The Chicago Housing Authority and BPI reached an agreement in federal court Thursday that calls for CHA to develop on Chicago’s North Side 525 family public housing units that will not be replaced on site as part of the proposed…
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As the construction start date for mixed income redevelopment of Lathrop Homes approaches, most likely in early 2017, BPI is involved in activities to ensure that public housing units not being replaced on the site itself are replaced instead in…
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BPI Director of Justice Reform Adam Gross is featured in a documentary released this week by Al Jazeera English examining Chicago police accountability in the aftermath of the Laquan McDonald shooting. The Contract: Chicago’s Police Union, part of a series called…
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Hometown: Bethesda, Maryland Education: JD, University of Chicago Law School, class of 2016; BA, Law Letters & Society, University of Chicago, 2013. Areas of Interest: The legal issues that interest me most concern civil rights, particularly in the context of…
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In a unanimous opinion, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the authority of Cook County’s Independent Inspector General to investigate possible corruption in the Cook County Assessor’s Office. In 2012 Cook County Independent Inspector General Patrick Blanchard served a subpoena on…
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The Altgeld-Riverdale Early Childhood Innovation Zone, a partnership between BPI and a community-wide coalition, received accolades at a statewide conference earlier this month for successfully increasing preschool enrollment at the schools and centers within its borders. “This Innovation Zone developed…
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BPI had a significant milestone to reflect on this year: It was 50 years ago, as a volunteer attorney for the ACLU, that BPI Senior Staff Counsel Alex Polikoff filed the landmark Gautreaux litigation against CHA and HUD, which ultimately…
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Testifying at Chicago City Council Committee hearings this week, BPI’s Director of Justice Reform Adam Gross urged council members to support Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s ordinance, because it incorporates key reform recommendations made last spring by the Police Accountability Task Force,…
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At BPI’s Annual Dinner earlier this year, keynote speaker Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights reminded us that “the time to act against injustice is always now.” Though we’ve been at the work of making social justice a…
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BPI’s landmark Gautreaux case is one focus of an inspiring 15-minute documentary produced for The New York Times by the independent news organization Retro Report. The film looks back on the history of the case—including the first Supreme Court opinion…
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