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Article: Evanston and Oak Park: Communities still wrestle with integration.
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- The Chicago Reporter
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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Evanston and Oak Park have reputations as progressive communities where integration works.
"Diversity and integration have become a part of the community's fabric," said Paula Haynes, executive director of the Human Relations Commission of Evanston.
"Oak Park is different," said 20-year Oak Park resident John Lukehart, who is also vice president for government and community affairs with the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, one of the nation's largest fair-housing organizations. "They're sort of bucking the trend with regard to communities that should have succumbed to dramatic racial transition."
With 52,524 residents, Oak ...