A late afternoon rainstorm Tuesday didn't stop developers, neighborhood residents and political figures from celebrating the end of Phase 1 in the redevelopment of the Julia C. Lathrop Homes, a ...

For years, the Chicago Housing Authority kept the Lathrop Homes mostly vacant and in disrepair while promising to restore the complex to 100 percent public housing. Now it’s become a mixed-income ...

Lathrop Community Partners, the joint venture of Related Midwest, Bickerdike Redevelopment and Heartland Housing that is redeveloping Chicago Housing Authority's historic Lathrop Homes public housing ...

With an overhaul imminent for the only large public housing complex on Chicago’s North Side, a decades-old legal battle over segregation has been reignited. A team of public interest lawyers ...

For years, dozens of Lathrop's buildings stood nearly or entirely empty as the riverside neighborhood around them gentrified. Credit: Jason Reblando A lottery for those who want to live in the newly ...

Lathrop Homes, a historic but decaying public housing project on Chicago’s North Side, would become a mixed-income riverfront community of more than 1,100 residences under a plan developers are ...

The Chicago Reporter's Angela Caputo has an excellent piece on how 18 percent of CHA units are unoccupied, despite a waiting list of tens of thousands. Some, obviously, have been taken "offline" to be ...

Current and former residents of Lathrop Homes, a sprawling, but mostly shuttered public housing complex in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood, led a procession through the properties to call on city ...