CHICAGO (CBS)-- Chicago is one of the most racially segregated cities in the country, and some historians call it the capital of America's segregation. CBS 2's Audrina Sinclair reports on a new ...

Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated ...

As in Chicago, South Africa's cities are immersed in a country with a prevalent gun culture. And both places share a long history of segregation. (Eerily, apartheid became law after the victory of ...

Natalie Y. Moore, a South Side native and public-radio journalist who covers the region, explores the systems and sentiments that keep Chicago segregation intact in The South Side: A Portrait of ...

Why are large swaths of Chicago’s population unable to get ahead? There are two main reasons. The first and most obvious is the legacy of segregation that has made it difficult for poor black ...

There is reason to believe that the riots helped remake Chicago’s racial landscape: “That kind of mob violence drove policies,” Ewing said. “In order to understand the segregation that we ...

Credit: Rich Hein/Sun-Times A new study released Tuesday by the Metropolitan Planning Council found that Chicago-area segregation is costing the regional economy more than $4 billion in lost ...

Johnson and Thomas partner with Chicago’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice to offer the Disrupting Segregation Tours in Englewood and Lincoln Park. On those tours, Thomas focuses on the ...

“Chicago has now reached that point in its ... Susaneck argues in his project, Segregation by Design. The project, which looks at the 180 cities that received funding through the Federal Highway ...

Johnson and Thomas partner with Chicago’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice to offer the Disrupting Segregation Tours in Englewood and Lincoln Park. On those tours, Thomas focuses on the ...

Chicago would like to be the city of emancipation ... It's a community whose family units are often fractured, that suffers from segregation, miserable schools, industry-polluted soil and gang ...

Today, we're focusing on Chicago — the country's third largest (and one of the most diverse) cities, and a city that has been a blueprint for housing segregation. While the discriminatory practice of ...