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- 10 Commandments of a good community tour 2/1/2011
- A how-to guide for putting your neighborhood on the map.
- Who benefits from neighborhood tours? Everyone. 2/1/2011
- Bishop Brazier's gentle way inspires our work 11/4/2010
- LISC/Chicago, its New Communities and all of us who work for stronger neighborhoods mourn the passing of Bishop Arthur M. Brazier (1921-2010), who for a half century was an inspiration to, and force behind, Chicago-style grassroots community development.
- Kennedy-King inspires 63rd St. retail dreams 1/14/2010
- Community leaders and merchants see the college, the anchor for a multi-million dollar revitalization plan, as a catalyst for more retail development in "downtown" Englewood.
- King Legacy project set to begin this fall 4/22/2009
- Construction of the $17 million Dr. King Legacy Apartments is expected to begin this fall on the site where Martin Luther King Jr. stayed during his 1966 visit to Chicago.
- Tax freeze preserves Pilsen buildings 11/13/2008
- The Pilsen Historic Preservation Initiative might be the only effort in the state that aims to preserve affordable housing through historic preservation.
- New video captures 'History from the Mill' 7/6/2008
- The thick gray smoke pumped from factories in South Chicago is long gone, along with the jobs it represented. But a group of South Side residents hope a new video documentary will preserve the stories of the thousands of workers who once made this area hum.
- TRP, school celebrate Day of Dead 12/10/2007
- Students from St. Procopius School marched down 18th Street to El Zocalo plaza on Nov. 2 to celebrate El Dia de los Muertos - The Day of the Dead.
- 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.
- Chicago Lawn teams up to back Cannery 10/16/2007
- To learn more about and show support for a proposed 1 1/2 million-square-foot retail complex in Chicago Lawn, about 50 community leaders assembled at the Churchview Senior Complex on Sept. 26.
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