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The presidential center is expected to open in 2025 but began driving up prices in the neighborhood even before breaking ground in 2021. Woodlawn — first a community of Dutch farmers in the mid-19th century, then home to Black migrants from the South starting in the early 1900s — is just west of the presidential center’s Jackson Park site. Stroll through the rapidly gentrifying community to see stately greystones and brick houses from a bygone era coexisting with modern low-rise condominiums.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
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Woodlawn had 10 murders last year. Gentrification only goes so far in a neighborhood with double-digit murders every year.