This report aimed to develop a theory of racial change in suburban areas as distinct from classical theories about urban change, through examining patterns of integration or re-segregation in six suburbs. The Center for Urban Research and Policy Studies: Chicago, 1986.
Sanders, Jane Bannor and other members of the University of Chicago Committee on Public Policy Studies. Integration and Racial Change in Six Chicago Suburban Communities: Volume I and Volume II by Richard P. In the wake of the riots, the Chicago Commission on Race Relations commissioned “The Negro in Chicago”-the first government-funded research conducted on race relations and the conditions faced by African-Americans in Chicago. In July-August 1919, the stoning and death of an African-American teenager at Lake Michigan sparked weeks of violence between African-American and white Chicagoans in South Side neighborhoods. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1922. The Negro in Chicago by Charles Spurgeon Johnson. We are happy to make the following resources from the collection available for you to read and download: It provides invaluable resources for understanding how segregation became so entrenched in Chicago, the toll it takes on all residents, and what can be done to foster social and economic opportunity for the city’s most vulnerable communities. This collection explores the mechanisms that perpetuate housing segregation and the struggles of African-American neighborhoods with poverty and neglect-from the aftermath of the notorious summer 1919 riots to the demolition of the Chicago Housing Authority’s high-rise projects in the 2000s. A small number of local journalists who are familiar with Chicago’s violence problem also attended, as did a handful of representatives from local philanthropic foundations.The Chicago Community Trust’s library houses a number of reports, articles and books detailing the complex history and legacy of racial segregation in Chicago from the 1920s to present day. Former gang members and gang intervention workers from Austin, North and South Lawndale, East Garfield Park, Woodlawn, Englewood, and other communities added their local expertise to the research. John Hagedorn, of Great Cities Institute (GCI), was joined by Roberto Aspholm (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) Andrew Papachristos (Northwestern University) and Lance Williams (Northeastern Illinois University). The conference was anchored by four scholars, all with a long history of research with Chicago gangs. The conference concluded with proposals to address Chicago’s situation of fragmented gangs and persistently high rates of homicide. This unique working conference consisted of a single day of presentations and conversations on the current state of gangs, framed by an overview of homicide trends in Rust Belt and other major U.S. Northeastern Illinois April 27, 2018, the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago convened the region’s top researchers on gangs – along with approximately 50 street-level experts, service providers, journalists who have covered Chicago’s epidemic of violence, and others with expertise in the field – to address unanswered questions about gangs and violence in Chicago.
Carruthers Center for Urban Community Studies University of Illinois at Papachristos, Ph.D.įaculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research Southern Illinois University Córdova, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Aspholm, Ph.D.Īssistant Professor, Department of Social Work Professor (Retired), Criminology, Law and Justice Rosemoor and North Pullman Neighborhoods Plan.
8600 Block of Commercial Avenue Mixed-Use Concept.Northern Commercial Avenue Gateway Park.Southern Commercial Avenue Gateway/The Underline.Calumet River Communities Planning Framework.South Chicago’s Commercial Avenue Revitalization Plan.Burnham Avenue Corridor Revitalization Plan.Out of School and Out of Work 16 to 19 and 20 to 24 Year Olds in Chicago and Cook County in 2017.Fact Sheet: Black Population Loss in Chicago.Fact Sheet: Population Change in Illinois.Fact Sheet: Chicago Community Area Economic Hardship Index (2017).Fact Sheet: 2013-2017 Out of School and Out of Work 16-19 and 20-24 Year Olds in Chicago and Illinois Counties.