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Posts tagged "Chicago Housing Authority"

The Chicago Reporter Wins 8 Lisagor Awards

The Chicago Reporter won eight Lisagor Awards Friday night honoring exemplary reporting, design, graphics and photography in 2011. The awards were established by the Chicago Headline Club in 1977 to recognize top-notch journalism in Chicago and were named in honor of Peter Lisagor, one of the country’s most respected journalists who died in 1976. In-Depth... Read more »
By Michael McHugh,
May 7, 2012 at 10:46 am
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The Chicago Reporter up for several top honors at Friday's Lisagor Awards

The Chicago Reporter, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2012, has been nominated for a number of top honors in the 35th annual Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism. Founded by the Chicago Headline Club in 1977, these awards recognize the best of the city’s journalism and also serve to inspire journalists to follow Lisagor’s contribution... Read more »
By Michael McHugh,
May 4, 2012 at 11:21 am
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Will Lathrop Homes' spot on National Register of Historic Places save it from the bulldozer?

Will Lathrop Homes' spot on National Register of Historic Places save it from the bulldozer?
Lathrop Homes was public housing before public housing existed. Built in the late 1930s as a project of the Works Progress Administration during the depression, the low-rise brick buildings along the Chicago River don’t look like the massive concrete towers built decades later. The courtyard layout, complete with archways, decorative windows and stone medallions are... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
May 2, 2012 at 10:31 am
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Cabrini rowhouses: a last look?

Cabrini rowhouses: a last look?
A friend of mine and documentary photographer Nathan Lanthrum shared this photo with me of the Cabrini rowhouses. Lanthrum has been documenting the changes in Cabrini in the last year through photography and sent me this shot. Just what will happen to the rowhouses is still up in the air, although we know now that... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
November 2, 2011 at 11:05 am
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Next on the chopping block: $73 million in federal public housing money

U.S. Senators are sharpening their knives, preparing to shave billions in federal housing and human services money slated to flow to cities, including Chicago next year. Down at City Hall, housing advocates lamented the potential loss of money they say is sorely needed to finish the overhaul of public housing and to offset rents for... Read more »
By AngelaCaputo,
October 14, 2011 at 12:19 pm
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Charles Woodyard is the new CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority

Charles Woodyard is the new CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority
Charles Woodyard, the new chief executive officer of the Chicago Housing Authority, will take the reigns of the agency at a tumultuous moment in its history. Perhaps most significantly, the housing authority’s Plan for Transformation is behind schedule, leaving empty lots scattered around redevelopment sites instead of new units in mixed-income communities. Launched in 1999... Read more »
By Micah Maidenberg,
September 23, 2011 at 10:09 am
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Public housing, market-rate units, and the Lathrop Homes

Public housing, market-rate units, and the Lathrop Homes
Whether market-rate units are included in the mix at a restructured Julia C. Lathrop Homes, a public housing development on the city’s North Side, is expected to be one of the major issues that arises during an upcoming planning process about the site. The development, which hugs the east bank of the Chicago River on... Read more »
By Micah Maidenberg,
September 20, 2011 at 3:10 pm
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How one family drew a one-strike investigation

Around this time last year, Patricia Reed, her husband Albert Sims and I were catching up on the third floor of Cook County’s criminal courthouse when she filled me in on her moving plans. I was working on a piece about 17-year-olds in the adult felony system at the time and was lucky enough to... Read more »
By AngelaCaputo,
September 13, 2011 at 11:43 am
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Must-hear radio: "One and Done" on today's Barbershop Show

Must-hear radio: "One and Done" on today's Barbershop Show
If you’ve never tuned in to our weekly radio show, the Barbershop Show, or if you listen every single week, you simply must tune in today at noon. We’ve gathered a group of people who are sure to make one of our most memorable, most controversial and most interesting shows ever. Did you know that... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
September 9, 2011 at 10:22 am
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Read the Reporter in The New York Times!

Read the Reporter in The New York Times!
For years, public housing advocates have complained about the Chicago Housing Authority’s one strike policy–the policy that make families eligible for eviction if anyone in their household is arrested, even if the charges are later dropped. We’ve all wondered: Just how many families are being evicted each year? And for what? Is the one strike... Read more »
By MeganCottrell,
September 7, 2011 at 4:18 pm
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