Englewood Tour: Rebuilding Through Collective Action (SOLD OUT)
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Date: Saturday, May 2
Time: 1:00pm – 3:30pm
Capacity: 25 participants
Method of Travel: Chartered bus
Pre-departure meet-up of participants: Departure from conference hotel (room location TBD)
Cost: $38.00 USD
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Located 20 minutes south of downtown Chicago, Englewood is one of the most innovative communities in the City of Chicago. The collective ownership and collaborative partnerships around development projects have fostered more than $100 million in investments anticipated in the coming years.
Join us for an on-the-ground deep-dive with Englewood leaders to learn about their revitalization efforts along two major corridors, leveraging shared ownership models, wealth-building strategies and collective action, including a land trust, an urban farmers network, and a member-owned real estate cooperative. The tour will also highlight reparative strategies to address historical housing discriminatory practices around these corridors.
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Brick of Chicago Logan Square Walking Tour
Date: Saturday, May 2
Time: 10:00am – 1:30pm
Capacity: 30 participants
Method of Travel: Chartered bus and walking
Pre-departure meet-up of participants: Departure from conference hotel (room location TBD)
Cost: $38.00 USD
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Logan Square sits at the north end of Chicago’s vast and beautiful boulevard system, a system developed in the late 1800s to dramatically increase Chicago’s green space. A neighborhood initially populated by Danes and Norwegians, Logan Square is filled with some of the most eclectic buildings and details in Chicago. On this tour, we explore the facet of Logan Square’s history and architecture – handcrafted greystones, 19th century churches, opulent 1920s storefronts, and more.
Additional Information: https://www.brickofchicago.com/tours
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National Public Housing Museum Tour
Date: Saturday, May 2
Time: Aproximately 9am-2pm
Capacity: 40 participants
Method of Travel: Walking/Train
Pre-departure meet-up of participants: Departure from conference hotel (room location TBD)
Cost: $38.00 USD
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In 2025, the National Public Housing Museum opened on the site of the former Jane Addams Homes in Chicago, IL. After nearly two decades of collaboration, engagement, fundraising, and scattered-site programming, the museum’s permanent site provides a living history of the nation’s public housing program through interactive, experiential learning exhibits, oral histories from former and current residents, and generative spaces (such as a recording studio and advocacy space) that serve to document contemporary movements around housing justice.
This guided tour provides access to the museum’s permanent and temporary exhibits, as well as the centerpiece of the museum, a tour of historic apartments spotlighting three pivotal moments in public housing history: 1938 (the construction of the Jane Addams Homes under the New Deal’s Public Works Administration), the 1950s (the period between the 1949 and 1954 Housing Acts), and the 1960s (capturing major shifts in Chicago during the passage of the Civil Rights Act and assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.). The tour will be led by guides from the museum, followed by a facilitated discussion with local leaders who have contributed to Chicago’s unique public housing history. Following the discussion, participants will have the option of continuing with a walking tour around the Roosevelt Square mixed-income development and Tri-Taylor neighborhood.
Additional Information: https://nphm.org/
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A special thank you to the tour leaders and the 2026 ICUA Local Host Committee for organizing these tours!
2026 ICUA Local Host Committee
April Jackson (Chair), University of Illinois Chicago
Winifred Curran, DePaul University
Philip Garboden, University of Chicago
Andrew Greenlee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Amanda Kass, DePaul University
Amy Khare, Case Western Reserve University
Stacey Sutton, University of Illinois Chicago
Nik Theodore, University of Illinois Chicago