Almost three dozen national organizations representing fair housing and civil rights advocates are telling President Donald Trump’s administration to back off from reversing discrimination cases in Chicago and other areas of the country.

The letter, written by the National Fair Housing Alliance, the NAACP and more than 30 other organizations and government bodies, was sent to the Department of Housing and Urban Development after a report that the agency is considering dismissing or reversing findings from seven civil rights investigations.

Two of the cases are from Chicago: a finding that led to a binding agreement between HUD and the city over the proposed move of General Iron and another — yet to be settled case — involving the aldermanic prerogative veto power that allegedly allowed l

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