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The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) has announced a rehab project involving a historic Edgewater building that will create 104 units for seniors and provide about 214 jobs in Chicago. Funds for this project are expected to come from an $18.3 million competitive grant from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, aimed at providing energy efficient, green...
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Public housing, a term coined in the 1930’s, is home to millions of faceless people every year with untold stories. The National Public Housing Museum, due to open in the Fall of 2012 at 1322 W. Taylor Street, in the heart of Little Italy, in Chicago, is the first cultural institution in the United...
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UPDATE: Seward Park Takes First Windy City Sluggers Softball Championship Title Since mid-summer, eight city teams, made up of CHA 13- to 15-year-old boys and girls, competed for a spot in the Windy City Sluggers League playoffs. Qualifying from the South Division were teams from Carver Park and Taylor Park, while Seward Park and...
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For decades, public housing has been an issue across America. “Projects” have been designed under one format: high rise, brown, and cheap looking. This way of thinking and designing is one of the many reasons why these cheap buildings have deteriorated and vanished. But it seems that the Dearborn Homes have finally got the...
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Residents of the Lathrop Homes public housing project ramped up their campaign to save the development on Wednesday, with leaders announcing that talks between a residents’ committee and the Chicago Housing Authority have come to a standstill. Robert Davidson, president of the Lathrop Homes Local Advisory Council, said the CHA wants to move forward...
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By Lorraine Swanson, Editor, Lake Effect News In a packed auditorium at Swedish Covenant Hospital, a North Side audience snacked on chocolate Macadamia nut cookies donated by a local Costco and got a few lessons in gangbanging. Much of the information presented at last week’s community gang awareness seminar hosted by Cook County State’s...
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