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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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Laying a stable foundation 2/25/2010

Barely a year after the city got word it was getting $55.2 million in first-round federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funding, the City of Chicago and its non-profit program manager, Mercy Portfolio Services (MPS), have created a nimble system for buying and recycling hundreds of foreclosed homes and apartment buildings.


Humboldt Park Heroes:
Doris Brown, Freddy Calixto
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.


Clinicians, health organizers challenge feds 11/9/2009

Community-level wellness programs fueled by public-health research and organizing bring great benefits to low- to moderate-income communities like Humboldt Park, said panelists at a recent day-long symposium at Association House, sponsored by the Greater Humboldt Park Community of Wellness.


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Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation

www.bickerdike.org

2550 W. North Ave. Chicago, IL 60647 (773) 278-5669 phone (773) 278-5673 fax

Joy Aruguete
Executive director

Christy Prahl
Program manager - NCP

Keith Muhammad
Outreach worker - NCP

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March 2010
Tue 16 Foreclosure workshops 6 pm –8 pm
Tue 16 South Chicago Advisory Committee 6 pm –7:30 pm
Tue 16 Public Health Boot Camp information session 10 am –12 pm

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