Chicago’s Enduring Legacy of the Black and Unhoused

This is Part Two of the Chicago Defender’s series Black and Unhoused: How Segregation Fueled a Homegrown Crisis, which is part of the “Healing Illinois” initiative. 
Demetrius France, 55, is just 15 credits shy of earning his Associate’s degree. 
“I started college in the early 1990s and studied electrical engineering and aviation at Florida Memorial University.” 
When his heart led him to Chicago, he hoped to finish college, too. But life and a