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Chicago is now home to the National Public Housing Museum, a first of its kind institution created alongside people who’ve ...
The housing authority has issued a new request for proposals for the after its previous development team fell apart last fall ...
Set inside a once-dilapidated 1938 building on Chicago's near West Side, a one-of-a-kind museum hopes to change the ...
A former federal housing project in Chicago recently received a $17.5 million renovation to ensure preservation of residents’ ...
Free to visit and located in the last surviving building of the former Jane Addams Homes, the new Chicago museum is filled ...
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 ...
Located in a preserved 1930s development in Chicago's West Side, the museum includes three recreated apartments representing ...
The museum, in the works since the late ’90s, opened Friday in the last remaining building from the Chicago Housing Authority ...
The new National Public Housing Museum in Chicago shows how narratives and prejudice doomed a great social investment.
Opening this week in Chicago, the National Public Housing Museum wants to reinvigorate our interest in collective well-being ...
Founded by residents, it is the first cultural institution to interpret the American experience via public housing, and it’s ...
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. A former federal housing project that ...