Developing Communities Project News Today

Find out how a young Barack Obama, raised by a single mother, became one of the most influential figures of the 20th century.

Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States and a former senator from Illinois. Obama, the first African American president of the United States, served one term in the Illinois Senate. Barack Obama’s net worth is $70 million as of this writing.ContentsBarack Obama Early LifeBarack Obama CareerBarack Obama Personal LifeBarack Obama Net worthReal […]

We take a look back at the life and journey of Barack Obama, the first African American president in the history of the United States.

The Chicago Transit Authority is hoping to finally make good on a promise to expand a subway line to the southern edge of the city. First it needs the City Council to agree to a plan for raising billions of dollars to support the project.

At first glance Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenager, seems a very unlikely candidate to become arguably the world's best known environmental activist.

Cities Barack Obama has exploited his youthful stint as a Chicago community organizer at every stage of his political career. As someone who had worked for grassroots “change,” he said, he was a different kind of politician, one who could translate people’s hopes into reality. The media lapped up this conceit, presenting Obama’s organizing experience as a meaningful qualification for the Oval Office. This past September, a cell-phone video of Chicago students beating a fellow teen to de...

Hazel Johnson (1935-2011) is considered by many to be the mother of environmental justice. For more than 30 years, she pressed local officials and corporations to clean up toxic waste and pollution in her southeast Chicago community of Altgeld Gardens. (Courtesy of People for Community Recovery) She was a community activist. She was an ambassador of Altgeld Gardens. She was an early mentor to Barack Obama. She was a "thorn in the side" of the Chicago waste industry. She was a ...