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Dennis Green, Englewood First Responders

Dennis Green is quick to confess that when he was younger he was “part of the problem” in the Englewood neighborhood where he grew up. Now he strives to be…

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Dennis Green, Englewood First Responders

Something Good in Englewood

Something Good In Englewood was an important resource hub for families in Englewood long before it became official in 2018. The community-based organization grew out of Little Angels Learning Center, an early learning facility,…

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Something Good in Englewood

Sports Alliance Renewed for Fourth Year

The Chicago Sports Alliance, a collaboration between the Chicago Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox that began in 2017, announced it will move forward for a fourth year to…

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Heartland Alliance and the McCormick Foundation Launch the Chicago Community Data Portal

Free online dashboard curates data sets from leading sources in one portal, offering neighborhood snapshots of economic opportunity, education, and health and wellness and saving time and resources for nonprofits,…

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Unifying Communities in Uncertain Times

When the COVID-19 statewide stay-at-home order was put in effect in March 2020, the team at Central States SER, a workforce and education organization in Little Village, had to think…

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Joseline, Central States SER

Chicago’s Peace Outreach Continues as Gun Violence Takes No Break

Amidst the continual backdrop of COVID-19, Chicago’s plague of gun violence has raged on, and over several weekends spiked higher than previous years. Almost no other group is seeing the…

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New Restorative Justice Court in North Lawndale

Opened in August 2017 in the North Lawndale community, the first ever Restorative Justice Community Court (RJCC) is an innovative collaboration between community-based service providers and the Circuit Court of…

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Reclaiming Southwest Chicago

Guest Blog by Chris Brown, Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) When 500 people gathered at St. Adrian Church in 2017 to announce the next phase of the Reclaiming Southwest Chicago Campaign…

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Stop and Frisk Only Hurts Black and Brown Communities

Patrick Sharkey, in his book An Uneasy Peace argues that Stop and Frisk policies did much to damage if not ruin any trusting relationship between police and the communities most impacted by…

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Addressing Intentional Violence and its Root Causes

Guest Blog by Kate Dohner, Senior Writer, University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences Development Violence in Chicago has become a national headline: “More Than 100 People Were Shot in…

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University of Chicago southside trauma center