The Home Front

By Don DeBat The slow-moving, on-going creep of gentrification in Chicago neighborhoods can be disruptive to apartment renters who are being priced out of their long-term family digs. Gentrification can be disruptive, but it is not always a dirty word. Real estate experts say the current problem of gentrification isn’t severe enough to warrant radical remedies that would end up hurting the people the fixes are meant to help. Affordable housing advocates complain that gentrifi

(Above) Humboldt Park, northwest of the Loop. Photo by 606 Vision. By Don DeBat A donnybrook is shaping up on Chicago’s Northwest and...