Located in a preserved 1930s development in Chicago's West Side, the museum includes three recreated apartments representing ...

Chicago is now home to the National Public Housing Museum, a first of its kind institution created alongside people who’ve ...

New modern public housing was seen as the remedy. At the three Chicago developments, their then-modern look and setting “were meant to be utilitarian, but thoughtful utilitarian,” said Brad ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Set inside a once-dilapidated 1938 building on Chicago’s near West Side, a one-of-a-kind museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America.

Free to visit and located in the last surviving building of the former Jane Addams Homes, the new Chicago museum is filled ...

The new National Public Housing Museum in Chicago shows how narratives and prejudice doomed a great social investment.

The new conflict underscores long-festering tensions between community members who have criticized the housing authority for ...

National Public Housing Museum In the early 2000s, the Chicago Housing Authority ... the city’s oldest federal public housing development, the New Deal-era Jane Addams Homes, residents rallied ...

A former federal housing project in Chicago recently received a $17.5 million renovation to ensure preservation of residents’ ...

The new National Public Housing Museum in Chicago features exhibits rooted in personal objects and stories from people who call public housing home, art installations, and programmatic and advocacy ...

During the Great Depression, the United States government embarked on an ambitious era of public housing, creating almost 1.5 ...

(AP Photo/Erin Hooley) CHICAGO ... 15 new public housing apartments where residents will live. Next door is a city library branch that also has affordable housing units. A mixed-income development ...