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Affordable housing developer tapped for East Garfield Park project
Danny Ecker, Crain's Chicago Business, May 16, 2019
The firm Preservation of Affordable Housing plans a $22.3 million environmentally friendly…
Hatching New Businesses: How Accion & The Hatchery are Supporting Entrepreneurship
Kevin Beerman, Chicago Ideas Blog, May 16, 2019
EAST GARFIELD PARK — A few years back, Accion Serving Illinois and Indiana, a nonprofit…
Cooking Up New Businesses in The Hatchery
Brad McConnell, CEO of Accion Serving Illinois and Indiana, for The Aspen Institute, Apr 10, 2019
While headlines tout a booming economy and low unemployment, many parts of the country still have…
Researchers launch plan to cut Chicago death gap in half by 2030
Dan Williams, CGTN America, Apr 2, 2019
The sprawling West Side area of Chicago is just a few miles away from the city’s downtown.…
The Hatchery’s Packed Valentine’s Market Proves ‘There Is A Lot Of Buying Power On The West Side’
Sarah Conway, Block Club Chicago, Feb 14, 2019
Of the 32 vendors at the market, 80 percent are West Side entrepreneurs. And lots of the small…
Leaders do post-mortem on Hatchery's outreach efforts
Igor Studenkov, Austin Weekly News, Feb 13, 2019
During Jan. 24 City Bureau event, experts dissected what went right, wrong with The Hatchery's…
Chicago Neighborhoods Front and Center at Forum for Mayoral Candidates
Linda Lutton, WBEZ, Jan 13, 2019
Hundreds of Chicagoans from Belmont Cragin to the southeast side packed an auditorium at the…
More than 1,000 people pack UIC's mayoral candidate forum focused on improving all Chicago neighborhoods
Bill Ruthart, Chicago Tribune, Jan 12, 2019
A standing-room-only crowd of more than 1,000 people packed the University of Illinois at Chicago…
New food and beverage incubator opens in Garfield Park
Jessica D'Onofrio, ABC7, Dec 6, 2018
One of the largest food incubation spaces in the country is open for business in the East Garfield…
The Collateral Damage of $1 Vacant Lots
Nona Tepper, Chicago Mag, Nov 20, 2018
Chicago’s Large Lots Program seems like a good idea. But the reality has been complicated.
Harnessing the Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
Robin Lee Greiner, Harvard Business School, Mar 28, 2018
We all know that small business is the growth engine of any economy. This is even more true for…
Chicago Tribune - Residents Get Behind $1 City Lot Program
Jan 7, 2015
GPCC Executive Director Mike Tomas talks about the success of the Large Lots Program in East…
East Garfield Park $1 Lot Program Begins July 1 2014
Jul 1, 2014
$1 Lot Program begins July 1 in East Garfield Park.
City's vacant adjacent lot purchase program coming to Garfield Park
May 6, 2014
The City of Chicago talks about the success of its pilot program to sell vacant lots for $1 to…
Chicago Artists Month: October 25-27, 2013
Sep 18, 2013
Chicago Artist Month: October 2013
What started as one Garfield Park garden blooms into so much more
BY KARA SPAK Staff Reporter for the Chicago Suntimes, Aug 20, 2013
What started as one Garfield Park garden blooms into so much more
Garfield Council Aims for Safer Kedzie
John McCarron, Oct 31, 2012
Question: How do you announce to the neighborhood that an inner-city commercial corner with a dicey…
White House Award for Safer Foundation
Mike Tomas, Sep 1, 2011
Diane Williams, CEO of East Garfield Park's Safer Foundation, was awarded a Champion of Change…
Inspiration Kitchens: More Than Just a Local Eatery
Aug 4, 2010
Cutting edge social enterprise, Inspiration Corporation, has landed in East Garfield Park. They…
The Growing Business: Planting Seeds in a Community
Malik Elliott, Apr 9, 2010
It was a spring afternoon in 2006, when the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance convened a…
Hearing from the ’hoods
John McCarron, Mar 16, 2010
From the Chicago Neighborhood Stabilization Program: Chicago is off to a fast and effective start…
Business Capacity Seminars Planned Throughout the Year
Mar 1, 2010
The Feb 18th business capacity seminar has created quite a buzz among the local business base. Read…

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