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645 articles (Last updated May 7, 2012)
Job openings @ LISC Chicago 4/22/2012
The Chicago office of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) seeks an experienced program manager to serve as Program Officer for Economic Opportunities.
Health academy fast-tracks professional training 4/12/2012
NCP partner agency Instituto del Progreso Latino in first year of running $22 million project that eventually will serve 600 students grades 9 through 12
NCP Turns 10 3/14/2012
Citywide and community leaders salute program’s decade of accomplishments
Mid-South Side citizens proactively planning 2/23/2012
Voting is important, but coming out early on a cold Saturday in January to help plan the neighborhood – that’s citizenship
La Casa will be ‘mi casa’ for college students 2/10/2012
Six-story, 27,000-square-foot community-based dormitory aims to attract scholars from Near Southwest Side and beyond
Connecting the dots 1/30/2012
How community planning and organizing gave new life--in the form of green businesses--to the old Cooper Lamps factory in Logan Square.
Mayor hails first fruit of foreclosure fight 1/19/2012
Rahm Emanuel tours West Humboldt rehab and explains the city’s Micro-Market approach
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NCP in the News
BYNC launches early action project for quality of life plan
The Gate, 11/18/2011
Neighbors force last call for liquor store
Chicago Tribune, 3/23/2011
Residents rally behind closing of liquor store
WLS-TV (ABC Channel 7), 3/22/2011
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