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- 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
- East Garfield cafe to serve side of job training 4/28/2010
- The homeless, formerly incarcerated and other low-income people on Chicago’s West Side soon will have a new point of entry into the job market – and everyone who lives in and around East Garfield Park will have a tasty new place to eat.
- Agencies learn art of the deal 4/25/2008
- As the implementation process carries forward across the 16 communities in NCP, lead agencies and their partners are learning the art of the deal.
- Teamwork Englewood makes a difference 3/21/2008
- Teamwork Englewood has worked to implement two of its quality of life strategies this first quarter of 2008.
- Building an oasis in a food desert 12/10/2007
- Englewood is seeing something different: Vegetables growing in the city through an urban farming program.
- Lawndale renewal continues, step at a time 11/15/2007
- The Biblical prophecy, a favorite hereabouts, foretells the revival of Jerusalem, not North Lawndale … though it well describes what’s happening to the greystones along West Douglas Boulevard.
- Map shows 2003 prisoner "exits" 10/24/2007
- This map shows the number of "exits" by formerly incarcerated people, color-coded by ZIP code and community areas.
- Humboldt debates prisoner re-entry plan 10/19/2007
- Groups that crafted a plan to support ex-offenders in Humboldt Park are still debating its merits. Unveiled in late August, the proposal is an ambitious one that would create a case management system for at least a portion of the 1,000 former prisoners who return to the neighborhood each year.
- Aldermen discuss S. Side redevelopment 9/25/2007
- Aldermen from four wards assembled in the Grand Ballroom on Cottage Grove Avenue, in the heart of Woodlawn, recently to talk about issues related to South Side development, offer some hope, and talk about obstacles to progress.
- March, rally push day of peace in Woodlawn 8/5/2007
- Violence on a Woodlawn playground named in honor of the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago youth whose brutal murder by whites in a small Mississippi town helped ignite the modern civil rights movement, was especially disheartening. But residents are fighting back: they held a peace march and rally in Mamie Till Mobley Park as a step toward bringing the block back and creating a safe space for youth.
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