Author Archives: Natalie Prochaska

A Life Remembered: David Prochaska

Posted on 05/13/2025 by Natalie Prochaska

My Dad looked the same for the 38 years I knew him: tall and lanky, with a full gray beard and a curly ring of hair on his partially bald head, which he covered with a black hat when he … Continue reading →

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“Old” Urban Renewal in Champaign-Urbana, 1960-1969

Posted on 03/11/2016 by Natalie Prochaska

Forcing people to move from their homes is one of the most intrusive exercises of state power. It is difficult to overstate the combined financial and psychological impacts that the loss of a home has on an individual. It is … Continue reading →

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How Champaign’s Segregated North End was Created 1940 – 1960

Posted on 01/28/2016 by Natalie Prochaska

Housing discrimination does not just happen. It is created. And it results in poor race relations in all other areas of community living. Champaign-Urbana’s housing history is a history of racially restrictive covenants, segregated separate and unequal housing stock and … Continue reading →

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