CHICAGO (WLS) -- ABC 7, Chicago's Number One station for news, presented a virtual town hall examining the long lasting effects of the discriminatory real estate and banking practices of redlining.

CHICAGO — Vacant and abandoned properties clustered on the Chicago’s South and West sides and southern suburbs have been a stubborn problem for decades. Every two years, the Cook County treasurer ...

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A nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the city's Black and ...

Vacant and abandoned properties clustered on the Chicago’s South and West sides and southern suburbs have been a stubborn problem for decades. Every two years, the Cook County treasurer tries to ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Friday announced that it is seeking a settlement with Chicago-based Townstone Financial that would resolve a case over what the bureau calls ...

A map showing nearly all Chicago neighborhoods as a poor credit risk for home lenders dominates a new exhibit at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on redlining, the 20th-century policy of denying ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued a Chicago-based mortgage lender alleging it engaged in illegal redlining by discouraging prospective Black applicants from applying for home loans.