The Area was a close-knit Englewood community and subject of a searing documentary. Has anything changed in Chicago since residents were forced out?

Minneapolis-based sociologist and photographer David Schalliol is interested in the relationship between community, social structure, and place. His project Reckoning with Vacancy concentrated on Chicago's South and West Sides and put him on the path to meet community activist Deborah Payne, the star of his 2018 documentary "The Area."