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- Fruits, vegetables and community 8/6/2010
- Farmers markets and street festivals liven up NCP neighborhoods.
- 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.
- Englewood food pantries dish it out and more 1/6/2010
- In this economy when people run out of Food Stamps, they’re turning to the food pantries -- and Teamwork Englewood is partnering to help them out.
- 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.
- 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.
- Markets back up, shoppers chow down 6/19/2009
- Farmers markets in Woodlawn, Bronzeville and Englewood will provide fresh produce and a sense of community through the end of October.
- 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.
- Food, fun and a healthier Bronzeville 10/16/2008
- The Bronzeville Community Farmer’s Market is helping to fill the fresh food void, but the Sunday gathering aims to improve community health in more ways than one.
- Woodlawn farmers market sprouts up 6/3/2008
- Woodlawn’s new farmers market drew an unexpected crowd to its May 17 opening, with eager customers arriving at 8 a.m. – an hour before the scheduled start time.
- Slideshow features Woodlawn farmers market 5/21/2008
- Day One of the Woodlawn farmers market on May 17 was a near sell-out for nine vendors, with more vegetable and fruit vendors expected as the market continues each Saturday morning at 61st Street and Blackstone Avenue.
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