Structuring Inequality : How Schooling, Housing, and Tax Policies Shaped Metropolitan Development and Education

Contents
Introduction: Structuring Inequality in Chicagoland
Part I. Forging Metropolitan Inequality
	1. The State Policies That Define Localism, Public Schools, and Fragmentation in the Suburbs
	2. Chicago’s Postwar Development Agenda: Using Schools, Land-Use Tools, and Public Subsidies to Protect White Property
Part II. Fighting over Metropolitan Inequality
	3. Fighting Chicago School Segregation: The Battles to Define Northern Segregation, Government Responsibility, and Public Priorities
	4. Varieties of School Desegregation: Defining State Responsibility and Protecting White Interests in the Fragmented Suburbs
	5. The Fight to Open the Suburbs: Fair-and Affordable-Housing Advocacy and the Suburban Defense of Metropolitan Inequality
	6. School-Finance and Property-Tax Reform: Trying to Expand State Fiscal Responsibility and Equity in Local Finance
Part III. Forgetting Metropolitan Inequality
	7. The Policy Origins and Effects of Fiscal Crisis: Taxation, Austerity, and Business-First Economic Development in Chicagoland
	8. From Equity to Measurable Standards: Reshaping Public Policy and Forgetting Inequality in a Neoliberal Age
Conclusion: What Does This History Mean for the Present and the Future?
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Source Abbreviations
Notes
Index