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View From the Ground

By Aaron Sarver

Journalist Jamie Kalven characterizes his experience covering Stateway Gardens, a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) development, as “human rights” reporting. For 10 years Kalven maintained an unofficial office at Stateway and was a daily presence there until the buildings were demolished over the last few years. Stateway was dismantled under the City of Chicago’s Plan for Transformation, which mandates the replacement ofreturn to article

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