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The Venice Architecture Biennale, the world’s largest and most visited exhibition focusing on architecture, is once again featuring work by many MIT faculty, students, and alumni. On view through Nov. 26, the 2023 biennale, curated by Ghanaian-Scotti

MIT faculty, alumni, and students contribute as curators and exhibitors at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, the world’s most prominent stage for architecture and design.

New property tax reform legislation lowers interest rates, ends scavenger sales and closes loopholes that drain money from minority communities.

/PRNewswire/ -- Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas, who issued two studies last year that found gross inequities in the states property tax code, spearheaded...

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas, who issued two studies last year that found gross inequities in the state’s property tax code, spearheaded the passage of

The abandonment and neglect that has undermines the economies of many Chicago and Cook County neighborhoods is very much man-made, according to a new study.

Cook County's antiquated system for dealing with abandoned property entrenches poverty.

The history of government redlining haunts many struggling neighborhoods to this day. A little more than half of the 27,000 properties now at risk of being sold for back taxes are within areas the federal government had redlined.

CHICAGO — Vacant and abandoned properties clustered on the Chicago’s South and West sides and southern suburbs have been a stubborn problem for decades. Every two years, the Cook County treasurer trie...

Many of the barriers erected by elected officials and civic leaders beginning in the 1930s to keep Black Chicagoans, Latino Chicagoans and White Chicagoans from living, working and playing in the same neighborhoods remain unchanged nearly a century later, according to a new study.