But Skid Row also survived because of Chicago’s unabashed link between civic policy and private gain. The Starr Hotel was owned by Charles Swibel, head of the Chicago Housing Authority under ...

Thirty years ago, when the Produce Hotel fell into disrepair, a newly formed nonprofit, the Skid Row Housing Trust ... Harcourt, then a University of Chicago law professor, wrote of the Produce ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Residents have now been ... which by the 1950s had become infamous as Skid Row. Many of the old hotels closed in subsequent years, but tragedy has struck those that have remained ...

Across the Chicago River is a stretch that into the ’70s was notorious: the old Skid Row, where flophouses charged ... The Viceroy Hotel, a block north, bears a sign offering “Free Parking ...

What Norlander wanted was an inside story of Skid Row to shock Chicago’s complacent citizens ... After one night in a bug-infested hotel, the two reporters gave up, slipped home of nights ...

Two decades ago, the City of Los Angeles passed a law to preserve Skid Row’s historic single-room occupancy hotels. Now it wants to tear them down. The office of Mayor Karen Bass, nonprofit ...