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Robert Mier was a professor of urban planning and public administration at University of Illinois Chicago and a leading expert on urban economic issues. Mier founded the University of Chicago’s Center for Urban Economic Development in 1978. During Mayor Harold Washington’s first term, Mier became the City of Chicago’s director of economic development and created “Chicago Works Together,” a city plan for development that became a national model for other large cities.
One morning he pulled over as my mom was walking down Bell Avenue. He rolled down his window and said to her, “We’re watching you Mrs. Mier.” While a member of the Washington administration, Mier helped to broker the deal for lights and night games at Wrigley Field.Shortly after his historic victory, Washington asked my father to serve on his commission of economic development. Washington later moved him across the street into City Hall, where my father became the city’s director of development, a position that he held until he was fired on Mayor Richard M. Daley’s first day in office in 1989.
Chicago is now a very different city. The brick two-flats in my old neighborhood that used to have two or three families living in them have been gutted and converted to $2 million single-family mansions. The streets around Bell School that were once patrolled by the Simon City Royals are now patrolled by people pushing expensive baby carriages. Many working-class north siders have been pushed to the northwest side or out to the suburbs.
Robert Mier at a presentation with Mayor Washington to discuss the city’s 1984 development plan “Chicago Works Together.”The Johnson administration should prepare to be attacked in the media for every attempt to provide affordable housing to the poor. During the Washington years, common attacks involved red-baiting , and constant accusations that the city was “putting development on hold” .
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