
- Jon Burge Sentenced: Was Justice Served?
- Justice and Jon Burge
- The Declining Diversity of Rogers Park
- Never the Same: How Have You Changed?
- What does the Chicago grassroots want to see from their next mayor?
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