Paul Street was the Director of Research at the Chicago Urban League between 2000 and 2005.

Street will deliver the Pierre de Vise “Future of Chicago” Lecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Burnham Hall, room 309) on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 between 12 and 1250 P.M.

He is the author of Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004), Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York, NY: Routledge, 2005), and Still Separate, Unequal: Race, Place, and Policy in Chicago (Chicago, 2005)

Street’s next book Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: A Living Black Chicago History is forthcoming in 2007.