HOLC Residential Security Map — Chicago Area D74

CTL-E-0916 · Policy · 1940 (survey late 1930s)

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1940 HOLC map graded the Black Belt D ('hazardous') with explicitly racialized reasoning; long-run housing outcomes worse in D areas (Fed research), though causal weight is debated.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BVM-005; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BVM-005:policy-holc-redlining; source research type(s): policy.

Sources

Mapping Inequality (dsl.richmond.edu) (primary source)
chicagofed.org (2017)

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