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Archer Courts

Archer Courts Apartments Chinatown. Photo Credit: Sarah Derer
Posted inHousing Issue 2021

The Displacement of Chinatown’s Low-Income Residents is Aggravated by COVID-19

by Yilun Cheng February 3, 2021May 6, 2021

t the intersection of Cermak Road and Wentworth Avenue, a stately red gate with a hand-painted inscription that reads “The world is for all” welcomes visitors to Chinatown.  Dim sum restaurants, grocery stores, and Chinese medicine shops line the streets to serve the nearly 7,000 people living in the area. But the very thing that […]

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