Chicago enacted the “Northwest Side Housing Preservation Ordinance,” an ordinance that many are referring to as the “anti-gentrification” ordinance. Despite the grandiose moniker, the ordinance breaks ...

The project, Called La Herencia Apartments, will create 22 units of affordable housing in a neighborhood that's seen housing ...

For the last few years I’ve been chronicling the clumsy efforts of city officials to spark development in low-income communities without igniting the kind of wholesale gentrification that forces ...

Neighborhoods face the challenge of balancing cultural preservation with economic growth amid rising gentrification. Residents are now seeking innovative solutions to protect affordability and ...

A quartet of Chicago officials is working to extend an ordinance that increases the cost of demolitions as a way to protect several West and Northwest Side neighborhoods from gentrification and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Some neighborhoods along the 606 bike trial in Chicago are changing too fast for two aldermen who are proposing some a new law that would slow gentrification along the trail. Eleven ...

CHICAGO — When the road construction around the coming Obama Presidential Center kicked into a new phase last month, South Shore resident Jane Carson said she took the longer bus rides home in stride ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Crain’s residential real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin and ...

Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is pushing to delay enforcement of an anti-gentrification ordinance designed to protect renters across vulnerable Chicago neighborhoods. Ramirez-Rosa wants to begin ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Gentrification and affordable housing are key issues on the Northwest Side as voters in two of Chicago's heavily Latino wards select replacements for longtime retiring aldermen.

Writer Ezra Claytan Daniels and artist Ben Passmore’s new graphic novel BTTM FDRS is a coy, gruesome satire of gentrification. Taking place in the fictional Chicago neighborhood Bottomyards (riffing ...

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