Business and Professional People for the Public Interest records

Descriptive Summary

Title: Business and Professional People for the Public Interest records
Dates: 1938-2003
Creator
Creator: Gautreaux, Dorothy, Jordan, Jorellene, Polikoff, Alexander
Creator: Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
Creator
Size: 204 linear ft.
Size: 30 soft computer discs.
Language: Material is in English unless otherwise noted.

Conditions for Access

Portions of this collection are unprocessed. This collection has been assessed for access and can be requested except for noted restrictions. Researchers using this collection will need to sign the Access to Unprocessed Collections form. For listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available).

Conditions Governing Use

Donor retains copyright and literary rights to materials deeded in 1977.

Preferred Citation

A common citation for archives is as follows: Item, Folder number and/or title, Box number, Collection title, ID number, Repository name, location.

Custodial History

Gift of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (M1976.0038; M1984.0171; 2010.0015).

Scope and Content

Working files, including correspondence, memoranda, legal documents, and topical files of the Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPPPI), a public interest law firm engaged in litigation against police spying, segregation in public housing, industrial pollution, and other issues. Materials include files of attorney Alexander Polikoff on the Gautreaux case against the Chicago Housing Authority for allegedly building subsidized apartments solely in low-income African American neighborhoods and other Chicago housing discrimination cases; files on the case of Jurellene Jordan against the Veterans Administration for allegedly failing to monitor and regulate its Home Guaranty Mortgage program resulting in rapid racial resegregation in the Marquette Park neighborhood of Chicago; and files on efforts to regulate safety at nuclear reactors in Illinois, particularly the Braidwood reactor operated by Commonwealth Edison in Zion (Ill.).

Partial finding aid describing processed material is available uopn request. Please email research@chicagohistory.org for access.

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