Recent Contributions
Landmark Housing Plan Struggling To Bring Neighbors Together
by EMMA GRAVES FITZSIMMONS | May 21, 2010
Johnnie Braswell moved into Westhaven Park four years ago, after living in the midst of violence and drugs for 43 years in the Harold Ickes public housing complex on the South Side. Ms. Braswell said she felt safer now and liked her modern apartment, but she said she wished the building’s condominium owners would socialize
A Promise of Jobs Remains Only Partly Fulfilled
by EMMA GRAVES FITZSIMMONS | Mar 28, 2010
When Ronald Bender and about 260 other workers were unexpectedly laid off from a North Side window factory 15 months ago, they staged a sit-in and gained national attention as symbols of a work force battered by hard times. A few months later, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. visited the former Republic Windows &