Community seeks indigenous development
Humboldt Park is a low- to middle-income, mixed African-American and Hispanic neighborhood that has begun to show significant signs of gentrification on its eastern end, east of Humboldt Park itself -- although that may have slowed in the past few years as the housing market has cooled.
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News and articles
NCP groups gain voice in school closings 1/28/2013
Spurred in part by the threat of school closings, groups in neighborhoods served by NCP are organizing like never before to influence district decision-making.
New directory points ex-offenders in the right direction 7/27/2012
Manual covers basic needs, where to find them in community with high return rate
Treasury official: Chicago “at forefront” of development efforts 7/20/2012
Don Graves, deputy assistant secretary for small business, community development and housing policy, tours two LISC-supported developments and talked with senior scribe John McCarron about the future of community development.
- Mayor hails first fruit of foreclosure fight 1/19/2012
- "Que Viva!" 9/18/2011
- Points of light amid foreclosure funk 8/2/2011
- Supermarket efforts starting to bear fruit 5/31/2011
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