Special Insert: Notes for a People's History of Chicago

City as Lab

A local reader on experimental policies on the ground in Chicago.

Inheriting the Grid #6

Daniel Tucker
City as Policy Lab

Jamie Peck | Neil Brenner | Nik Theodore
General Bibliography

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Linking the policy experiments of Ren2010 and the Plan for Transformation

The connections between public housing and public schools might not be obvious, yet their dissolution are part of similar trajectories in our city.

Pauline Lipman
Snuggle up to the Commercial Club of Chicago

It is easy to generalize about the economic elite running the show, now find out who the local business leaders that do all those public/private partnerships really are and where they hangout together.

Beth Gutelius | Lisa Sousa
Schooling in Disaster Capitalism

Explore how the political right is using disaster to privatize public schooling in Chicago and throughout the US.

Kenneth J. Saltman
The Horner Model

You know that the Chicago Housing Authority’s current streak of demolitions has been a disaster on many levels, find out about a different model for how public housing could be overhauled.

William Wilen
Foreclosures in Chicago

Michael Van Zalingen, of Neighborhood Housing Services, on tracking the recent mortgage bubble burst on the ground in Chicago.

Michael Van Zalingen
From Perception to Policy

On Chicago School of Sociology’s Influence on Urban Planning Policy

Brian Holmes
The City That Doesn’t Work

Aaron Sarver
Growth Machine Gone Global

For years Chicago activists have argued for more neighborhood over downtown development. This text argues that that debate needs to be updated with new analysis.

Nick Kreitman
Back to Basics

In this interview with Vinay Ravi, a lead organizer for UNITE-HERE Local 1, we learn about unionization and its connection to other forms of politics in Chicago.

Ryan Hollon
The Economic Life Sentence: Introduction to the Low-Wage Labor Market

Ryan Hollon
Learning from LA

In this interview with local labor researcher and activist Virginia Park we learn about the differences between LA’s successful campaigns for a living wage compared with our failures here in Chicago.

Aaron Sarver
Odelay Yonquero

You’ve seen the overloaded trucks whizzing through your alley, now spend a day in the life of two scrap metal haulers.

Nic Halverson
Introducing: precarity : chicago

Tim Sarrantonio
An Introduction to CPS

Therese Quinn
Notes on the Political Economy of Chicago Charter Schools

As Charter Schools evolve there are internal contradictions that need to be examined. This text introduces some of the basic debates around the emergence of Charter schools and what kinds of struggles we can watch out for in the future.

Eric Triantafillou
Boiler Room Pedagogy

In an attempt to quantify everything that occurs within its structure, Chicago Public Schools has gradually adopted new data driven evaluation systems for nearly everyone involved.

Kenzo Shibata
Military in CPS

An introduction to how the Military became so prevalent in our public schools and what some activists are doing about it.

Erica Meiners | Therese Quinn
Redoing the City of Neighborhoods

Jesse Mumm
A Citywide Interview

Presenting 10 replies to our question “How long have you lived in Chicago and what has changed the most and the least here in Chicago over that time period?”

Amelia Ramos | Diana Cruz | Erika Mikkalo | Euan Hague | Helena Marie Carnes-Jeffries | Jesse Mumm | Jim Nelson | Margo Coulter | Marisel Melendez | Peter Zelchenko | Sonjanita Moore
Speculative Landscape: Signs of the Times

An ongoing photo essay. The first part was featured in AREA Chicago #3.

Jason Reblando
Special Insert: Notes for a People’s History of Chicago

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Illustrations by Neil Brideau

Neil Brideau

Special Insert: Notes for a People’s History of Chicago

Published in City as Lab on June 7, 2008

by AREA

Design: Dave Pabellon; Research: Lauren Cumbia, Euan Hague, Micah Maidenberg, Aaron sarver, Daniel Tucker, Jerome Grand, Beth Gutelius

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