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Image by Brooklyn Museum via Flickr By LISC Chicago’s New Communities Program Enjoy three short tours of South Chicago online, thanks to YoChicago.com and NewHomeNotebook.com.
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“You have cancer!” One in every two men and more than one in three women in America will hear these dreaded words sometime during their lifetime. When someone hears these words, their life changes instantly and they need to know what to do and where to turn. Scott Seaman and Charlene McMann-Seaman – who...
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By Rachael Koetsier June 1, 2009 – Hyde Park on Chicago’s South Side is generally considered an upscale community with lakefront property, moderate-to-high-income households and the Midwest home of President Barack Obama. But as the economy worsens, Hyde Park demonstrates that even a neighborhood with a median household income of $44,142 is not immune...
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Story by: Regan Crisp May 4, 2009 – Chicago homeowners have suffered greatly from the mortgage crisis. According to the Woodstock Institute, property foreclosures in Chicago increased by 85 percent between 2005 and 2007, and aren’t expected to peak until late 2009. Many of the hardest hit neighborhoods in the city are also receiving...
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Feb. 26, 2009 – Credit experts active in LISC Chicago’s New Communities Program Foreclosure Response Fund say they’re optimistic President Barack Obama’s plan for modifying bad mortgages will begin to cure Chicago’s alarming epidemic of home foreclosures. They do have one regret: Something like this plan should have been implemented two or three years...
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by Ed Finkel of New Communities Program. Aug. 29, 2008 – It’s a summer Thursday evening in the basement of the 11th District Police Station, and aerobics instructor Keith Spurlin is cranking up the R&B on a boom box to get the room full of about 20 adult participants moving and grooving. WalkForce members...
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by Rita Boland Ray Rondinelli turned 27 in December. He lives at home with his parents, and spends most weekends following his favorite band around the Midwest. He hits the local bars three nights a week and is in two intramural softball leagues. His mom does his laundry sometimes, and puts dinner on the...
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Submitted on Wed, 02/21/2007 – 16:24. Story by Jessica Wylie Shirley Newsome shakes her head as she watches children run on the grass, playing on a neighbor’s property and the street corner instead of using the new park down the street. She’s astonished at how some of the children in her North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood...
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