Chicago was home of the Gautreaux housing settlement in the 1970s, a social experiment on the value of breaking up dysfunctional neighborhoods and dispersing inhabitants to communities with intact families, intact schools, intact employment opportunities.
Barton Hill Settlement itself receives funding from Comic Relief to organise multicultural events to help improve and increase social cohesion in the area.
The earlier settlement resolved FTC charges that Google used deceptive tactics and violated its privacy promises when it launched its social network, Google Buzz.