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- East Garfield Park Heroes:
Velma Johnson, Barbara Parks 11/16/2009 - The community heroes saluted by the New Communities Program lead agencies and their partners are the ones doing the heavy lifting, often with little acknowledgement or reward.
- Pete’s will bring Fresh to Madison & Western 9/3/2009
- Residents of Chicago’s Near West Side will be able to shop at a full-service grocery store for the first time in four decades when Pete’s Fresh Market opens in 2011.
- Weatherization = Energy Conservation + Jobs 8/5/2009
- Residents of four NCP neighborhoods completed training for entry-level, green-collar jobs earlier this summer under a pilot program launched at the Local Economic Employment Development (LEED) Council.
- Chicagoans take to the Open Streets 7/30/2009
- Thousands of bicyclists, inline skaters, runners and strollers hit the boulevards in five West Side NCP neighborhoods Saturday morning and early afternoon when last October’s twin Sunday Parkways events were reprised all at once under a new name: Open Streets.
- Music program strikes chord in East Garfield 5/25/2009
- The Chicago West Community Music Center has brought in the nationally renowned Berklee College of Music's City Music Program for middle- and high-school students, and those students brought the house down at the International House of Blues on May 27.
- Organizers serve notice for tenants' rights 5/18/2009
- The words on the orange handbills being taped to the front doors of several West Side apartment buildings were loud and clear ... like the message sent by community organizers to landlords undergoing foreclosure.
- West Side grocery contenders make pitches 5/8/2009
- About 200 West Side residents and other stakeholders heard presentations May 6 at Crane High School from representatives of three grocery chains that would like to locate on the three-acre plot at the southeast corner of Madison and Western.
- Stimulate this! NCP provides platform for feds 3/17/2009
- Chicago’s working-class neighborhoods are hard hit by the severe economic recession, but LISC’s NCP neighborhoods are positioning themselves to take full advantage of federal recovery programs headed our way.
- NCP providing platform for $tabilization 2/4/2009
- A Jan. 26 special briefing for NCP leaders showed that while there is no formal relationship between NCP and the soon-to-launch, federally funded program to buy and recycle foreclosed housing, several of LISC/Chicago’s New Communities will be expected to lead the way.
- Sunday Parkways = healthy communities 10/2/2008
- Chicago took a giant step on Sunday, October 5, by banning motorized traffic from a four-mile section of its historic parkways so thousands of pedestrians, cyclists, in-line skaters and others could exercise to their heart's content. And presumably to their heart's benefit.
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