Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Opening this week in Chicago, the National Public Housing Museum wants to reinvigorate our interest in collective well-being by ...

Chicago’s National Public Housing Museum (NPHM), the only cultural institution in the country dedicated to telling the story of public housing, is preparing for a grand opening in a new permanent ...

A groundbreaking exhibition that sheds light on unsavory Chicago real estate practices in the '50s and '60s: Land Sale Contracts. “Inequality for Sale” is the striking name of this exhibit, created by ...

“The story of public housing has been engulfed by stereotypes and misconceptions. Facts have been distorted. Nuance has been lost. Residents’ real-life accounts have been reduced to tropes of ...

Public housing in Chicago began on the Near West Side’s Taylor Street — and the last few months have seen the opening of a new institution dedicated to telling the story of public housing and its ...

After more than a decade of planning, the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) opens next month. Why it matters: The NPHM will be the first museum in the country dedicated to telling the stories and ...

Chicago, like many U.S. cities, has a history of building public housing and then tearing it down. Cabrini-Green, a textbook example, was demolished decades ago, along with so many other storied ...

For decades, the CHA painted public housing interiors with this lead-based green paint. Credit: Maya Dukmasova If there’s anything that perfectly captures the transformation of public housing from ...