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UChicago Urban Network virtual event hosts (clockwise from top right): NPR reporter Juana Summers, former HUD Secretary Julián Castro, UChicago Crown School's Franklin Cosey-Gay, Law School's Sharon Fairley

In an unequal America, what should public safety look like?

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UChicago’s Crown Family School dedicates building after founding dean Edith Abbott

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The Dedication of Edith Abbott Hall at the University of Chicago

Man walking in front of Overton Elementary School in Bronzeville, one of many schools shuttered during Chicago's wave of school closings in 2013.

UChicago Press awards top honor to Eve L. Ewing’s ‘Ghosts in the Schoolyard’

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What we’ve learned from a year of COVID-19

Children in Ghana learning about water quality from wells and streams.

$25 million gift to UChicago will support work on global health and social development

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In new book, scholar offers intimate portrait of mass incarceration’s toll on society

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COVID-19 has exposed health disparities. How do we address them before the next pandemic?

Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Landmark gift to UChicago is nation’s largest ever for the study of social work, policy, and practice

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UChicago study offers insight into how Latino families navigate childcare