The South Loop in Chicago is one of those neighborhoods that has changed dramatically in recent decades. It's definitely a worthy One Tank Getaway destination.

Chicago's Emerald South is working to reverse the negative effects of historic redlining by revitalizing and transforming 205 acres of vacant land.

Explore the rich cultural heritage of Chicago's South Side, from the Great Migration to its enduring impact on culture, music, and civil rights movements.

Lightfoot has also put reversing the decades of disinvestment caused by racial covenants, contract buying, and redlining at the center of her economic development policy. The mayor’s Invest South/West ...

In 2017, Johnson founded the Folded Map Project, which visually connects Chicago residents living at corresponding North Side and South Side addresses through photography and video interviews.

In South Bend, redlining codified discrimination against working-class migrants and their descendants and Black Americans from the South.

Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Over the last century, an array of political and cultural forces have created clear lines of division between racial groups.

Redlining is the practice of denying loans to homebuyers in minority areas by deeming them a financial risk. The term referred to the red shading on maps of urban areas where the federal government, ...

Put simply: redlining is the act of denying people access to credit because of where they live and who they are, even if they’re qualified borrowers. So how did Chicago use redlining in the early to ...

Opinion Race Redlining Maps Didn’t Affect Neighborhoods the Way You Think They Did Home Owners’ Loan Corporation maps have long been blamed for racial inequities in today’s Black neighborhoods, but ...

For decades we have blamed 100-year-old maps for the patterns of spatial racial inequity that persist in American cities today. An esteemed researcher says: we’ve got it all wrong.

Similarly, Ward Miller of Preservation Chicago says when many storefront churches closed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, neighborhoods lost out on essential services.