Legal Opinion
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided February 23, 1998No. 66 C 1459PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ASPEN,-Chief Judge.’
Nearly thirty years ago, United States District Judge Richard B. Austin entered a judgment order against the Chicago Housing Authority (the CHA) with the hopes of correcting the effects of that agency’s unconstitutional public housing site selection and tenant assignment procedures. Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority, 304 F.Supp. 736. (N.D.Ill.1969). Blacks then made up 90% of the CHA’S tenant base, but the CHA had deliberately restricted the number of blacks who could live in the four housing projects which were located in predominantly…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing AuthorityDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1969
- Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing AuthorityDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1969
- Gautreaux v. LandrieuDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1980
- Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing AuthorityDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1997
3Cited by2 opinions
- Dorothy Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority and Terry Peterson v. Daniel E. Levin and the Habitat Company Llc, Receivers-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2007
- Gautreaux, Dorothy v. Chicago HousingCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2007