Report: Illinois property law fails to end redlining impact
A nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area...
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A nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area...
A study says that a nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods
The discriminatory lending policy led to “vast swaths" of vacant and boarded-up buildings in minority neighborhoods, the study by a team at the treasurer’s office found.
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BLACK CAUCUS BACKS MADIGAN — MERRY VAX-MAS! — LIGHTFOOT DINGS D.C. — GOP EYES GOLDBERG — DURBIN’s DOUBLE DUTY Presented by Uber Driver Stories Happy Thursday, Illinois. Relax Democrats, says POLITICO’s John F. Harris, The Illinois House Legislative Black Caucus announced late Wednesday night that it's sticking with Michael Madigan as speaker, even as he struggles to hold onto a majority of members in the wake of concerns about his connection to a corruption scandal. Madigan hasn’t been charged, but the looming scandal has touched people in his orbit and in turn been a distract...