A profoundly unsettled public perception of social order characterized America at the turn of the 20th century, in which the White middle class believed traditional Ameri [...]

Between 2018 and 2023, eighteen regional historical societies, community organizations, and native nations collaboratively co-curated Calumet Voices, National Stories, a [...]

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Research that has previously attempted to determine the effectiveness of selective enrollment institutions in Chicago, compared to their non-selective counterparts, ha [...]

In this thesis, I will examine modern reggaeton through a combination of musical analysis and interviews. Although there have been significant writings on reggaeton, its [...]

Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us all to dramatically reconsider how we exist within and engage with public spaces. Drawing from the exigency of thi [...]

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The maintenance residential lawns require has several negative impacts on the environment such as soil and groundwater contamination. Despite this, they remain popular as [...]

Demolition is a common fact of contemporary urban life, particularly in areas with aging building stock, rapid population change, or sudden transformations in land-use. F [...]

This socio-legal research project assesses the role of litigation in environmental justice activist movements, using the planned relocation of the General Iron metal recy [...]

The increasing hostility of the abortion access landscape and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have increased stressors for organizations bridging access to abort [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has labeled care workers as “essential,” raising questions about the distance between the social lauding of the profession and the felt value by the [...]

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This thesis seeks to develop a comprehensive understanding of chronically underused stations throughout the Chicago Transit Authority’s rail network. I will specifically [...]

Regenerative development is an emergent field of practice aimed to address escalating climate change and urbanization trends by incorporating holistic, systems thinkin [...]

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In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated food insecurity and caused global supply chain shortages, highlighting the vulnerability of the conventional globa [...]

In early 2020, the novel COVID-19 pandemic struck the United States, catalyzing an economic, political, social, and public health crisis. According to the USDA, 10.5% of [...]

National parks are seeing more visitors than ever, raising concerns over the environmental conditions in the park. Past research on national park designation has focused [...]

Chicago’s Puerto Rican community, between the time it formed in the early 1950s to the grassroots activism of the late 1960s, was organized by Puerto Ricans leaders using [...]

The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests placed significant pressure on local governments to fund nonenforcement alternatives to policing. One prominent example of such alter [...]

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This thesis interrogates how the shifting roles of the University of Chicago (UChicago) in systems of racial capitalist accumulation shaped the sites of struggle in confl [...]

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) suffers from a strained relationship with the city it serves as a result of broken trust from numerous scandals. In this study, I util [...]

This paper examines the distribution of rooftop solar installations in Chicago and the factors that influence their adoption, with a particular focus on equity. Despite t [...]