Next year will mark 50 years since the founding of Chicago’s Black Ensemble Theater. Many well-regarded theaters have come ...

Black Ensemble Theater founder Jackie Taylor gets personal about her own family in Elvis Presley Was a Black Man Named Joe.

The Chicago Housing Authority this week unveiled two senior-housing properties in Lincoln Park, where it invested a total of ...

Residents of the last tower of Chicago's Cabrini Green housing project have been relocated and the building is being torn down. Until recently a few holdouts remained.

Cabrini-Green Lot Vacant For 50 Years Closer To Being Redeveloped With Mixed-Income Apartments: Fifty-four of the building’s 78 units will be affordable. The finance committee approved $14 million in ...

Who does historic preservation really benefit? An apartment complex by the celebrated architect Paul Rudolph is the latest Modern icon to spark debate over balancing the needs of residents and ...