Last Saturday, the Hyde Park community organization Coalition for Equitable Community Development (CECD) held a public event entitled “Gentrification. It’s Here. What’s Next?” The event, held at ...

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

South Shore is shaping up as the next battlefront in Chicago’s ongoing gentrification and development war. The Obama Presidential Center, set to open in Jackson Park in 2025, is catalyzing a dispute ...

Chicago’s real estate industry is coming out against an anti-gentrification ordinance for the Northwest Side that charges developers significant demolition fees and gives tenants the right of first ...

Chicago Alderman Roberto Maldonado listed his Humboldt Park home for $2.4 million, after years of efforts to slow gentrification of the area. Maldonado’s home sits just a block from the 606 trail, a ...

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 ...

“I remember my tio saying, ‘I can’t wait until the white man invents polyester,'” Jesus ‘Chuy’ Negrete sang at Hutch. Negrete sang as part of “The Hood Under Attack: The Effects of Gentrification in ...

A one-year pilot designed to slow gentrification in two fast-changing parts of the city has been effective, advocates say, and should be renewed for another two years. A $15,000 surcharge on ...

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.

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 ...

When Gordon Dymowski moved into his mother’s apartment in Beverly in 2016 to tend to her kidney and heart issues, he found solace in her close-knit community alongside the daily trials of caregiving.