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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Good morning, Chicago. Vacant and abandoned properties clustered on the Chicago’s South and West sides and southern suburbs have ...

Despite the health benefits of urban green space, disparities in its access and use have long existed. Emerging evidence suggests an adverse impact of redlining, a discriminatory practice decades ago, ...

The law was meant to be “a solution to redlining, but it didn’t work because it didn’t solve redlining and the underlying lack of generational wealth” among Black families, said Cook County Treasurer ...

Redlining is the discriminatory practice of denying services—typically financial—to residents of certain areas based on their ...

The American dream of homeownership remains painfully out of reach for far too many Black and Hispanic families. Only 43% of Black households and 60% of Hispanic households in Chicago own their home — ...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a settlement with Townstone Financial in its case accusing the home lender of discriminatory lending practices and redlining Black neighborhoods ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The report, “Maps of Inequality: From Redlining to Urban Decay and the Black Exodus,” argues that those redlined maps “set in motion urban decay and fueled an ongoing exodus of Black people from ...