Construction on the transformation of the Stateway Gardens public housing site into a mixed-income neighborhood will begin by spring with marketing of the first units starting in February. The Chicago ...

Unexpectedly, she sings. The young girl’s trembling voice soars above the shouts of quarreling men and the swish of highway traffic outside her crumbling home. In her second-floor living room, where ...

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Journalist Jamie Kalven characterizes his experience covering Stateway Gardens, a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) development, as “human rights” reporting. For 10 years Kalven maintained an unofficial ...

Drain’s resonant debut tracks a community’s hardscrabble struggle in the Stateway Gardens housing project on Chicago’s South Side from the 1980s through the project’s closure in the early 2000s.