The Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation (GADC) newsletter is available online. Some of the events and news highlighted in this issue includes news that the Community Green Jobs initiative designed to enhance the existing litter-free program will be supported with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to create 10 eco-friendly jobs. GADC’s Green Ambassadors...
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By LISC, Chicago’s New Communities Program
What a neighborhood can be is largely a function of what its residents and the people who work there do. On a day-to-day basis, their actions – organizing block clubs, mentoring the children of incarcerated parents, providing shelter to homeless people, tending a neighbor’s garden – may not be heroic in...
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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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