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CHICAGO — A sea of floral beauty has attracted people to a South side neighbor where a local artist and economic developer teamed up with the community by using nature to symbolize and bring light to ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- For years, vast stretches of vacant lots have scarred Chicago's landscape - visible reminders of decades of disinvestment. "For generations, if the only thing you've ever seen is a ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago is blooming. The colorful floral display in the Washington Park neighborhood catches everyone's eye – and an artist hopes it makes people ...

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Redlining is the act of denying people access to credit because of where they live and who they are. To this day, Chicagoans live in a fairly segregated city. And that segregation didn’t happen by ...

The American dream of homeownership remains painfully out of reach for far too many Black and Hispanic families. Only 43% of Black households and 60% of Hispanic households in Chicago own their home — ...

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a settlement with Townstone Financial in its case accusing the home lender of discriminatory lending practices and redlining Black neighborhoods ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- An Englewood organization is teaming up with the Cook County Land Bank to tackle decades of neglect and discriminatory practices that blocked Chicagoans from owning homes. CBS 2's ...

A federal judge on Thursday blocked an attempt by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to reverse a $105,000 settlement with Townstone Financial, a Chicago-based mortgage broker accused of ...