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  2. Pritzker signs order to promote affordable housing ... - AOL

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    ILLINOIS (WCIA) — Governor JB Pritzker signed an executive order on Wednesday to help expand affordable housing for Illinoisians. The order will enlist agencies throughout the state to explore ...

  3. Sheltered housing - Wikipedia

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    Sheltered housing is self-contained and easy to manage, ranging from a simple bedsit to a large flat or small house. Such schemes are distinct from a nursing home or care home in that the tenants are usually able to look after themselves, are active and are afforded a degree of independence; equally, sheltered housing differs from a retirement community which is generally leasehold (owner ...

  4. Parkway Garden Homes - Wikipedia

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    Parkway Gardens Apartment Homes, built from 1950 to 1955, was the last of Henry K. Holsman's many housing development designs in Chicago. Holsman began designing low-income housing in Chicago in the 1910s when an urban housing shortage developed after World War I.

  5. Illinois Housing Development Authority - Wikipedia

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    This has led to IHDA's role as a principal provider of financing for multi-unit housing projects dedicated to Illinois senior citizens. [ 1 ] To this original core goal were added other missions centering on the facilitation of mortgages for Illinois single-family housing, including housing for households of higher than low-to-moderate income.

  6. Ida B. Wells Homes - Wikipedia

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    Students learn to make scale model aircraft for the war effort in a class at the Ida B. Wells Homes community center (March 1942) Named for African American journalist and newspaper editor Ida B. Wells, [1] the housing project was constructed between 1939 and 1941 as a Public Works Administration project to house black families in the "ghetto", in accordance with federal regulations requiring ...

  7. Timeline of disability rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1988 – The Fair Housing Act was amended to protect people with disabilities from housing discrimination in the areas of rentals, sales, and financing, as outlined in the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The amendment also provided that reasonable modifications had to be made to existing buildings and accessibility had to be constructed into new ...

  8. National Register of Historic Places listings in Illinois

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    Lincoln Courthouse Square Historic District, Logan County East Dubuque School, Jo Daviess County Cave-In-Rock, Hardin County Illinois State Capitol, Sangamon County Dennis Otte Round Barn, Stephenson County Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home, Lee County Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria County General Dean Suspension Bridge, Clinton County

  9. Patterson Township, Greene County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    There were 213 housing units at an average density of 4.47 per square mile (1.73/km 2). The racial makeup of the township was 95.30% White , 0.25% African American , 0.50% Native American , 0.25% Asian , 0.00% Pacific Islander , 0.74% from other races , and 2.97% from two or more races.