Citizens Action Program (Chicago, Ill.) records collected by Father Dubi

  • Creator Names Citizens Action Program (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Title Citizens Action Program (Chicago, Ill.) records collected by Father Dubi [manuscript], 1969-1975.
  • Physical description 18 linear ft. (18 boxes)
  • Collection summary Correspondence, newsletters, and topical files of the Chicago branch of the Citizens Action Program, an activist organization initially named the Campaign Against Pollution. Topics include environmental pollution (1969-1971) and, after the organization's change of name in 1971, social and political inequalities at the Chicago neighborhood level, attacking real estate tax breaks for wealthy corporations, fighting the proposed crosstown expressway, and advocating banking reform to require financial institutions to invest in their host neighborhoods, avoid red-lining, and not transfer capital to Loop and suburban projects.
  • Acquisition information This material was collected by Father Leonard Dubi, a co-chair of CAP, and donated in 1995 (1995.0262).
  • Location of Other Archival Materials Note
    • Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the Citizens Action Program (Chicago, Ill.) records; the Citizens Action Program records collected by Paul Booth; the South Side Anti-Crosstown Coalition (Chicago, Ill.) records; and other social action manuscript collections; and the Citizens Action Program photograph collection (1995.0262).
    • The University of Illinois at Chicago, Daley Library Special Collections Dept. also holds a collection of Citizens Action Program records.
  • Names
    • Citizens Action Program (Chicago, Ill.) Archives.
    • Campaign Against Pollution (Chicago, Ill.)
    • Dubi, Leonard.
    • Dubi, Leonard.
    • Citizens Action Program (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Subjects
    • Banks and banking Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Community organization Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Crosstown Expressway (Chicago, Ill. : Proposed)
    • Discrimination in mortgage loans Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Environmentalists Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Express highways Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Housing Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Political activists Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Pollution Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Real property and taxation Illinois Chicago 20th century.
  • Geographic coverage
    • Chicago (Ill.) Politics and government 1951-
    • Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century.
  • Genre
    • Correspondence. aat
    • Newsletters. aat
  • Geographic name United States Illinois Cook County Chicago.