"Private restrictions on racial occupancy are a critical element and episode in the history of American inequality. This study draws on newly available full count (parcel-level) data on racial restriction for five Midwestern counties. The research makes four important and overlapping...

Lead Ore and Surveying le Pays des Illinois -- Early Mining and Smelting in North America -- Tracing Eighty Years of Early Mining Associations -- Early Mineralogical Assessments and Emerging Science -- Unhealthy Spaces Fitted Up with Furnaces.

Back to the Future -- The Capital-Labor Accord in Action -- Union Discord in Indiana -- Flipping the Script in Ohio -- The Insider Route in Wisconsin -- A Holding Pattern in the Midwest -- Labor Rights in the Era of Union Decline.

According to participants in the Chicago Fed’s annual Economic Outlook Symposium, the U.S. economy is forecasted to grow at a pace near its historical average in 2013, with inflation remaining largely unchanged and the unemployment rate edging down.

On October 16–17, 2012, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Michigan Bankers Association, and the New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan co-sponsored a symposium that brought together business experts, business owners, policymakers, funders, and bankers to address the issues of...

It is frequently claimed that high ATM surcharges actually attract customers to the banks that impose them, particularly if they operate large ATM networks. By exploiting as "natural experiments" two events associated with the lifting of surcharge bans in Iowa and in the states that neighbor...

The Community Development and Policy Studies division (CDPS) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago hosted the Industrial Cities Initiative Symposium (ICI) on February 28, 2012. More than 50 economists, development professionals, city representatives, and analysts from business, academia, and...

According to participants in the Chicago Fed’s annual Economic Outlook Symposium, the U.S. economy is forecasted to grow at a pace below its historical average in 2012, following a year with an even slower rate of growth; inflation is expected to ease in 2012; and the unemployment rate is...