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Basic Info

First Air: April 18, 2024

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 4

Last Episode

Name: We Found the Enemy and It's Not Us

Season: 1, Episode: 4

Air Date: 2024-05-09

Runtime: 57 min

Working-class homeowners on Chicago's west side fought unscrupulous realtors and bank redlining.

Videos

Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation | Series Trailer (Vimeo)

Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation

2024 1 seasons 4 episodes

Overview

How Chicago and its suburbs helped devise the nation’s most sweeping system of racially segregated communities, and how these policies diminished the lives of generations of Black families, creating the vast racial wealth gap that persists to this day.