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This thesis examines the University of Chicago’s relationship to its neighbors from 1925 to 1940. During this period, the “Chicago School” sociologists Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, and Louis Wirth published research on the city which legitimized…

This study focuses on the spatial claims that the Obama Foundation and South Side Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) Coalition make regarding the Obama Presidential Center, in the context of Jackson Park, the Woodlawn neighborhood, and the wider…

Community organizing has often been used in the City of Chicago to advocate for local interests. Woodlawn, a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, has a particularly rich history of organizing in order to achieve policy change and elevate the…

Jackson Park has been an integral public space in Chicago’s South Side for over a century. As the site of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the park began its existence as the place where Chicago introduced itself to the world. Since then, several major…

The Chicago Housing Authority launched the Plan for Transformation, aiming to demolish public housing and to force former residents into mixed-income housing. Initiated in 1999, the Plan for Transformation has long lasting ripple effects in South…

Nearly half a century since the onset of the Plan for Transformation, various neighborhoods in Chicago see the changes brought by the Chicago Housing Authority. As federal funding dies down, it is critical to discuss urban landscape and community…

The Woodlawn Parcel Survey (WPS) was a 2017 community-based initiative to collect use, occupancy, and conditions data for all 4,875 parcels of land within Woodlawn’s boundaries. Results from the survey form the foundation upon which this website is…

This map shows residential area, vacant area, commercial frontage, railroad property, and transit lines in Woodlawn. 

The Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University finds that displacement pressure increased in 2017 for neighborhoods like Woodlawn, where development and potential investments were underway. It is worth noting that West Woodlawn has been…

Woodlawn, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. It is bounded by Lake Michigan to the east, 60th Street to the north, Martin Luther King Drive to the west, and 67th Street to the south. Much of its eastern…