About one-third of displacements in Chicago came from two urban renewal projects: Hyde Park-Kenwood, which displaced about 4,000 families, and Lake Meadows, which displaced another 3,400 families.

Take Chicago. Areas on the city’s south side that were redlined in the 1930s almost directly line up with later urban renewal projects like Hyde Park. And there are implications for urban ...

Recently, though, the school’s acquisition of property west of Washington Park caused a public outcry. Remembering the urban renewal experience in Hyde Park, residents of the Washington Park ...

In her 2017 A.B. thesis, University of Chicago graduate Juliet Eldred wrote extensively about UChicago’s nearly century-long history of gentrifying Hyde Park and many other South Side neighborhoods ...