Chicago Public Research Articles

Urban Renewal and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago's Public Housing Demolitions

Urban Renewal and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago's Public Housing Demolitions

Urban Renewal and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago's Public Housing Demolitions

Urban Renewal and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago's Public Housing Demolitions

Deaf Autonomy and Sign in the Chicago Public Day Schools during the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Deaf Autonomy and Sign in the Chicago Public Day Schools during the Turn of the Twentieth Century

James M. Buchanan, Chicago and Post-War Public Finance

This paper examines James Buchanan’s earliest writings within the context of post-WWII public finance theory and his education at Chicago. Public choice scholars have long recognized their ties to Chicago, but few have examined Chicago’s role serving as the primordial soup for Buchanan’s later work in public choice. Thus, we know very little about the sub-discipline of public finance at Chicago and its institutional and intellectual traditions in the immediate post war period. As the influence of Knight, price theory, and catallactics on Buchanan have been well explored, the focus here is on Buchanan’s graduate training in public finance, the departmental emphasis on product differentiation of ideas, and the general acceptance in ‘Old Chicago School’ economics of the importance of institutions and institutional design. I find that while maintaining a high degree of intellectual affinity with Chicago economics generally, Buchanan broke decisively with orthodox public finance (including that taught at Chicago) on several substantive issues early in his career, including the importance of expenditure theory and the relevance of the benefit principle and voluntary exchange.

Teaching and Learning Guide for: Racial Residential Segregation in Urban America

Teaching and Learning Guide for: Racial Residential Segregation in Urban America

The poverty of life-affirming work: motherwork, education, and social change

Preface Introduction The War Against Subsistence Ache When I Think of My Children: Raising Children in Chicago's Public Housing Welfare Mothers: Invisible Work Becoming Visible--And Invisible Again Literacy and Motherwork Teaching and Learning as a Political Ally Creating and Sustaining Life and Community Conclusions References Index

Race, Space, and the Politics of Chicago's Public Schools: Benjamin Willis and the Tragedy of Urban Education

Race, Space, and the Politics of Chicago's Public Schools: Benjamin Willis and the Tragedy of Urban Education

Lessons from Catholic Schools: Promoting Quality in Chicago's Public Schools

Lessons from Catholic Schools: Promoting Quality in Chicago's Public Schools

The German-American Turners: Their Efforts to Promote, Develop, and Initiate Physical Culture in Chicago's Public Schools and Parks, 1860-1914

The German-American Turners: Their Efforts to Promote, Develop, and Initiate Physical Culture in Chicago's Public Schools and Parks, 1860-1914

Ethnicity and Urban Recreation: Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics in Chicago's Public Parks

Field observations of white, black, and Hispanic groups in thirteen neighborhood and regional parks in Chicago were made to determine ethnic and or racial variations in leisure and recreation activ...

Toward Cooperative Collection Development in the Illinois Library and Information Network

Under the Illinois Library System Act, the head librarians of the University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Chicago Public, and Illinois State Libraries, with the Chairman, Illinois State Library Advisory Committee, serve as the Research and Reference Center Committee. The R & R Committee's first duty in encouraging and in making available adequate library research and reference facilities for the residents of Illinois is “to develop long range acquisition policies to strengthen the existing collections and to avoid unnecessary duplication.” To this end, a subcommittee, broadly representative of the Illinois library community, was appointed late in 1975 with specific charge to identify unmet needs of the Illinois library and information network and to make recommendations to identify or to develop collections to meet these needs. The Subcommittee's report, accepted by the parent committee in February, 1977, follows. The R & R Committee directed that the report be distributed widely to library systems and to other appropriate groups in the state and that their consideration and response be aggressively sought, supported, and encouraged before the casting and adoption of the plan, the determination of priorities, and the implementation of the grand design. This plan is now before the Illinois library community for preview, with the anticipation that it will provoke the thought, reaction, and action vitally necessary to make it a vehicle for the continuance of the state's record of dynamic library development.

Defining Racial Imbalance in Public Educational Institutions

1 Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U. S. 483 (1954); 349 U.S. 294 (1955). 2 See United States Office of Education, Equality of Educational Opportunity (Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office. 1966), and the three studies b the United States Common on Civil Rights, Civil Rights U.S.A.: Public Schools C& and West (Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1962); Buffalo (1963); and Report, 2 (1961), d 7; see also Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives, Hearings on De Facto Segregation in Chicago's Public 89th Cong. 1st. sess. (Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1965); Massachusetts Advisory Cdnmittee on Imbalance and Education, Because It Is Right Educationally (Boston: State Board of Education, 1965); Hubert Humphrey, ed., Desegregation: Documents and Commentaries (New York: Crowell, 1964); Owne M. Fiss, Racial Inbalance in the Public Schools: the Constitutional Concents, Harvard Law Review, LXXVIII (January, 1965); Symposium: De Facto Segregation, Western Reserve Law Review, XVII (May, 1965), 475; R. A. Sedler, School Segregation in the North and West, St. Louis University Law Journal, VII (Sparng, 1963), 228; Report of the Arthur Garfield Hays Conference: Northern Segregation a Panel, Howard Law Journal X (Fall, 1964), 127; Robert F. Drinan, Racially Balanced Schools: Psychological and Legal Aspects,. Catholic Lawyer, XI (Winter, 1965), XVI; Note, Racial Imbalance in the Public Schools, Vanderbilt Law Review, XVIII (June, 1965), XVIII; Note, Constitutionality of De Facto Segregation, North Dakota Law Review, XLI (March, 1965), p. 346; Harvard Graduate of Education, Schools for Hartford (Cambridge: Brown must bear much of the blame for

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