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Member spotlight: Garfield Park Community Council
Steven Vance, Chicago Cityscape, Mar 27, 2019
Allen Bosbyshell is an AmeriCorps/VISTA staffer at the Garfield Park Community Council and answered…
These are the 14 candidates running for Chicago mayor
Chicago Tribune Staff, Jan 27, 2019
Here's what you need to know about each of them.
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…
Rising housing prices in distressed neighborhoods foster new worries about gentrification
Corilyn Shropshire, Chicago Tribune, Dec 20, 2018
Some parts of Chicago that historically have seen a pattern of disinvestment are experiencing a…
Rent on the rise: How high will rent in Chicago climb?
Deborah Bayliss, Chicago Defender, Jul 11, 2018
Denitha Polk, like many other Chicago residents with low- to-moderate income, is challenged with…
Enrolling in energy savings programs
Illinois Science and Education Foundation blog, Jan 5, 2017
Housing Counselor LaShone Kelly talks about the benefits of enrolling in energy education and…
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…
Big Data + Large Lots = Fast Start for City Program
Jul 8, 2014
GPCC Board Member Marie Cole talks with LISC Chicago about the City's Large Lots Program as it…
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…
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…
Neighborhood Stabilization: 1 Year Later A Year in the Life of a Foreclosure Rehab
Ash-har Quraishi, WTTW/ Chicago Tonight, Aug 17, 2011
Over the past year and a half, Melvin Bailey, head of the Community Male Empowerment Project, has…
Residents, city officials give problem liquor store the boot, encourage healthy foods in East Garfield Park
Mike Tomas, Mar 29, 2011
Local residents take a stand to oust troubled liquor store.
New houses, local jobs make for better neighborhoods
Bill Healy, Mar 7, 2011
Developer Melvin Bailey is putting local people to work, renovating foreclosed East Garfield Park…
On West Walnut Street the scenery looks a little brighter
Bill Healy, Feb 17, 2011
The transformation of empty, foreclosed East Garfield Park houses into affordable, for-sale homes…

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