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- South Chicago Heroes:
Joann Podkul and Kevin Murphy
Zebedee and Tonya Rivera 11/17/2009 - 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.
- Weatherization = Energy Conservation + Jobs 8/5/2009
- Residents of four NCP neighborhoods completed training for entry-level, green-collar jobs earlier this summer under a pilot program launched at the Local Economic Employment Development (LEED) Council.
- Artist draws out developmentally disabled 7/22/2009
- Chicago artist Monika Kimrey's work with the developmentally disabled at South Chicago Parents and Friends is already opening new horizons.
- South Chicago: A place of steely resolve 7/8/2009
- South Chicago is no stranger to hard times, so the economic face-smacking now felt across the city smarts a little less down here. Other neighborhoods could even learn a thing or two from this community about how to cope with loss and nurture hope.
- Download brochures for Burnham Centennial tours 5/20/2009
- Here's where to find the brochures and maps for the six neighborhoods that participated in the Burnham Centennial Bold Plans Big Dreams Community Showcase.
- Southeast Chicago goes from steel to green 5/6/2009
- Where steel once was king, a green economy is beginning to bloom. The Second Annual Green Summit in South Chicago, scheduled for Saturday, offers area residents a snapshot of currently available green, eco-friendly and healthy initiatives designed to enhance the quality of life.
- Stimulate this! NCP provides platform for feds 3/17/2009
- Chicago’s working-class neighborhoods are hard hit by the severe economic recession, but LISC’s NCP neighborhoods are positioning themselves to take full advantage of federal recovery programs headed our way.
- NCP providing platform for $tabilization 2/4/2009
- A Jan. 26 special briefing for NCP leaders showed that while there is no formal relationship between NCP and the soon-to-launch, federally funded program to buy and recycle foreclosed housing, several of LISC/Chicago’s New Communities will be expected to lead the way.
- South Chicago toasts soon-to-open senior center 11/21/2008
- More than 100 South Chicago community leaders and residents gathered on a sun-splashed morning Oct. 29 for a “topping off” ceremony at the Victory Centre senior complex at 3251 E. 92nd St.
- Video: South Chicago teens install mural 11/13/2008
- Teenagers from South Chicago worked together to create and install a 90-foot-long mural that addresses gangs, violence and local history. After months of work on a project that started in May of 2007, the mural panels were glued to a wall at 91st Street and Commercial Avenue on Saturday, November 1.
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