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- New pillars support Woodlawn renewal 3/29/2013
- Woodlawn is rising again … though the challenges, like gravity, seem never to go away. Its comeback slowed by the Great Recession, its people saddened by the death of a beloved leader, the storied South Side neighborhood is rallying.
- A safe place to play 2/19/2013
- Health and fitness are significant issues in neighborhoods throughout the city, rich and poor alike. In Pilsen, Little Village, Brighton Park, Woodlawn, Chicago Lawn and South Chicago, neighborhood organizations, with LISC Chicago and NCP, will soon embark on another season of PlayStreets, in which streets are temporarily closed to traffic to allow residents to participate in organized fitness activities.
- Altgeld Park, Little Village gain green fields 11/1/2012
- Funders, neighborhood partners work to turn grass and dirt playlots into football, soccer field.
- For an instant, city streets become neighborhood playgrounds 10/12/2012
- PlayStreets periodically closes off streets in Pilsen, Little Village, Brighton Park, Woodlawn, Chicago Lawn and South Chicago to provide safe, supervised space with organized sports, fitness and dancing programs. The aim is to reduce childhood obesity.
- Mid-South Side citizens proactively planning 2/23/2012
- Voting is important, but coming out early on a cold Saturday in January to help plan the neighborhood – that’s citizenship
- Mayor hails first fruit of foreclosure fight 1/19/2012
- Rahm Emanuel tours West Humboldt rehab and explains the city’s Micro-Market approach
- CWF model a national winner 10/13/2011
- Program to help families “earn it, keep it, grow it” wins federal grant competition … and a new branch at Kennedy-King College
- U. of C., South Side NCPs do Grand Rounds 10/10/2011
- Community Grand Rounds program brought a broader definition of health issues to a broad range of the community
- Project maps South Side health, vitality 10/10/2011
- Partnership between University of Chicago, South Side NCPs focuses on healthcare and other services.
- Growing green healthy neighborhoods 9/29/2011
City and regional land-use experts get behind bottom-up, NCP-style planning for neighborhoods full of wide open spaces
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