Alex Polikoff, lead attorney on landmark CHA housing desegregation lawsuit, dies at 98

Alex Polikoff, lead attorney on landmark CHA housing desegregation lawsuit, dies at 98

When asked for a word to describe his father, Daniel Polikoff lands on “selfless.”His father, Alexander Polikoff, was a lawyer and author who devoted his life to fighting for social justice. The pinnacle of his career was the more than five decades of work he performed as lead attorney in the long-running court case of Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority — one of the most important public housing desegregation cases in the country's history t…

Alex Polikoff, lead attorney on landmark CHA housing desegregation lawsuit, dies at 98 – Usa news

When asked for a word to describe his father, Daniel Polikoff lands on “selfless.” His father, Alexander Polikoff, was a lawyer and author who devoted his life to fighting for social justice. The pinnacle of his career was the more than five decades of work he performed as lead attorney in the long-running court case of Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority — one of the most important public housing desegregation cases in the country’s history …