Case Study: Washington Park

99% black; poverty rate 51%

by Sam Worley



For better or worse, Washington Park dodged the golden bullet of gentrification in 2009 when the International Olympic Committee rejected Chicago's bid to host the 2016 games. The bid proposal included a plan for an 80,000-seat stadium in the rambling park with the same name as the neighborhood it separates from the University of Chicago campus.…

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