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GCI Working Paper Series - 2000
The Politics
of School Desegregation in Oak Park
Evan McKenzie
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
May 2000
GCP-00-1
Oak Park's school desegregation efforts in 1976 and 1987 accomplished
their intended purpose, which was to promote racial balance among the
neighborhood elementary schools. But new disparities have emerged in
the years since. This working paper focuses on the enrollment trends,
areas of controversy, and public policies that have emerged in Oak Park
over the last 30 years.
Can
Chicago Make It as a Global City?
Janet Abu-Lughod
Professor Emerita, Sociology, Northwestern University
Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, New York
June 2000
GCP-00-2
Chicago is a global city. It always has been. But the answer to the
question, "Can Chicago make it as a vital, growing, commanding
center in the new configuration of the global system?" is not so
evident. This paper is from a presentation made in November, 1999 at
the Harold Washington Center of the Chicago Public Library as part of
the Great Cities Institute's 1999-2000 Lecture Series and is based on
Dr. Abu-Ludhod's 1999 book, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's
Global Cities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999).
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