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Gale Cincotta (December 28, 1929 – August 15, 2001), a community activist from the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, led the national fight for the US federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) of 1975 and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977. [1] The CRA requires banks and savings and loans to offer credit throughout their entire ...
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA, P.L. 95-128, 91 Stat. 1147, title VIII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977, 12 U.S.C. § 2901 et seq.) is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
Blue Line (CTA) The Blue Line is a 26.93-mile-long (43.34 km) Chicago "L" line which extends through The Loop from O'Hare International Airport at the far northwest end of the city, through downtown via the Milwaukee–Dearborn subway and across the West Side to its southwest end at Forest Park, with a total of 33 stations (11 on the Forest ...
The Chicago rat hole was a hole shaped like a rat formerly in the sidewalk of West Roscoe Street in the Roscoe Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. After existing for decades, it became a viral phenomenon on social media (mainly Twitter) in January 2024, attracting tourists to the site. City officials removed the sidewalk ...
The Chicago Transit Authority ( CTA) is the operator of mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and CTA bus service. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 279,146,200, or about 908,400 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2023. The CTA is an Illinois independent ...
The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ( CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) [1] ( reporting marks CRIP, RI, ROCK) was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock . At the end of 1970, it operated 7,183 miles of road on 10,669 miles of ...
Brown Line (CTA) Kedzie, Francisco, Rockwell, Southport, and Wellington. The Brown Line of the Chicago "L" system, is an 11.4-mile (18.3 km) route with 27 stations between Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood and downtown Chicago. It runs completely above ground and is almost entirely grade-separated.
Chicago, (Chicago/Milwaukee in station announcements) is an 'L' station on the CTA's Blue Line. The station is located at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Milwaukee Avenue in the West Town neighborhood of Chicago , Illinois .