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'Shops & Lofts' moves forward -- with rentals 2/3/2010
Mixed-income development at 47th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue in Bronzeville will feature 140 apartments, about 48,000 square feet of retail.
Foreclosure fight goes neighbor-to-neighbor 11/26/2009
SWOP, NHS and Greater Southwest are partnering with Bank of America on a new, one-on-one strategy to reach and assist at-risk homeowners.
Chicago Rising 11/5/2009
From the White House to our house, urban leaders vow neighborhoods will lead national economic recovery.
People Power makes partners of SWOP, BofA 7/10/2009
“Bank of America!” 200 demonstrators in Chicago Lawn repeatedly inveighed. “Keep our families in their homes!” They helped to spur negotiation of a new partnership between the community, led by Southwest Organizing Project, and the nation’s largest commercial bank.
Partnerships cause others to give back 12/16/2008
The Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation (GADC) has been able to cultivate more than 80 existing partnerships to help meet its goal of fostering and promoting the revitalization of the community.
GADC hosts citywide foreclosure briefing 10/31/2008
It was all about forging partnerships for the fight against foreclosures as more than 40 activist lawyers, mortgage counselors and community leaders gathered in Auburn Gresham on the Monday before Halloween to share tactics and strategies.
West Haven updates quality of life plan 9/23/2008
One of the three communities that participated in the pilot New Communities Initiative that preceded NCP, West Haven reconvened its task force in 2006-07 to update its plan.
Communities help police retool website 7/23/2008
A project among threeChicago neighborhoods and the Chicago Police Department has established a community-friendly website that allows instant and anonymous communications between residents and police.
'Healing the Hood' draws 2,000 in 3rd year 7/9/2008
Little Village's annual “Healing the Hood” community celebration – established three years ago in an effort to stem gang violence – drew its biggest crowd ever earlier this summer.
'Hoops in the Hood' tips off for 2008 6/19/2008
The first of seven Hoops in the Hood basketball leagues got underway on June 13 as a new generation of youngsters entered what has become a Friday night tradition.

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