How Chicago Has Revived a Legacy of Jim Crow

While the election and Israel’s war in Gaza have recently dominated the news, one story has evaded public scrutiny. In Chicago and some other midwestern cities, due to declining enrollment, education departments are selling unused school buildings. In doing so, they have purposefully excluded charter schools or other educational institutions from purchasing the properties in question. To accomplish this goal, they have written restrictive covenants into the deeds to prevent future owners from selling to schools.