Chicago Housing Authority

CTL-E-1171 · Institution · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Municipal corporation created in 1937 to own and operate public housing in Chicago; by 1960 the city's largest landlord, later infamous for segregated high-rise projects and the controversial Plan for Transformation demolitions.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:cha; source research type(s): institution. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Wikipedia — 'Chicago Housing Authority'
Britannica — 'Chicago Housing Authority'
vLex — Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority, 4 F.Supp.2d 757 (N.D. Ill. 1998), citing 296 F.Supp. 907 and 304 F.Supp. 736 (1969) (primary source)
Wikipedia — 'Chicago Housing Authority'; Crain's Chicago Business (2010-05-20)

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