de Vise Papers Available in University Archives
The papers and research files of urban sociologist Pierre de Vise are available in University Archives.
The late researcher was known for declaring Chicago to be America's most segregated city in his 1967 demographic study, Chicago's Widening Color Gap. de Vise, who died in 2004, earned a doctorate degree in public policy analysis at UIC and taught in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. He later joined the faculty at Roosevelt University, where he retired in 1989.
The de Vise collection, which spans from 1965 to 2001, contains 114 file boxes of articles, book chapters, working papers, reports and speeches, as well as graphs, data, and illustrations he gathered as part of his research.
The collection is available for use by researchers and the public. It includes materials on segregation, poverty, urban planning, demographic trends, and the health care system in Chicago; urban and suburban economies; and the conditions of cities across the country. A finding aid is available online., field_56ba6f8fdb00c