The CHA has been sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in cash reserves. On Wednesday, July 8 the secretary of the federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) office reiterated this fact at a ribbon cutting ceremony at the former site of the Stateway Gardens public housing development, now re-christened as a mixed-income development called Park Boulevard. 
On June 29, 2015, over 100 Chicagoans from dozens of nonprofit organizations, unions and universities came together in Bronzeville to discuss real revenue options that are based on sound research and already successfully implemented in states across the country. For… 
On June 5, the mayor announced a STEM pilot program at Phoenix Military Academy. CPS already created a STEM program at Rickover Naval Academy in 2013. It is not a coincidence that STEM is being promoted in military schools… 
Why does it take a rock festival attended mostly by young white people to wake the city up to the disinvestment on the west side? Both aldermen whose wards cover Douglas Park are hoping that Riot Fest will bring much… 
The University of Chicago closed the only adult level-one trauma center on the South Side of the city 27 years ago and is finally considering reopening it, after years of protest, and after an Illinois Department of Public Health investigation… 
