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- Raising up teachers in your backyard 11/21/2011
'Grow Your Own' grads can tell students: “I went to this school. I sat in your seat.”
- Points of light amid foreclosure funk 8/2/2011
Failed mortgages continue to dog Chicago neighborhoods, but new or improved programs show promise
- NCP and the 2010 Census 3/3/2011
Most shrank, some steadied, but all NCP neighborhoods can learn much from 2010 Census data
- Hot town enjoys Hoops, markets, festivals 8/6/2010
- Summer in the city has meant no shortage of outdoor activities in NCP neighborhoods.
- Microbusinesses survive in tough times 7/23/2010
- Microbusinesses employing no more than five people in NCP neighborhoods are fighting the economic tide to survive and even thrive amidst recession with help from small business loans from non-traditional sources.
- Little Village pocket parks on the grow 4/28/2010
- NCP lead agency Enlace Chicago has been partnering with Archeworks, New Life Church and community members to transform empty lots into green spaces for the Little Village community called "pocket parks."
- Little Village Heroes: Ernie Alvarez, Rudy Sosa 11/16/2009
- The community heroes saluted by the New Communities Program lead agencies and their partners are the ones doing the heavy lifting, often with little acknowledgement or reward.
- Plaza gets new face, residents get new space 10/30/2009
- Little Village’s Manuel Perez, Jr. Memorial Plaza has become a little brighter with the unveiling of two murals and a mosaic created by students as part of Enlace Chicago’s Community Schools Program.
- 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.
- High school senior speaks out against violence 6/24/2009
- We are all here today because we believe that we can make a change in the violence in our community. We can’t tolerate any longer these struggles that we have, especially against each other.
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